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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | ranklar's comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20 01:40:00 | Mother Robot | Might want to put the objective, I was not really sure what I was trying to to or find. Can you dig? I loved the music! | |
| Dec 20 21:33:00 | 19h 53m | Drill Warrior | I like the fact that you have a way to win, and the game works for the most part. Great job in using the theme! The downside for me, was the scanner which seemed to be frivolous. I was able to find 4 of 5 diamonds by visual inspection of the graphics, they seemed to bleed through, not sure if it was intended, but the result was making the scanner useless. I also wish there was another level or the ability to try again at a higher score. <br/> <br/>Overall it was a decent game, and I think you should be proud of what you accomplished. Your game is lot more fun than mine! :) Low ratings on humor (wasn't funny), audio, the sound was really repetitive, and innovation (would have given you a 4 on this if the scanner was worthwhile!) |
| Dec 20 21:51:00 | 18m 00s | Nameless Island | As previously mentioned, the game crashed after I completed the bug splatting mini game. I enjoyed the mini games you included (I was able to do the fishing, and that did not crash). The audio was not very good, but you had some! Some of the sayings were funny-ish ;) The graphics would have scored a notch higher if you had just used something less bright than the neon green to complement the bright green :) Nice game, and I would have liked to try and complete it, had it not crashed on bug splatting. |
| Dec 20 22:26:00 | 35m 00s | Cold Fusion | I liked the snow effect, it gave me all the oomph for your innovation rating and your graphics. I also liked the graphics of your snow machine! Ok, the fun aspect was fun for the first minute... and then it was REALLY boring driving around in a loop over and over and over and over for the energy bar to fill. No audio, low score. Humor ALMOST none, but the full of win made me laugh :) Overall a great game, you totally kicked my ass (like everyone I have ranked so far)... how in the hell did you get someone to order 27 pizzas?! Hmm, maybe that is the key to a good game? ;) |
| Dec 20 22:38:00 | 12m 00s | False Hope | I liked the concept of the game, I was just let down a little on the implementation. I am still not sure if there is even a way to win. There does not seem to be anyway to use logic to get out. Also, you can click on squares in the middle of the map when you first start (without putting down white boxes), and is actually what I did trying to figure out what I was supposed to do, until I saw the screenshot and figured I need to put boxes down from the green arrow. <br/> <br/>Like I said, the theme take was awesome, and if perhaps you could hear some audio hints by "listening" in different boxes, then that might have been a way to implement some type of logic. <br/> <br/>I did not find any postings from you for your journal, so low community score... and all this being said, you still kicked my games butt! If you added some kind of listening thing or logic, it would have rated much higher. |
| Dec 20 22:46:00 | 8m 00s | Gyroids | Ok, I really REALLY wanted to like this game. I thought the game could have been really good, it was just eh. So I gave a good innovation score, fun was 3 because it was really hard to control, and I spent 90% of my time playing falling off the edges. If you did some testing, you either have good reflexes or just ran out of time to change the sensitivity. Graphics were nice and colorful, but not outstanding. No audio or humor so low scores there, only one post so low community. <br/> <br/>Overall a nice game with some really nice potential. Another game that destroyed my submission, nice job mate. |
| Dec 20 22:54:00 | 8m 00s | You Found the Crystal | The game was decent, although the bright green graphics was really tough on the eyes after the first minute. The sound grated on me after two minutes. And I grew to hate the spikes :) <br/>Decent innovation, decent fun, decent theme, all fairly common, graphics scored low because they shouldn't give me a headache, audio was there so you didn't get a one, more variety with the levels would have been nice. No community posts... or humor, but I want to congratulate you on a very decent game, with multiple levels, which kicked my games ass (I think I am going to be saying this a lot). |
