3p0ch's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Golf Adventures! 2]

That last level set made me forgive you for the brutality of the mechanical zone :3

If you'd like to add NewGrounds medals for the achievements or a NG leaderboard, here's how: https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1211786

Aleksander-Sats responds:

Yeah, Mechanical Mayhem was made to test what you've learned so far, so in return the next one for your effort is more fun and easier! :)

Thanks for mentioning that post though! I will keep it in mind

[ULTRAFUN]

I ran into some serious performance issues - like other users I frequently got "WebGL context lost, please reload the page" messages after the game loaded and before it started. Every once in a while it does start, but when it did there was lag and the music was extremely choppy.

There might be an issue that's being pointed to by some odd errors showing up in the browser's Developer Tools - Console window (if you play the game from NG, press Ctrl+Shift+I or pick it from your browser's menu and go to the Console tab to see them). It makes me think that an autoload script might be acting up, but you might be able to make more sense of it than I can since I don't have the Godot source code. If you want me to take a look at it when I get a chance then msg me.

Other tricks I've found in Godot that might help with performance if you're not already doing it this way are 1) for most of my big scenes (like game levels or main menu or stuff) I'll make an autoload that holds the entire scene as a variable like
levels_autoload.gd:
var level1 = preload("res://levels/level1.tscn")
etc...
and then in other scripts instead of using get_tree().change_scene() you would use get_tree().change_scene_to(LevelsAutoload.level1) and it should noticeably reduce if not eliminate the stuttering and lag when you switch scenes.

2) For audio, maybe try compressing the music files in Audacity. If they're in stereo then mix them down to mono (Ctrl-A to select all, then Tracks -> Mix -> Stereo down to Mono) and then do File -> Export -> as OGG with the Quality slider set to 0.

3) The other thing you could do with audio is significantly more complex, but if you're up for it I described the process in a post at https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1148893

Hopefully it can get running more smoothly because now it's kinda barely playable for me.

Kwongo responds:

Thank you so much for the detailed feedback, it's really helpful :) I am still new to using Godot with HTML5 so this comes in really handy. I'm exploring some more options too, such as converting the game to use GLES2 instead of GLES3, which might improve compatibility (this is the source of most of the WebGL issues), but it comes at the expense of performance and not being able to use my pretty particles the same :(

If anyone truly desires the bonafide ULTRAFUN experience ASAP (and doesn't want to wait for me to fix it) the game is also available for free on Steam (Windows/Linux) :)

[THREAT != CONTAINED]

w00t another 3D Godot dev!
I also ran into audio issues with my HTML5 exports and came up with a workaround to fix it. It was kinda complicated so I posted a description of how I did it: https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1148893
I'm not 100% sure this will also fix it for you but I think it's more likely than not.

Edit: Finished the game. The 2D-in-3D graphics were appealing and had a lot of nice touches, the creepiness of the things in the containment rooms helps make the game memorable. The design of having the player go into a J shaped area when they kill the power and have the monster where it is pretty much guarantees that the player will die the first time through and have to start from the beginning, and if they don't notice that the monster moves through walls right away then they'll probably die at least once more, each time having to start from the beginning. It's a short game so it's not horrible to have to repeat the path to the power room each time, but it's kinda monotonous to have to do each time before the real action starts. After figuring out how to really play the game, it's entertaining enough to make up for it. Looking forward to seeing what you do in the future.

Frosty responds:

Thanks a ton for the review. and i will 100% check out that fix, cheers!

[Lost For Swords]

Hi fellow Godot dev, I saw comments about issues I can help with.

First is the issue of zooming in the browser producing unintended funky resizing of control nodes. That's easy to fix and described here https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1157195

Second is audio playback quality for one of the reviewers being kinda bad. If it's what I think it is, switching to Firefox will fix it for that user because it's an issue with Chromium and probably depends on their computer's hardware too so won't necessarily happen for all Chrome users. If you want to make it play music without any glitchiness in Chrome, then the fix on the dev's side is a lot more complex but I gave a short description here https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1148893

Lastly, if you want to add medals or leaderboards, you can use the Newgrounds API implementation I wrote or one of the others at https://www.newgrounds.io/get-started/ but mine would be the easiest to implement (I mite be biased :3)

Oh yeah, as for the game itself, it was fun and had well-polished presentation, but after finishing the tutorial and clearing two rooms I started getting rooms where my only option was to backtrack and I couldn't advance anymore?

