Not bad. :)
Nice title screen. :) The control feels a little sloppy. I've always felt all action game characters should stop on a dime when I take my hand off the key. Ruined controls is not the same thing as a legitimate challenge. Also, when you lose, it looks like all the trash you collected gets dumped on the ground again. You should probably destroy those objects (or hide/move them) before the end screen.
Nice concept, some execution flaws.
Like everyone else is saying, getting stuck in the rocks sucks. What you want is a "projection" collision/reaction system instead of the simple hittest/deflection model you seem to be using. Also, I don't like the invisible wall of certian death just to the right of the town. Especially with the more powerful jet upgrades, when I'm coming in hot I need to be able to swing around in a wide arc, dodging cacti, and spiral in towards my goal.
Personally, I liked the music. The game doesn't last long enough for it to get too annoying, and it's a damn sight better than the 5 second atonal piano music MP3s they give you by default.
Some buildings around the well, and some wiggis who cheer when you deposit your water would be nice cosmetic additions.
And I agree that the arrow should point towards the fullest oasis. Weighted arrows that show the relative depth of each oasis would be nice, but trickier to program, and maybe a bit too complex for a 5 year old to read.
Wish I'd thought of that...
Maybe it's just me, but rubbing my mouse on the desk felt almost exactly like scrubbing a plate. Story-wise, no, SilverSurge was right, the kids will see right through this edutainment crap. But on a subtler, more insidious level, well... kids are scrubbing and earning experience points for it. If they grind on this 5 days a week at school during computer lab to earn wogs, it just might form a habit. Sure beats the "talk to the NPCs and then choose to do the right thing" paradigm. This invokes muscle memory! The only way it could get any purer would be to combine this with Chore Wars.
thnx! I couldn't believe i came up with it too.
Wow! A game on NG with viable controls?
Great job on the collision detection. Most of the time games of this sort are impossible when all the food's overlapping, but you managed to pull it off. The stuff I was trying to catch went in, and the stuff I was trying to dodge never did, even in the busier moments. Nice!
Thank edit-undo for that one. Thanks!
Is one player meant to control this?
Or is it intended for like, 6 kids, all sitting at the same keyboard?
I have to admit this isn't quite what I expected. It doesn't really teach the kids anything (other than "eat the food that falls from the sky if it's the same color as you,") I suppose it could be a metaphor for "eating right," but I don't think most kids will think about it that deeply.
Also, if it's intended for multiple players, you should be aware that it emphesizes competition more than teamwork. I'm just saying.
Great surface, though. Nice thick line work. I can do that. :)
Ha ha, no it's meant for one player, but it really does stretch your mind to play. As for the educational aspect, I think that somehow that part got over-emphasized, I'd much prefer an entertaining non-educational game, to a boring educational one. But entertaining AND educational would be the ultimate combo. Besides, this game teaches rhythm skills, which is a valuable tool for youngsters :P
Not bad!
Hey, nice to see that you added more levels & music. I died at the level with the 2 extremely fast enemies and no walls... not quite sure how you win that one, lol. Seems impossible. But yeah, overall this is a big improvement. Good job.
The only suggestion I can make would be to do a "press enter to continue" screen instead of a "click here" screen between levels. Why? Well, taking my right hand off the arrow keys and reaching for the mouse is a problem. It breaks the flow of the gameplay and costs me a split-second of action at the start of each ambush. Just tapping enter would be quicker & easier from the player's point of view.
I realize that from the programmer's perspective, capturing keyboard events can be tricky. Sometimes a key pressed on one screen can read as "still pressed" on the next frame or whatever. But as long as the key you use to change levels (enter, space, etc,) has no effect on general gameplay, you should be okay.
It%u2019s not as good as it could be.
What we have here is your typical "commissioned" flash game. All the earmarks are here: Lots of effort poured into the artwork. "Inoffensive" corporate-approved characters. The simplest game engine ever ripped from Flashkit. No more than two moving objects on the screen at a time (Gotta make sure the 1% of the audience playing this on a 486 can enjoy it, dontcha know.) No scrolling whatsoever. Constant dying through no fault of your own. And of course, ads all over the place. It%u2019s a real winner, all right!
