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[Hans Hates]

Ack! I got too dizzy to play any further on level 7, and I'm not even very prone to motion sickness compared to other people I know. It was pretty fun up to that point though, and starting to get tough enough to feel like I'm accomplishing something in getting through a level.

[Do you know De Wae]

I checked out the high score screen and all I've got to say is...
Knuckles, mah bruddah, YOU KNOW DE WEY!!1!

jeremy7986 responds:

"We want to see De Wae in your buttocks."

[Gardener]

The game itself was nice so far... except for one incredibly annoying thing. Please, please, do not make the player mash random keys to fill in diary entries. Just make them pop up. I quit playing simply because of that. Srsly. Will come back and play more if/when that gets changed.

[Atomic Alice]

Oh shit don't tell me mah fan levels are lost 4evar? My compy that I made them on and the email account I sent them from both died ;_;

They would totes kik everonez asses :3

MakeGamesHappen responds:

Yeah. I am sorry. We halted developement on the game because Flash was kind of a bad choice, but was what I was most proficient at the time. I am learning WebGL and OpenGL. With the intention of re-making the game with an awesome rendering engine.

The goal is to be able to have all the original level design data compatible with the new engine.
So if that happens I'll try and dig up your old levels.

-John Mark

[Musk Mining Industries]

Dude no way are asteroid mining spaceships that hard to control IRL!

Sometimes a hard game seems like it's hard because of cheap moves on the programmer's part that just makes people want to ragequit. Somehow, this game ended up being as hard as staying awake through an English class but still just made me want to keep playing instead of ragequitting and eventually start to git gud. But then I ran into that frickin monstrostiy of an alien anvil on a pendulum that just bent me over whenever I tried to pick up the miners on the third level, and I've had enough of that tormentor for now. I might come back sometime later to see if I can figure out how to deal with that abomination tho.

colburt187 responds:

What happened was they designed the ships on earth then when they got to planet Musk the gravity was nothing like they thought it was, but they had blown the budget.

[Color Combat]

This was a nice little game. I played through it as the first guy at least on normal level, and after I got the hang of blocking and counterattacking I could (usually) pin the opponent in the corner and beat the shit out of him, so I say you have every right to respond to people whining "it's too hard" by saying "nah u jus sux, git gud r git lost".

There's definitely room for improvement with, well, pretty much everything from graphics to sound/music and even gameplay (maybe prevent pinning someone in a corner from being so overpowered) but it's still a pretty good game for what it is. On my second playthrough as a different guy the game bugged out and I was stuck crouching and sliding right while the opponent didn't do anything, not sure if that's a bug on my end or in the code (using Chrome on Windows with Flash 27.0.0.187).

[Midnight Spooks 2]

OMG at the reviews complaining that the clock is wrong!

You, good sir (or madam), get five stars as compensation for such ridiculousness. Even though the puzzles were definitely on the easy side this time around. Loved the ending :3

[Y.A.A.G. 0: The Demo]

It's difficult to give a review on such a short demo. There are a few important things that a great game in this genre should accomplish. First, the gameplay should be a fun challenge -- either solving puzzles to progress like in a point-and-click game, or if you introduce combat mechanics then finding creative ways to defeat opponents (other than just picking attack until you're low on health and then healing). Second, the game should create an immersive fantasy world and storyline (preferably branching and non-linear) for the player to experience, as if its main job were to tell a story and the player is a participant. Sort of along the lines of Undertale or Ouroboros or Hyptosis games or something.

With a demo this short, it would be impossible to tell an engaging story. And I have to agree with timeattack that getting washed and dressed and eating breakfast seems more like a chore than a fun gameplaying experience; more like a point-and-click game where you just click randomly on things and eventually make the story progress just by trying everything instead of by figuring things out. So I can't honestly say I think it's heading toward being a great game, but at least I hope I explained why I'm thinking that way and what big-picture things you could focus on to try to improve.

Marcgal responds:

Thank you for you opinion & review.

Though, I must say I'm surprised people find it non-obvious how to get dressed and washed and have to resort to click randomly on everything. I thought I've put enough hints in the dialogue? I thought if my mom with little prior experience with games could, for most part, figure it out on her own, then guys on NG should have little problem with this?

I still wonder where exactly was my mistake here...

[Gladiator Combat Arena]

Graphics are nice, but the gameplay is just random numbers with no skill or strategy or anything? No thanks.

RHMGames responds:

Thanks for comment, Yes, that's the style of the game. :)

[CELLAR]

I'm not entirely sure what to think about this game and how it would appeal to a player. It's sort of like a sokoban but with a goal of just reaching an exit, which is not a challenge at all in any of the levels so not fun purely as a puzzler. It also sort of has aspects of an art game, but what's the artistic message? There's a guy trapped in a puzzle who thinks he can get out but he really can't... maybe if it were extended to IRL in some transcendental way of making people reflect on how their own lives are a futile attempt to achieve an impossible goal, or can be perceived as such unless they realize what's really important in life, or some other such philosophical drivel that makes people feel like they have a deeper understanding of things then I could appreciate it as an art game. Overall, I agree with Ewelupp, Thegamingtrickster, and Mekka23 -- it could benefit from harder puzzles (even if you're going for more of an art game), a more gripping storyline and message (even if you turn it into a more challenging puzzler), and the best graphics / music / sounds you can muster.