| Dec 20 23:04:00 | 10m 00s | Alphabet Trader | I liked the idea of the game, it was not very fun to play, since J and K did not move my character. In fact I could not find any key on my keyboard that would, or anything I did with the mouse. I am using Windows 7 which you said it was tested extensively... otherwise I might have given you the benefit of the doubt. I did give you points in community, even though you only posted a few times, for your reference to the original (and kickass) Tron! That movie was indeed inspirational and will always be a classic. Good attempt mate, just seems to have fallen short. |
| Dec 20 23:22:00 | 18m 00s | MINE | Ok, wow. First of all, you should move the instructions to a splash screen, a text file, or something. Having to randomly hit all the keys on my keyboard to see that Z allows me to interact with the signs, which then tell me to hit Z, is a little annoying and easily fixed. The game was really well implemented. I like the increasing stats! I loved being able to dungeon and dig around, combat was basic, but had offense and defense... and of course everyone enjoys finding treasure! Poor Humor and Audio, decent community (taking showers is always encouraged, although I am not sure of your orbitz fascination). <br/> <br/>One last note that kinda upset me, I was not able to exit the game. ESC did not work, and I was not able to close via the X top right corner, or selected close from right clicking on the window bar. CTRL ALT DEL kill process... not sure if this has to do with the Game Maker thing you used to make the game or what, but just letting you know. <br/> <br/>Most fun game I have played so far, and this game also kicks my games ass... |
| Dec 20 23:31:00 | 9m 00s | Planet 53 | The concept with the theme was good, discover new planets and kill the ETs! The game was not really fun, since I was not sure of what to do with the green item I picked up. The graphics were decent, the main character was nice. No humor, the gun effect was nice, but lacking Audio wise overall. I love your posts on the sketches and your ideas, sounds like you have a great story and plan to implement in a future version. Good job, the game kicked my games ass. |
| Dec 20 23:39:00 | 8m 00s | From Nothing | I really liked the concept of discovering the maze as you moved alone, and it was great with the theme. I got stuck while playing at one point and that was a bit frustrating as I have moved on to other color mazes (not sure if those are different levels?). Not really good audio, no humor, only 1 post... low scores on those accounts. The game was not really fun to play either, but the theme and innovation of the discovery aspect was really nicely done. Once again, kicks my games butt. |
| Dec 20 23:54:00 | 15m 00s | You must discover yourself. | Seems like a great idea, discover yourself! I like the concept and the idea along the theme. The game was not very fun to play, it was very hard to keep everyone together so they didn't die off, and sometimes a question would not be displayed when I hit a ?, just the input box. I am confident this was not on purpose, because the previous question was in the background still. Poor audio, no humor, decent community and graphics. This game kicked my games butt. |
| Dec 20 23:58:00 | 4m 00s | Ominous | No audio, humor, or innovation, but it was fun to play! Nice puzzle game, little bit of tetris and concentration (remember here the pieces should go), and I had a blast. Very nicely done mate! |
| Dec 21 00:11:00 | 13m 00s | Land of Discovery | You got my hopes up... and then I found the bugs... so I ended up apparently in a weird state on the first catwalk section I discovered... I sat there at the end and nothing. I ran back to the starting platform and around it, nothing. So I figured I would jump off the catwalk and die, and try again... but I ended up still alive way down at the bottom amongst the fire... and I could even still shoot fireballs back up at the camera. I rated innovation, theme, and graphics due to the great sword slashing, concept, and what I envisioned could happen... Nice attempt, it kicked my game in the butt. |
| Dec 21 00:17:00 | 6m 00s | StickMan's Discovery | Same, it appears corrupt. I even tried to open the project in devstudio to get it to work, and devstudio didn't know what it was... |
| Dec 21 00:19:00 | 2m 00s | The Complex | Was not able to get it working, Windos 7 64 bit. |
| Dec 21 00:29:00 | 10m 00s | Sprawl | Pretty bland in terms of fun and game play. I went through many screens, collecting over 100 yellow boxes, and finally had to quit. Some use of sound, nice colors, overall a decent submission for 48 hours. Kicked my game for sure. |