I would normally temper my response because I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings, but somehow I doubt the publisher of this game has any intention of maintaining the game or responding to feedback. When you can't even be bothered to take the broken unicode characters out of your promotional text, that's a pretty sure sign of apathy.
All of that said... well, they tried. It's long. The art is pretty. C minus.
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Another great puzzler. I love the intrigue.
I liked the storytelling in this one a lot. The shooting stage was a nice twist, and it was well-executed, balanced, and easy to comtrol even though I was unexpectedly thrust into it.
Dialogue was great. I especially enjoyed the quote when he first looked in the mirror. Finding the matches was pretty annoying, though. I assumed since I couldn't see them after they fell to the floor, that they no longer existed in the game. Had to read the FAQ for that one.
I'm begining to sense that all of your point & click adventures will involve clicking the edges of furniture to find neccessary, hideen stuff. I guess I'll just have to get used to it.
Great game... A little slippery in places.
A powerfully compelling opening theme is followed by some relatively simple puzzles in a tiny, 3-room environment. The graphics were good, including some very detailed (if stiffly-animated) monsters. The flickering of the overhead light added a nice touch of ambiance, though of course that ended as soon as you solved the lightbulb puzzle.
Text descriptions help carry the story, but detract slightly from immersion. (Compared to, say, the Machine series, or Myst, which rely almost solely on point & click and graphics to communicate with the player.) I felt the journal writing was a little drab... like it didn't really give me much insight into the character of the villian, but maybe that's because I was expecting something simmilar to what I've seen before in other horror games.
Music was very well done, and always used to add ambiance and mood to various scenes. Sound effects were a little sparse, and occasionally repetitive, but nothing seemed like a sound was missing, and none of the sounds he did use felt out of place.
I ended up using the walkthrough, and I'll tell you why: some of the puzzles involve just magically knowing where to click. There's no indication, for example, that there's anything worth clicking over there on the left hand side of the bookcase. Yet you absolutely must click there in order to find a golden piece. Random clicking doesn't work either, because you're liable to click yourself back or into another room while searching for the hidden buttons.
Some sort of glimmer on the floor on the side of the bookcase and refrigerator, or a more visible hiding spot for these pieces, might have made the game more managable by providing a unified gameplay paradigm.
Also, I didn't like the key hidden behind the Godlimations ad. The reason is, having clicked on the ArmorGames ad, I figured that clicking any part of the Godlimations ad would just open up that website an interrupt my game. It took me a long time to get desperate enough to try clicking there. Again, consistancy in your game mechanics is a must.
That said, not every instance where this game broke its own mold was neccessarily a bad thing. When I turned on the lights and found the mud monster coming at me, I knew what I had to do. It was the last thing I expected in a puzzler, too, so it was a good surprise.
So yeah, while it may be a little obtuse in places, overall it's a great game. I was really surprised by that twist ending... and unless I miss my guess, I think the weird design of the screwdriver and the voices on the phone may have been a metaphor hinting at the perspective implied by the ending. (Heh, I think I managed to express that idea with no spoilers. ^.^)
Great job, Patrick. I'm gonna go play your other games now. Keep up the good work! :)
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Graphics: Intro and start/end of level looks pretty decent, and carries a theme consistantly. Unfortunately the endless oven or flu or whatever that metal and brick tunnel is supposed to be is the most boring sight ever to grace a video game screen.
Style: Okay, I admit it. The theme got my attention. But the middle of the game... you know, the most important part? The part I spend 99% of my game experience on? Yeah, that part is tasteless and dull, like a crust with no toppings.
Sound: Doo doo duh duh. Dun da da duhh! Dun a doodle da dun doodle dun da doo dun. MAKE IT STOP!
Interactivity: A competently executed rip-off of the most trite game ever, keepy-uppy.
Overall: Let me get this straight. You expect me to play keepy-uppy for like, ten hours, just so I can get what I already saw on the title screen? And this is fun to you?
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