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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Spooner's comment |
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| Aug 23 16:09:00 | The Lair of Fungal Wonder | I was immediately reminded of the classic claymation side-ways scrolling shooter Platypus when I saw this. Definitely very impressed that you managed to hand-craft in the time-scale! <br/> <br/>Really liked the way the spore-guns stuck to you too, though I was less sure of the way that you scanned the mushrooms. | |
| Aug 24 05:36:00 | 13h 27m | Zombie Fisticuff Quarrel | A long time since I saw digitised people in a game; sort of missing that style now. Animations, although not using a lot of frames, were very effective and obviously modelled with great enthusiasm. Ultimately, I had endless fun beating up deps, then throwing deps at deps :) |
| Aug 25 11:05:00 | 29h 29m | Dead End inc. | I really liked the style of the game, especially the little chat bubble in the title scene and spat out by panicked managers. Slick! <br/> <br/>The difficulty does rack up very fast, but the lack of variety in game-play wouldn't support a longer game. |
| Aug 26 03:09:00 | 16h 04m | Constatine Sucks | I liked this more than I expected to. I was thinking it would be a bog-standard platformer, when it was really more of a puzzle game. The puzzles were pretty good as far as I got, though I did struggle a bit with timing jumps while switching and using abilities, but I'm sure that could be made easier. <br/> <br/>As others said, the text could have been larger (even just a simple key list in the entry description would have helped a lot); I had to read the comments to work out what to do! |
| Aug 26 05:23:00 | 2h 14m | Fire, Fire, Where You Are | Did like the concept a great deal, though I found it too hard to exactly place my fires so they blocked the onslaught (I felt that once I had worked out where to place them, it shouldn't be a work of extreme precision to actually block off an area). <br/> <br/>Nice original use of the theme and pretty too. |
| Aug 26 05:42:00 | 19m 00s | Psi Keepers | Hehe! First game I've seen that has a similar game-play to my own entry, so that has to be good. Hmm, but on the other hand, it isn't exactly the same as mine, so perhaps I should mark it down? :P <br/> <br/>Good use of the theme, but the game-play was very limited. Could have done with obstacles, perhaps, to make the map a bit less open. As people have said, catching multiple bombers in the explosions would have helped a lot. <br/> <br/>The lighting effect, though simple, did add something to the game. I felt I was being chased by villagers with pitchforks and burning brands! |
| Aug 26 06:00:00 | 18m 00s | :V unappreciative duck eats enemies | Yeah, runs stupidly fast here too. Since I can eat enemies by flying over them and they were unaffected by my dotted lin, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to shoot with the ammo I allegedly got from eating the As. Either that or I completely missed the point. |
| Aug 26 06:19:00 | 19m 00s | Robot infiltrate | Really enjoyed this puzzley game, but some simple sound effects would have made it. Would like to see the sort of levels you could make using the mechanic with a bit more time. <br/> <br/>Liked seeing the concept art in your journal. |
| Aug 26 06:42:00 | 23m 00s | Chassis Commander | Liked that picking up your weapon was in 3 parts, so you could mix and match a better weapon (clip, feed & barrel). Well, you could, but mainly you were taking pot luck (which was fine). <br/> <br/>I would have preferred less robots that were more of a threat rather than a horde of drones, but that is more personal preference than saying something is wrong with the game. <br/> <br/>I had fun! |
| Aug 26 07:00:00 | 18m 00s | Zombie Conquest | Neat little puzzler, especially since you included an editor. <br/> <br/>I had to use XP/SP3 compatibility mode (Win7x64) but then it seemed fine. |
| Aug 26 07:11:00 | 11m 00s | Super Collide-Em-Up | Loved the game, but "Enemies as weapons"? It was a lot harder to knock asteroids into other asteroids than it actually was to knock them yourself (and it was more often that I pushed an asteroid into earth than pushed it away, when I tried to do this). <br/> <br/>Brought back happy memories of playing the Nuclear War card game. Only 30 millions dead? Ha, I shrug it off! |
| Aug 26 07:13:00 | 2m 00s | Isolation | Really interesting little game, that looked like it had a lot of content (if only I was better at jumping :)). Intro and general style helped greatly. <br/> <br/>Not sure that a snake-whip really counted as good use of "enemies as weapons" though. |
| Aug 26 07:41:00 | 28m 00s | An Unfinished Game | The moving background was painful, but otherwise pretty. <br/> <br/>The problem with the knock-enemies-into-other-enemies system is that you kill enemies by touching them anyway, so there isn't much reason for it. Perhaps if you had to bounce on the enemies and that made them shoot out and kill other enemies, it would make more sense. |
| Aug 26 07:46:00 | 5m 00s | Attack Of The Weapons | Would have been very nice to have a standalone that didn't need me to install .NET. <br/> <br/>Didn't think the theme was covered in a very interesting way, though it was within the interpretation. Random levels, however is a boon, though didn't slog through a lot of them to see how different they actually were. |