| Dec 21 00:33:00 | 4m 00s | Chaotic Spread | Sorry, email requirement REALLY upsets me. I have to deal with that enough in the world... not from submissions? Uh, no thanks. |
| Dec 21 01:58:00 | 1h 25m | Control | Decent concept, and the functionality was decent (I think?) if everything was indeed working, which I can't be sure of as the "game" is completely wonky. Fun? Not for me, but it was a nice idea. I like your use of audio! The polish and audio alone kicked my game's butt. |
| Dec 21 02:05:00 | 7m 00s | Maze of Towers | Great arcade game, albeit pretty hard. Decent fun, although the fun ran out after dying multiple times in the same spot. Decent graphics, some audio, no humor. Decent overall, good job mate. |
| Dec 21 02:12:00 | 7m 00s | Eureka! | It was an ok game, I like the screenshot, very good and you get your humor points for it! Theme was very good, the biggest problem I had was getting stuck in walls when sprinting into them on level 2. Anyway, nice entry mate. |
| Dec 21 02:16:00 | 4m 00s | Voyage of Discovery | Numpad not working for me, in fact none of my keys allow me to move. A shame really, I was looking forward to playing after reading the description. My one knock from what I was able to see.... WOW that is a small screen... |
| Dec 21 02:21:00 | 5m 00s | Discovery - Researching Space | If your gonna have the screenshot with AWESOME across it, you need to back it up mate. It was decent, but some of the collision needs some work. I had bullets go through some bad guys. Nice generation of random bad guys. Bad audio, no humor, decent game, good job. |
| Dec 21 02:26:00 | 5m 00s | Juxtapose | Tried Firefox (doesn't work), and I tried IE 8, and it doesn't work. I am not going to install Google and agree to their EULA, sorry mate. |
| Dec 21 02:36:00 | 10m 00s | BoxMiner | I think some of my brain cells died... ok it wasn't that bad, but it was not really fun. I mined up until a score of 1000 just to make sure I was not missing anything. I enjoyed your intro, just would have liked a little creativity... boxes and miners... uh ok. Sound please! Decent submission mate. |
| Dec 21 02:39:00 | 3m 00s | Teleport Discover | Am I missing something? The only thing that loads is a site explaining the rules... with links to LD19, LD18, and a web counter... |
| Dec 21 02:49:00 | 10m 00s | Beacon | Really well done, I wish I was able to get through the level. Some of the jumps were really tough trying to time the jet pack at the right time. I liked the fall that stunned you, I like the fact you get reset at your previous location before you died. Nice graphics, nice story, well done, best game I have played so far. |
| Dec 21 02:50:00 | 1m 00s | The Adventures of ASTROMAN! | zip > rar |
| Dec 21 03:02:00 | 12m 00s | Disco? Very! | No idea how to perform any dance moves... all I did was jump and strafe back and forth... pretty boring. You had audio! And it didn't drive me totally nuts! Grats... I am glad you admitted it doesn't have anything to do with the theme. Good job. |
| Dec 21 03:44:00 | 42m 00s | DirectionsTranscend | My favorite game played so far! I like the challenge, and the idea you can skip the level if you get too frustrated. PERFECT! I like that you can pick what directions you want to use on the level, it is a very nice design. Challenges you to think and to perform. Love it mate, you got this one done very well. Next time add some audio! ;) |
| Dec 21 04:03:00 | 19m 00s | Spelling Warrior - LD19 | zip > rar |
| Dec 21 04:07:00 | 4m 00s | The Last Moments | Decent arcade game! Better if you added some other objects / items in the game, but very nice. I like the audio! |
| Dec 21 04:18:00 | 11m 00s | Thirst | Decent game, a little boring running around looking for the village to save me, but decent. I like the oasis that filled you up, and there was plenty of water to do a search pattern (since the desert had edges). Wish it had sounds and more of a story... what were those things I picked up in the desert? Would have been nice to know. Good job though, decent result. |
| Dec 21 04:25:00 | 7m 00s | The Genetic Playground | The voice over was a good attempt, but you should record it while the text is being displayed so you can get the speed right. You were going a lot slower than the words, and it was on the 2nd part of the speech while you were still on the first part. The game got cluttered REALLY fast, it would be nice if you were able to delete or remove some of the spliced creatures. |
