Score: 10

"Woww"

submission: Crotchless Chaps

date: August 4, 2009

Haha most authors would have tried to split this much content into a few episodes but it was awesome to see so much awesome stuff in one video. Hepatitis & made me laugh a lot and obviously your fashion trend is genius and will take off...particularly in the toddler section is my guess

Score: 9

"Nice work!"

submission: Bango!

date: May 25, 2009

I love to see authors responding to reviews, so I'm more than happy to write one here. It's easy to see the amount of work that went into this game- the graphics fit well, the mechanics are great, and the whole thing stays fun and fresh throughout. Getting all of the medals was a nice challenge- not so bad that it made me crazy, but hard enough so I felt accomplished to yell "I AM THE KING OF BANGO!". I do wonder if that was your real top score, though in the gold medal. I always say that when users can do better at a game than the creator, the creator has done a good job, so I give you a pat on the back for that.

Only thing that might be nice would be more unlockables. New challenge levels were definitely nice, but maybe a change in character color or music could also be unlocked with achievements. In particular, I would like to see the last achievement give a reward.

But overall, definitely nice work! Thanks!

Score: 6

"Meh"

submission: Ultimate Tactics

date: May 9, 2009

I wasn't going to bother writing a review pointing out all of the glaring flaws in this game, but since you were kind enough to respond to early reviews, I figure perhaps what I write will be read and considered.

All in all, I do not believe that this game was worth creating. It offers absolutely nothing original to the genre, and is TERRIBLY engineered. I feel this way about every game you have created. Time after time, you put out games with enjoyable graphics and gameplay that are truly miserable to play in the end because they are unbalanced and (I cannot say this enough) glitchy. I don't know why you put so much time into games and then just leave glaring flaws in them. It bothers me, and it should bother you. This game is no exception. Several times, I would click on a square and because of objects in the way my character would simply go somewhere else. Once, my character was blocked in and I tried to move everywhere, and the whole game just froze and had to be restarted. Often, it is difficult (if not impossible) to click on the square I want to move to because of characters in the way. Also, your movement system as a whole makes no sense. My characters can move to squares in a given radius, but if their path there is blocked then they take any way necessary to get there. Sometimes, this means my characters will move all over the board just to get one spot...they go to places they can't end up on. And this is not sensible at all. Either you don't understand the genre, you don't understand programming, or you just don't understand logic.

Now in terms of the unbalanced gameplay I mentioned before, examples abound. The damage done by my team and by enemies is simply pathetic. Like really, truly abysmal. When my characters have around 70 health and snakes are dealing them 2 damage per turn, it is an embarrassing sight to watch. And when enemies have 80 health, and I can only deal 9, it is equally embarrassing. Fights take FOREVER, and not just because turns are slow, which they are, but because I feel like everyone is attacking with foam swords or something. Just quadruple everyone's damage. Maybe I could have gotten to the 'recommended level' to do the missions, but the requirements are dumb because no mission is HARD, just interminable. It is physically painful for me to sit there whacking the same enemies for like 12 turns with very little depletion in health on either team. I feel the same way about experience. When I get an archer at first who needs 300 exp to level, getting 2 exp per attack isn't even worth the time it takes to flash across the screen. Where the hell did you come up with all of the numbers in your game? Did you roll a ten sided die and say 'oh that looks good' because your numbers are all miserably low. Unless I have to kill 300 enemies, in which case they're unreasonably high, because I'm not going to spend 5 hours trudging through your excuse for a game to get a sword that, even if it doubled my damage, would still be next to useless. Even the levels needed to open treasure chests are poorly thought out...I was getting medium level chests with a skill level of 4 with no easy chests in sight. It seems you intended us to grind for multiple battles between missions, but given how long, easy, and meaningless fights are, it simply isn't worth it. Also, the turn menus are poorly set up. I shouldn't have to click so many times to make my characters do such simple tasks.

The only redeeming aspects of this game are that it is somewhat addicting. I want my mage to get all his spells, and I want to see what the sword is like. However, I am never going to muster the will to do any of these things because of the rest of the game is so awful.

Honestly, I do not know if you are meant to create games. Clearly, the current score of this one shows that others would disagree with me, but I am entitled to my own opinion. Your games are repeatedly shallow, unoriginal, and badly made. Either work with others who compensate for your flaws, or save my mental well-being by leaving the industry.

*END RANT*

Score: 8

"Very fun...but buggy"

submission: Epsilon Strain

date: April 21, 2009

I would give this game 10/10 for sure if not for 2 main things...the first is that the store is confusing. Why do some of the items have locks over them initially? For the longest time I thought I couldn't buy them and thus used terrible weapons through 5 areas. Also, I ran into the same major bug that others seem to be hitting, which is that the game repeatedly freezes during levels ranked 6. I've tried several times now and same thing each time. On a minor note, I think that the word space is missing in the instructions when it says what to press when near a door.

Overall, a great piece of work but I was displeased by easily fixable yet glaringly wrong parts of it. Fix it up and its a perfect score for sure.

Score: 7

"Original concept"

submission: Cage Tibet

date: April 2, 2009

could have used more variety between levels, and earlier ones could have been easier though.

Score: 9

"AWESOME work"

submission: Portal Defenders

date: February 28, 2009

First: CHEST CODE. I don't know if anyone's posted it yet (I checked every review last night) but I got it and it seems to always be crown, poop, thumb.