| Aug 26 08:00:00 | 14m 00s | Fib | I enjoyed working out the puzzles in the game and think that it could be be great with some more levels designed after the competition. <br/> <br/>Creating the insults was a bit cumbersome, especially when I had to persuade about 8 guys to leap into a pit. Otherwise, it was intuitive enough. Shame that there wasn't really a difference between pants and balls though :P |
| Aug 27 09:30:00 | 25h 30m | Spider Hunt | Liked the idea that carrying a spider limited where you could go, but I didn't feel it really limited me, because I had stones to throw anyway. Maybe I just didn't get far enough (collision handling issues made progress slow; gave up on level 2). <br/> <br/>I wouldn't force the player to kill all the spiders in order to advance. If you want to jump over them or, in the first level, not bother to go and get the extra life, I don't see a reason not to let the player past (you'd get less points that way, but I'm not sure that hoovering up all the monsters is fun). |
| Aug 27 09:40:00 | 10m 00s | Out of ammo | Audio when the enemies fire would make it a lot easier (in a good way), I think. Otherwise, nice simple idea that is nevertheless fun to play! |
| Aug 27 09:50:00 | 10m 00s | Zombies as Weapons | Nice to see someone playing with building an engine rather than just using off-the-peg stuff, even if other parts of the game suffered. Game would have gained immensely just from having a stick-figure for the player, rather than a box. <br/> <br/>Sadly, the game kept crashing before there were more than one zombie, so I couldn't actually use "enemies as weapons" :( (Windows binary on Win7x64). Did manage to play zombie bowling in the end though :) <br/> <br/>Journal good though. |
| Aug 27 09:58:00 | 8m 00s | Rotate | Since you can rotate fast, and the bullets are slow, it doesn't seem to matter which way you are facing when you fire as long as you rotate with the bullet in the air. Not knowing when you will actually fire doesn't help either. <br/> <br/>Still, interesting concept and brownie points for making it with only dynamic HTML :) |
| Aug 27 10:07:00 | 9m 00s | LunarMind | I didn't the way the rooms reset when I left them. I walked off one screen with three spiders on it to a dead end, then when I went back, I got killed at the edge of the screen before I could do anything. I think the game would have benefited from continuous scrolling, since the "levels" were so tiny in real terms. <br/> <br/>Still, nice art style and some interesting ideas. |
| Aug 27 10:14:00 | 7m 00s | Flinger | Like others, I found that the only way I could get anywhere without dying very quickly was expanding out and rotating. <br/> <br/>Very original concept and with a bit of tweaking of the controls and making it obvious which way you were facing, could be a fun game. |
| Aug 27 10:24:00 | 10m 00s | Your Doomed | Needed a bit more to do; would have been nice to have less asteroids and maybe some aliens shooting at you that you needed to crush with the rocks? <br/> <br/>Otherwise interesting mechanically and has potential, perhaps. |
| Aug 27 10:34:00 | 10m 00s | Loputon | Huge numbers of enemies homing in directly from all directions made avoiding them too hard, especially since they bypassed the platforms. The fact you could just continually dash in all directions made the bat (and the platforms) a bit irrelevant. <br/> <br/>Still, some un and has some potential, but I'm not sure what exactly would make it work better. |
| Aug 27 10:48:00 | 14m 00s | Thwackswinger 2 | Nice mechanics! As others have said, a bit more polish and variety would make the game even more playable. |
| Aug 27 10:55:00 | 7m 00s | EnemiesOfTheLetterB | Really liked the graphics, but bad that I couldn't see the grass "wall" when end-on. Has potential though and although the music is creepy, that is all for the good! |
| Aug 27 11:02:00 | 7m 00s | iceFIREice | Original mechanics, with potential. As people have said, being the hand of god is a a bit confusing and makes it too easy to just run around in the walls. If they didn't get attracted to you if you were inside the walls, it might make sense. |
| Aug 27 11:24:00 | 22m 00s | DIE ALIEN DIE | Shame you used dodgy music; I was really impressed when I thought it was original! Lovely game and style; screen area could have been a bit bigger. |
| Aug 27 11:33:00 | 9m 00s | Hacking4Dummies | Pipe-hacking lifted straight from Alien Swarm (and others) and Mastermind, but at least put together in a nice package. My primitive ape brain couldn't hack fast enough to finish the game, but at least that means it had a decent scaling difficulty. <br/> <br/>Wherefor art thou, Theme? |
| Aug 27 13:25:00 | 1h 52m | Robot Maze of Doom | Couldn't find the theme in there, which was a shame. |
| Aug 27 13:38:00 | 13m 00s | Dr. Stein's Super Weapons VS Giant Robots | Nice to have added a bit of dialogue to make the game less flat than most of the other entries. The magnetic effects were nice, and I am sure could be expanded upon to be central to the game-play, but actually throwing robot heads around was a little cumbersome. <br/> <br/>Seemed to be lots of spikes directly under drops that you couldn't see until you'd fallen onto them. Seemed a bit unavoidable unless you were psychic. |
| Aug 27 13:52:00 | 14m 00s | Exterminate 48 | Nice pretty game; decent puzzling action. If only you'd used Tom Baker as the player, you'd have had 5* in everything :$ |