| Dec 21 04:31:00 | 6m 00s | Scanno Domini | Nice game! I enjoyed playing it, need a good end game for improvement, and keep the robot from being able to leave the screen (and thus disappear). Some music would have been nice, but decent sound effects, I enjoyed it, good job mate. |
| Dec 21 04:38:00 | 7m 00s | Trip (n.) - an exciting or unusual experience (source: Merriam-Webster) | Seriously need to tone down those flashes... no reason for that, you can show glimpses of a memory or brief faded information without having to blast the users. I like the wall jump mechanic, I enjoyed the music and the sound effects! The game ended as far as I could tell with a wall... so not really sure how much depth it had, what I could play seemed semi fun. Good job. |
| Dec 21 04:41:00 | 3m 00s | Discover - Collect - Profit | Missing Libpng12.dll unable to execute, Windows 7 64 bit. <br/> <br/>Did not see anything I needed to download or install in your post. |
| Dec 21 04:52:00 | 11m 00s | Improv | I enjoyed playing, I wish there was better direction on what or where to go... the lines did not really mean anything as they ended up point to the top... which didn't help. You can to search around for the next grey ball... which could have used some color on those globes / balls to make them a bit easier to spot, etc. Unless I am missing something, you needed to make the boxes/cubes a bit easier to avoid when they were chasing you... Good game mate, fun for a bit! |
| Dec 22 03:43:00 | 22h 51m | PSIENC - FOR THE GOOD | Very nice graphics! I might have had more fun, but I apparently "discovered" a VAST and completely empty area of space... even short speed bursting over and over could not get me back into the action. I liked the sounds as well. Not the most fun, since I was really bored (after enjoying the graphics) in empty space. Good Job, nice gameplay when I did find someone to kill. |
| Dec 22 03:52:00 | 9m 00s | Looney Ladders | I have no idea what you mean by enter for use... in order to use the elevators you have to press the up arrow. You press the up arrow to use the elevator in either direction (up or down) and press the down arrow to use the dynamite. I have no idea why you ever need the dynamite and I just kept using it by accident while trying to go down elevators over and over :) <br/>I completed the 2nd level and was expecting to unlock the 3rd level, instead I could play the 2nd level again, but it was different... so I am assuming you have a random generator for each level. Should have removed other levels from the screen imo, but it was a decent game and I liked most of the audio! When not blowing myself up with dynamite I had fun. |
| Dec 22 03:54:00 | 2m 00s | Space Station | zip > rar |
| Dec 22 03:55:00 | 1m 00s | Island Commander | Decent effort, not the most fun game in the world, but was fun to play for a little while. |
| Dec 22 03:58:00 | 3m 00s | :ORE: | Well I got all the minerals, and was left disappointed at that point. Decent enough game, just seems like it needed a bit more to make it really fun, at least for me. |
| Dec 22 04:08:00 | 10m 00s | Universal Conquest | Wow this could have been a really fun game, unfortunately it was horrendously boring, and I think I have the vehicle noise stuck in my head forever. No idea how I was mining the zinc, or not as the case might be... the zinc would go up or down randomly (it seemed). I spent a long time trying to collect enough to have credits to buy a new vehicle and eventually gave up. I bought the gold scanner, which apparently would allow me to collect gold, but was never able to find any. I was not able to find anything other than the same sprites on the rock planets, over and over. GREAT concept, it really was, and the framework is there, it just needs lots of tweaks to make it enjoyable to play. |
| Dec 22 04:10:00 | 2m 00s | Compact Discovery | Nice game mate, it kept me entertainment for a little while. I am glad you made a red arrow pointing back to the base, I would have never found a way back. Nice job! |
| Dec 22 04:14:00 | 4m 00s | plixel | Ok, first let me say... discover controls... pretty lame. The game was decent maze game, and I was enjoying it until I died or the game ended for no particular reason. I had collected two of the lights on the 2nd or 3rd level and then while moving through the maze to try and find another light GAME OVER. Uh ok... |
| Dec 22 04:48:00 | 34m 00s | PRIOR | Really nice job with the sound mate, it worked well with the colors and lighting. GREAT work for 48 hours. Just GREAT. The gravity item seemed to not always work consistently, but after enough attempts I was able to keep going. Just the right amount of confusion I think, anymore and I would have wanted to quit. There was one jump I almost gave up, but I didn't so good job at that, although I must admit the ending was anti climatic for all the mood you had set throughout! Anyway, nice job, very well done, 5 stars for fun. |