Review time...really a very very well done game...I'm sure others have given all the compliments I have. Still, I'm not completely satisfied with this game. The adblocker thing is a problem for me, and for some reason my progress keeps getting lost when I come back. I've never had this problem with another game on this site before, and it bothers me because I've lost all my unlocked characters. =(

Score: 8

"Nice work, but needs work"

submission: Bumper Boat Battle

date: February 18, 2009

I really do like this game; it's probably the best of its kind I've ever played. It has compelling challenges, interesting customization options, and some satisfying moments. Yet I can't feel like there's too much missing to call this a great game.

Really, all of my complaints lie in the 'challenge' system. Challenges should, by nature, be challenging, not completely impossible. EARN $10,000,000?? KILL 5000 HENCHLINGS?? I've been playing for a fair amount of time and I'm nowhere even NEAR those numbers. And the rewards aren't even that good for such insane accomplishments (using the word loosely) either. Even the sniper badge is probably harder than it should be in my opinion. And why do I need to do something as difficult as go through the first five waves without a hit to unlock something as integral as the selection screen? The way it should work (not that I want to tell you how to do your job...obviously you're a better programmer than I am) but the way it should work is that different achievements unlock different characters. Not having all of them grouped into one, unnecessarily difficult achievement.

Also, none of the challenges extend past level 5! Once I hit this level, I was really not compelled to go on anymore. IF you put challenges in a game, you have to expect that people are going to measure their success off of the awards they've received. After hitting wave 5, part of me feels like I'm done. This feeling intensified once I go the diamond boat. Why keep going on after this? And why get rid of the upgrade screen? I need a brake every once in a while even after I'm fully upgraded. Why don't you allow the player to buy health between levels at this point? Or extra characters? Or new mine types? You need more cash sinks.

Sorry to rant, but I feel like there's so much potential in this game and yet I barely want to continue playing it. I feel like you can do better, and will do better. In my opinion, this project is worth continuing to a sequel. Maybe new arenas, enemies, weapons, statistics, characters, character storylines, powerups...all of these things could make a really awesome game. I hope some of these suggestions are helpful.

Score: 9

"Ah very nice"

submission: Time4Cat

date: January 5, 2009

Haha I had a lot of fun with this one. First of all, this game has, without a doubt, the best name I've ever seen. Time4Cat? Perfect. It's adorable, fitting, and somehow works well with the whole lolcat phase the interwebz seems to be going through. The gameplay itself was also very smooth and everything looked great. However, I found the beginning a bit slow. Maybe I was playing more defensively than I should have or something, but I felt like I just had the walking people for a while. Then once I got the bikers it wasn't long before I went for a food on the side and got smacked by a bike. My own fault though, I guess.

Also, the stats tracked at the end seem weird. In particular, I wonder why amount of time spent playing is recorded. If I wanted, I could just leave the game alone and get a huge play time. That doesn't make sense.

Anyway, still a great avoidance game even if it's nothing incredibly new. Certainly better than my current efforts at making one...which looks much more similar to your prototype lol (it is written in java, though, if that makes a difference).

Score: 9

"Ah nice, refreshing work"

submission: Not so Funky

date: December 29, 2008

Hehe this was fun to watch. Everything was synced quite well and it all looked great. I particularly liked the cat's instrument and the cat himself was very slick. Of course the music is very sweet as well and I love the variety of events that you have occur on the beat, from flashes to movements to time manipulation. Really just a cool piece of flash that's impossible to watch only once. Just wish it was longer...but thanks for the work!

Score: 8

"Pretty mixed feelings on this one..."

submission: The Savior (battle)

date: December 21, 2008

Well its almost hard to know what to say here...this is a sweet game and fun to play, but, as others have pointed out, it's really buggy. It's strange to see a game which is refined in so many ways break down in so many obvious aspects. Anyhow, still worthwhile...

Also, I was able to beat the game on master mode relatively easily, and if anyone is wondering how to do so I'll explain briefly. I started out with all of my points in strength. Then, I leveled about five times only by killing the fire elementals and hitting the theif; I never hit the boss so he never got better moves. I kept doing this until I had maxed out my weapon (I personally took the path on the right, which ended in a blade called the Chaos Savior, it's special was a summoned energy/lightning storm that goes to the right dealing 500 dmg). Anyhow, each time I leveled I put all the points in strength until around level 3-4 where I would put 1 in defense and 2 in strength. Eventually when he started getting better moves I moved into 2 defense 1 strength. The other stats didn't really seem to help much. Anyway, I didn't start taking the boss down till my weapon was maxed and once this happened I just pounded away on him. Very little need to dodge attacks cause of all the health I had at that point. Occasionally, I would use my limit break when he was about to use an attack I couldn't dodge because it gives momentary invinsibility. So it took a whlie but I did finally beat him. (It may or may not be worth noting that it says 'congratulation' at the end and not 'congratulations' as it should, if the author is reading this...I hate it when things get misspelled in games)

Also, for anyone interested in what you get for beating the modes, the first two levels give you an extra 50 health when you start the game (they don't seem to stack though so I think the max starting health is 150). When you beat master mode, you get a savior medal and some card thing which are going to be used in the next game...given all the glitches I saw here though I have serious doubts about whether or not these things will actually get transferred. I would like to see that though, given that I think this series has potential if bugs are worked out and if there are ideas for expansion like some sort of card/armor system in the works like it seems there are.

Anyway, all in all its a cool game with a rough learning curve but I look forward to seeing what comes next.