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[BLOCK SPOT]

solved puzzle 1. no medal.

solved puzzle 10. no medal.

didn't like that i couldn't drag pieces around like on a tabletop. hated that i'd drag a little then let go and it'd fling back. very user unfriendly.

above all, hated that i couldn't skip to harder levels.

in puzzle games, it is an absolutely unforgivable cardinal sin to force players to play dozens of easy levels. what a waste of time.

RedYellowGreen responds:

1) Medals work. Perhaps you were expecting a notification, but it was not implemented. Look at your profile, there are medals.

2) Good idea about a tabletop.

3) Yes, unfortunately, some levels are superfluous.

I'll try to make this game more friendly in terms of control.

Thank you!

[Shark Blaster (Gille's View)]

Main menu: I used arrow keys to navigate between play and credits, but space, enter, and x did nothing to select the option. I don't know how to select it. I tried with the mouse etc.

Note that I do not read Author comments to learn how to play a game. If the game doesn't organically make it apparent, then it was designed poorly. I read author comments later if I decide I really like a game.

gillenew responds:

sorry about that =P

[Tiny Golden Temple]

Ewwwwwww at the low gravity. It feels so horrible.

xhunterko responds:

I am pretty sure that is lag. Thank you for playing though! ^^

[Hare]

I died and had to sit through intro and even select adventure mode again.

The handling feels bad. No matter what as you coast down after dashing or w/e, you will never land on a platform.

The difficulty isn't balanced well.

Also, in game there is a lot of non-english stuff at the start when teaching you controls which... well now that I think of it, I was rating this 2.5, but I'm lowering it to 1.5 for that.

Zelun responds:

No prob! Thanks for the input. Gonna check those things about the localization files! Sorry :D

[GRAND ADVENTURE! (STORY COMPLETE)]

I'd like to point something out. On your first release of this you mentioned "It is unfinished. It's like 95% done but the last little bits never quite came together. Programmer after programmer dropped out before it could all be quite placed how I wanted."

I think it's unkind that you did not give credit to the other programmers who worked on this. That is very unprofessional.

Emptygoddess responds:

They were unprofessional for bailing!

That said... most of them i don't have contact info for. And none of them respond to me when I try, like honestly.

[Attack Robots, Sydney Alpha Test 0.1]

Can you explain why you thought space would be a good key for shooting? Lol.

TIFkey responds:

I just feel so comfortable, I can not adapt to all, everyone has their own office. In the future there will be options. Where you can change controls.

[Aquacreep]

I liked absolutely nothing about this. Honestly... ugh. The only feedback that I could give you that would be helpful would be seen as offensive. So I won't.

TheMillz responds:

Not everything is for everyone I guess...

[Jetpic]

I found the one in the image linked to in the review before me pretty much impossible to get to even with all previous power ups. Of course I tried tapping. You never needed to mention that. It was obvious.

So I cheat engined my fuel to get it and beat the game.

You overtuned that part.

Do you know what that means?

That means you were the developer. Despite you probably being bad at games, you were overly good at that part because you tweaked and tweaked it and were the one who designed it and playtested and over playtested. In the end it resulted in something with too small a margin of error.

Does that make sense to you? Are you able to grasp that?

Also, add a metroidvania tag.

Donpatch-XD responds:

See Gdrocker's Review for the answer you seek : )

[Zombie Cannon Attack!]

Rubble games... and a zombie or something under it.

And it sits there.. forever.

Great title screen that never progresses.

RubbleGames responds:

Can you give me a bit more info please, such as browser and os?

[Dark Medieval Times Alpha Demo]

"destroy the weapons with your hammer to get resources" etc.

uhm. pressing a does nothing. you don't even have a weapon at the start.

also nothing tells you how to close the prompts that pop up. 'd' is not an obvious key for that. i had to spam my keyboard.

very bad player training.

DarkenSoft responds:

Tutorial say:"Destroy the objects with the Hammer Icon to gather materials".
You need a weapon to do that, and the weapon is in a chest.

To close the menu just watch the help bar in the bottom right corner.