| Aug 28 05:55:00 | 16h 03m | Tacticool | Shame that this isn't really playable, but a decent effort at a beginning prototype tower-defence game. |
| Aug 28 06:06:00 | 11m 00s | This End Up | I liked that "bouncing" enemies also affected the environment (such as turning the platforms over so you could stand on them, which was a step ahead of some games I've seen that followed the same formula). <br/> <br/>Glitchiness didn't help; it might have been nice to have been able to see more of this game. Even without improving the sprites, it would have been nice to show direction of facing, since the attacks were directional. |
| Aug 28 06:25:00 | 19m 00s | SpaceFreak Snack | Nice music. Game was an original idea, but needed work. <br/> <br/>Thought the game was too hard until I realised that you had to constantly kick little guys just to stay out of the jaws :) Poor little guys! |
| Aug 28 06:38:00 | 13m 00s | Enemies, (Such) as Weapons. | Nice that there is an intro; bad that it goes on (and on). Thankfully I could skip it. <br/> <br/>I barely had time to work out what the two concurrent games were before I died. I can't imagine anyone could come to those games completely blind and succeed, even if they only had to play one at once! Remember that with games like this, other players don't have the deep understanding of how they work on first glance, that you, as the game developer, have. Maybe I'm just getting old... <br/> <br/>I'd be curious whether a pat-your-head-while-rubbing-your-belly game like this could be made to work. The mini-games could actually be even more simple (trivial even), I think, and it would still work as a test of multi-tasking and coordination. |
| Aug 28 06:51:00 | 13m 00s | I <3 Tractor Beams | Why were tribes of cats living on the asteroids? They made a horribly heart-twanging sound as they were thrown off their homes into space (Simple graphics + fine sound effects + too much imagination). <br/> <br/>As someone said, there wasn't an actual challenge, but it was fun to swing and fire asteroids around. Not sure if you got a huge bonus for sling-shotting, but there should have been (I could only hit things while swinging). Some flying saucers with lasers might have improved the experience and given more incentive to grab an asteroid. <br/> <br/>I would have preferred a larger window with pixellated graphics, but it was surprisingly playable in spite of that. |
| Aug 28 07:01:00 | 10m 00s | Tactics Lasso! | Runs fine for me on win7x64, but I have newish card & driver. <br/> <br/>Found tracking the enemy with the mouse a little fiddly, but I think that could be improved without making it too easy. The lasso and blue-meanie twirling was very nicely done, though I had trouble aiming them at other meanies (felt easier just to throw them off the edge). |
| Aug 28 07:12:00 | 11m 00s | Cave Flyer (green) | Liked the Tron style a lot and the use of size-for-health (and the way that integrated with the navigation though smaller places; unlike the other reviewer, I felt this could have been more used). Not sure the theme was used as well as it might have, but I greatly enjoyed exploring the neon caves. |
| Aug 28 07:28:00 | 16m 00s | Andrew The Angry Salmon | Making all the other games look shabby :( <br/> <br/>Plenty of levels, considering the time limit, but keep to the turn-based (you can't move/fire while the game is resolving effects) rather than real-time puzzles. |
| Aug 28 07:34:00 | 6m 00s | Dodger | I've seen a few tempt-enemies-to-shoot-each-other games and although the rotational mechanic in this one was an innovation, the game was just a little too slow to keep interest. |
| Aug 28 07:45:00 | 11m 00s | Sporg | Would have liked to collide based on my actual shape, not a larger rectangle, but that is not a big complaint. Decent puzzles with the theme used on some levels. Fun, if a little slow. |
| Aug 28 07:52:00 | 7m 00s | Prot | Music is a little grating. Animations made up for it :) |
| Aug 28 12:54:00 | 5h 02m | D3SCENT | Got to the spring room but it kept glitching (using page-up to return). Tried half a dozen times, but I just couldn't get through and gave up (I still had to watch the intro and talk to the computer before page-up worked for me and I felt it could have been a dozen more tries before I randomly got past that level). Was really disappointed, because I wanted _so much_ to serve the computer! <br/> <br/>Was a bit confused by the sound. On my first play-through music started at what seemed to be a random point; silence before. Then I read in your journal that you had a human-acted voice-over in the intro, but no, I never heard that (maybe you didn't get around to putting that in?). |
| Aug 28 13:21:00 | 27m 00s | Rotate! | Crashed accessing the high scores as well as got stuck in the wall at one point. Being able to know my fire direction before I fired would have been a great boon, especially since firing weakened me :) |
| Sep 1 08:04:00 | 90h 43m | GNORF | Fun game-play, but the physics simulation was often a bit ropey. Online high-scores definitely a massive plus. |
| Sep 1 08:12:00 | 8m 00s | Crustacean Cannon | As people have said, restarting if you fail is not so in-keeping with what is a puzzle, rather than arcade, game. |
| Sep 2 17:11:00 | 32h 59m | Doors and some other stuff | The link above is wrong. Appears to be at http://hempuli.com/DR/doooors.html now. |