| Dec 22 04:51:00 | 3m 00s | Quarters | You really should put instructions at least in your posting... I had no idea what I was doing or even what to do after my first turn... sorry mate, might be the best game in the world, but was frustrating for me. |
| Dec 22 04:55:00 | 4m 00s | Life on other planets | I was directly aimed at the enemy, and yet they miraculously survived by bombardment... so it cut my game play short. I liked the graphics very much, but needed some more for fun factor, and enemy not being able to die was just odd. |
| Dec 22 05:04:00 | 9m 00s | Disc Over Y | It ran for me on Windows 7 64 bit. 60 meg download zipped... wow that is big, and the game seemed to live up to that unfortunately... I almost gave up before I got the ability to jump / fly up. I think you should have scaled it down a bit so that your not walking left to the edge drop down, walk to the right edge and drop down, back and forth back and forth, then once you can go up, you have to reverse course... not real fun. Seemed like a good concept, and I do enjoy huge games, if they can keep me entertained. Great job on the music, and the game was decent, if it had been toned down a bit in scale I think it would have been much more fun for me. |
| Dec 22 05:11:00 | 7m 00s | -REACH- | It was ok, decent for time spent. Still, I would have liked to get bigger bonuses to your life, was too easy to end up dead or having to retire... which I guess is fine since you most likely had very little to keep the user entertained in the long run. Nice job, could be a really nice game. I did like the interface, seemed to work fine, would be nice to see how long travel was, but it was fine. |
| Dec 22 05:14:00 | 3m 00s | Eureka! Vaults of Knowledge | Failed to run on Windows 7 64 bit... call me crazy, but your game seems to resemble the game centipede an awful lot... |
| Dec 22 05:18:00 | 4m 00s | plUNDER | Ok, the diving was very difficult to figure out what direction to go based on the camera angle, the perspective did not allow me to see any depth. I loved the map when sailing, that was VERY cool. Good idea, needs a little polish on the diving aspect to be an outstanding game, but it was very nice. |
| Dec 22 05:25:00 | 7m 00s | [Snapture] | I really liked this! It was very nicely implemented with the camera, etc. I thought the game play was very nice, next time put in some type of end game, even if its point total, or total new species captured or something. Very nice, I liked it! |
| Dec 22 05:29:00 | 4m 00s | discoverylaunch | LOL! Ok, this made me think of the old nintendo track and field games where you can to time jumps, etc... albeit not quite as fun, but I liked it pretty well for what it was, nice! |
| Dec 22 05:36:00 | 7m 00s | Husk | The first level was great, but the second level was just too big. I got lost and could not figure out where to go after a while. Controlling the scale would have helped increase the longevity of the fun factor. Nice game, I liked it, just a bit of a scale issues past the first level. Needless to say I was not able to finish. |
| Dec 22 05:39:00 | 3m 00s | Zoobedoo | Talk about overkill and scaling issues. I like the concept and think it would be great, but you need to start off slow and scale up for the users. A simple puzzle at first to get used to the game play and what animals go together. |
| Dec 22 05:44:00 | 5m 00s | Fog of War | I think you need checks in so monsters can't start right next to your castle. Otherwise it seems good, and I enjoyed it, nice game. |
| Dec 22 05:47:00 | 3m 00s | Jungle | LOL it just simply loops! Well, I really like the graphics of the guy and the grass, other than that... well good start. |
| Dec 22 05:51:00 | 4m 00s | Combiner's Dungeon | It was ok, needs some refinement on the game play to make it more fun, thanks for the submission. I liked the concept. |
| Dec 22 17:04:00 | 11h 13m | UNSS Pasteur - Search for a Cure | I had some bad luck and my scanners were reduced to such a small range, I was laughing at how futile it was for me to find planets. The graphics were decent, I liked that you could get improvements or detriments to your ship upgrades. Nice job! |
| Dec 22 17:13:00 | 9m 00s | Tile Walker | Nice job, it got a little boring after a couple levels, same stuff different random generated map :) There was also some weird redrawing issue everytime I moved, was weird. Needed a bit more excitement to be really fun, but it was a nice job mate. Oh, and you need some audio! :) |
