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[Babel Adventure]

had potential. but much of the damage is unavoidable and if you have health that kills you when depleted, why also do we lose currency when we take damage..?

DaShahRach00 responds:

I think losing all the coins when the player dies is a better idea since it avoids overusing the items in the shop.
I had an approach that was a little too “retro” in term of level design, sorry for that
The game is difficult, maybe a little too difficult, thank you for pointing that out ! The next games will be easier

[BORE BLASTERS demo]

cool. but i'm guessing the demo doesn't show much about the core gameplay loop.

Asvegren responds:

That's right, this demo doesn't include any meta-progression or the narratives and quests in the campaign mode.

[Atomic: REDUX]

great. wish there were more classic levels and more upgrades. and the bounce/phase modes can be tossed. they add nothing to the game.

re: dev - no. the bounce/phase really add nothing to the game that players would care about. rather than considering them completely distinct game modes with separate upgrades/etc., you should have a way for the player to set modifiers and they could enable them there. some kind of creative mode. because those tiny changes that don't affect gameplay at all don't deserve to be distinct game modes. another modifier could be gravity.

some additional upgrade ideas:

-chance for expanded stuff to explode into projectiles when they die. call these projectiles "ghost balls" that can collide and blow stuff up but don't need to die to hit milestones for stars/completion (i.e. they can only help you)

blit-blat responds:

Huh, I thought bounce/phase modes added a nice little extra twist to the game. Other than more levels is there anything else you would added to expand the game, or prefer to just keep it simple?

[George The Gentleman Frog]

too busy and the handling is pretty unpleasant. and i have no idea why music is playing at all times other than... gameplay. that makes about as much sense as as the game overall so i guess it's par for the course.

pugfuglygames responds:

Thanks for the feedback! Have just released a new version with far fewer enemies, cheers.

[Jack The Racoon]

garbage music. but nice art.

RicardoReyesPaz responds:

I know the music isn't very good, I'm not at all a musician. I'm glad you liked the art though! Thanks for your comment

[Slippery Delivery]

very weird and difficult to play. wish it wasn't so frustrating. i like the look of it a lot.

a way to cancel a jump is beyond required. among other aspects of the mechanics.

RowanFuture responds:

That's fair! Thanks for playing!

[Arsenal Online]

really just genuinely bad. badly designed badly executed.

the way the camera spazzes around from mouse movement is unbelievable

the sheer number of prompts and menus i had to spam my way through to get into a game was unreal.

it's like all the bloat of an EA style AAA without any of the quality or fun.

re author: imagine being so incapable of accepting criticism that your goto response to someone calling you out on the shortcomings of your work is to accuse them of trolling.

WilkinGames responds:

Nice troll review!

[Yule Duel]

I didn't get the medal for 25 cards.

AxolStudio responds:

0 = Mute
+ / - = Volume Control

These are the default sound controls for every Flixel/HaxeFlixel game.

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According to your profile, you DO have that medal.
I'm not sure what's going on with that one - it seems to be the #1 comment we get: "I didn't get the last medal" only to go check and they have it after all.
All the logic for giving that medal is the same as giving the other 2 - did you get notified when you got those properly?
Did you have to re-load your game to get the last one?

This bug has me stumped, unfortunately, but I'd rather people get the medal and not realize it than not be able to get medal at all.
Sorry.

[Energy Quest]

full screen is buggy

having to sit through dialog that has a hard delay between each message even when spamming keys on each death and reselect the level is crazy. there's a glitch where when you take damage your robot glitches to the bottom of the level. the music is quite terrible.

despite ALL these minor to major problems, it's still fun. it could have been a five if you hadn't messed up these obvious things though.

MartinJacob responds:

Thank you for your feedback, several points of which I have just submitted to the backlog. We did not mention that you can press R to restart a level instantly - this will be the case in future versions.
Have a nice day!

[Looping Larceny]

excellent. the air handling is atrocious though. but i liked everything else about it.

bluswimmer responds:

Thanks for the feedback!