MaxBytes responds:

Hello fellow Godot dev!

Thanks for the nice writeup and help, I appreciate it!

I have just today published an update that implements your described workaround for the music using howler.js, works great. And your tutorial helped a lot! :)

Will try your suggestion regarding the window stretch mode... although I cannot reproduce the issues myself and zooming works correctly in my browser (chrome). I had suspected that the actual issue for some players is that their browser window is too small in height (and/or width) to display the game fully (on 100% zoom)... maybe I'm wrong though.

Regarding you being stuck in the game: the game does not do the best job at explaining what you actually have to do there. You're not really stuck, your goal is to defeat all Monsters so that there are no more monsters in the Dungeon Deck (or on the board). Once you achieve that, the Backtrack turns into a door that lets you continue :) If you cannot defeat the Monsters within the 3 rooms, you need to backtrack and take some damage.

[Tangled Slug]

There seems to be a bug - after I finished level 100 it went to level 101 (which looks just like level 1) and then level 102 (which doesn't look like level 2), but in level 102 after I collected all the shrooms the level didn't end, the slug still moved around as if there were still more to collect even though there weren't. Can't say I'm too surprised that no one else has mentioned this bug before. :3

Might be nice to have an option to show numbers over the shrooms to see what order they'll spawn in - in the Very Hard levels I was screenshotting some of the tougher ones and writing numbers to help plan them out.

erytau responds:

Oh wow, I guess you are one the first to finish the game! Awesome work. One could say you even over-finished it and found some "secrets". Those 101, 102 etc were the debug levels that I forgot to delete :D

Later I'll probably add some extra levels, but for now I just removed them (NG version is already updated). Thanks for pointing it out, and congratz on winning!

[Heliox Station]

I was going to comment on gamepad too -- it looks from the comments like you discovered the same thing I did that mapping is kinda screwed up with web games dependent on JavaScript's API especially with a switch controller. When I made Quad, I solved that by making a separate gamepad mapper to handle re-mapping all the controls since I really needed every button and both joypad axes to work like I wanted for that game, you can play it to see what I mean at
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/848392
I also posted the source code for the Godot autoload to make it work, which made things as easy as I could for other devs to implement it in their own projects too.
https://3p0ch.newgrounds.com/news/post/1261146
Although it might need some tweaking to convert from Godot 3 to Godot 4.

Also IDK why saving isn't working for you but feel free to msg me if you want the Godot 4 form of the autoload I usually use for handling save data, and/or are having issues with cloudsaving with the Newgrounds API implementation.

kaiakairos responds:

im not home right now but ill 100% message you about this tomorrow

[Jetpack Kiwi]

It looks like it would be a pretty good game, but the controls are killing it for me -- if I'm moving horizontally or vertically and try to start going diagonally it won't respond, using either keyboard or gamepad. It also apparently only lets you move in eight directions instead of in any direction with the gamepad. If it would be easy to make that movement feel more responsive I think it'd significantly improve the the gameplay.

Pitigamedev responds:

Thank you for your feedback. I will check it out and try to make the controls smoother.

[twenty, in total]

Scoreboard isn't working? If you're using my Godot API implementation feel free to dm me, and if you're not it should be easy to pop it in as an autoload.

BNTFryingPan responds:

We just haven't set it up yet lol

[UVSU]

Nice game, and I'd like to see the sorts of puzzles you could come up with if it weren't under the time crunch of a gamejam. But what do the letters and numbers at the end mean? I saw that at least in my case the first five letters spelled "THIIK", and thought "well, if dietzribi wants to let us know he has a thing for big butts then I can respect that".

dietzribi responds:

It's a steam key!!!

[Dinner For Mom!]

Gud game but on the third level the crowd after you take out a few police won't go away even though I kilt all the enemies? Tried reloading and replaying and they're still not leaving.

Sulfur-Cretin responds:

Man I though I fixed that bug :(
I'll try to make a quick update but no one mentioned it in the jam I entered so I hoped it was gone