| Dec 22 17:22:00 | 9m 00s | Corpse Runner | I like the concept very much, the game play is tedious and frustrating. Some basic idea of where or what the exit was might help. Perhaps have the walls change color as you got closer to the area of the exit? As it was I lined up enough corpses to get the timer up to 90 seconds and still was unable to figure out where to go. Good concept. |
| Dec 22 17:29:00 | 7m 00s | Land of Fodnal | Hmm, so it is a confusing to play minesweeper? LOL, once I figured that out, I at least new what was going on, but pretty boring unless you like minesweeper. |
| Dec 22 17:36:00 | 7m 00s | Grand Mystic Quest of Discovery | Got stuck after 3 rooms... was not able to make the last jump across water... not able to use the block creation spell more than once (so not able to build up stairs to reach another door)... yeah so decent retro graphics, but really boring. |
| Dec 22 21:37:00 | 4h 01m | Here Be Monsters! | Nice game, I just wish there was a way to get 100% of the map explored without spending a long tedious time :) maybe just explore all the cities? Nice job, you need some music! Would be nice if the treasure had some meaning as well. I like the multiple monsters, and things to kill, very nice. |
| Dec 22 21:46:00 | 9m 00s | Mothership | Nice job mate, I wish you had some more audio. The game could use more color besides the green aliens and red hard to aim shooting. Also, I ended up dying right after painstakingly collecting 30 crystals for my suit upgrade, and when I traveled back the planet died right away as I landed right on an alien. Good start, needs some work to be great. |
| Dec 23 03:12:00 | 5h 26m | DISCovery | I've played this game before, and a better version at that. Nice job, but since I had played this before, it was not very interesting or new to me. |
| Dec 23 03:18:00 | 6m 00s | Land Rover Discovery Challenge | Ok, so no end seems silly. You could at least allow the user to select the number of laps to the race... since you have them selecting road... the only available option. Also, the grass seems to slow down the vehicle WAY too much if you have ever raced and ended up heading through the grass... it should be more like ice than quicksand(how you have it now). Also there is no collision detection for the vehicles, which I think would have allowed for better fun, and you should setup some type of difficulty as the computer was WAY too slow to be challenging at all. Decent effort, but a lot of things need to be upgraded. I can confirm it works on Win 7 64 bit :) |
| Dec 23 03:24:00 | 6m 00s | Explosive Transcendental Circulatory System | I discovered your application gave me a tremendous headache. My submission is a horrible game, I admit that, but it is a game, and hopefully makes you laugh... this made me feel ill... I enjoy color, but please... game competition. You obviously can come up with graphics, next time put them toward a accomplishing something with user input toward an event, or goal... |
| Dec 23 03:31:00 | 7m 00s | Ping | I am not a fan of using the theme as an excuse for giving directions to the user... while it seems weird to use sonar to actually be able to see the walls, it worked for me. I did not like the fact I had no idea that I had that ability at first, and was just randomly moving around to find my way through the first level. Then in frustration I hit the spacebar... and the game got better. Still, I could spam hit the spacebar to get the baddies to stay away... just seemed weird. Good job, just not personal cup of tea. |
| Dec 27 02:28:00 | 94h 57m | Colony Tycoon | Decent start, the controls are a little weird, more like surfing than controlling a robot ;) If it had a goal and end game, more purpose, would be great mate. Audio, sound, would be nice :) |
| Dec 27 02:37:00 | 9m 00s | Spacebrick and the Window to the Stars | I love the idea of flying a brick through space! :) I wish I could "kill" some of the ships, they just kept blasting me, so I did not have as much fun as I would have liked... of course I did not find any upgrades, so that might have made it a bit tougher for me. Good job mate. Oh needs some good audio :) |
| Dec 31 06:36:00 | 99h 59m | Forever Cave | Decent job, I like that you had some sound, but it got boring after a while. I wish there was an end game, or some reason to get certain color gems over others, etc. Nice game, I had fun for a few levels avoiding the snakes! Maybe another monster type would have helped? Nice job. |