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[Cursor Game]

Best Enemies Ever

Communist Zeppelins + Evil Faeries = Awesome. However the game itself was not that good. Since I like non pointless reviews I'll tell you that you should make the enemies flash red or crack or something when you hit them. Also some kind of evident (i couldn't tell any) difference between the cursors (such as doing more damage or whatnot) would help make this game more unique. The cursor powerups should also be less frequent (if I recall correctly a new one spawns every time you pick one up). Great graphics though and nice concept that could have gone way farther. Sounds were lacking in general; I didn't really mind the music as much as everyone else but the sound effects weren't good, you should have had an explosion for the zeppelins or something.

Funkylikamonkey responds:

Thanks for the long review :D
I'll definately take it into account if I may another one.

[Nimian Hunter]

Awesome Graphics, Terrible Gameplay

There's way more to game making then graphics and 3d programming. A huge problem with this game was the lack of instructions. I started off walking in the opposite direction of the big green markers so I had no idea to go towards them. After spending about 5 minutes trying to catch birds I turned around and realized the markers were there. Second, this game was incredibly boring. Running around repetitive scenery (no matter how good it looks for flash) is just no fun. The game was incredibly easy and the plot was quite frankly terrible. Apparently I destroyed the world so now I have to feed a big red head to revive it by riding around on a horse and catching bugs with a lasso. Then, after flying on a giant bug and the big red head, who I'm told is named Xexis, I am now magically teleported back to my horse to run up to a big blue head with a little body. Here I am magically turned into a statue which somehow revives the world. Do you have any idea how ridiculous that all sounds? Anyway good graphics. Bad story, gameplay, and game design.

popopt responds:

That brough a smile to my face and made me laugh:) i mean, sure, you're right...running around a desert land feeding dissembodied heads and roping flying centipedes is ridiculous compared to real life, and its funny to get a good roasting from a player. Thanks for the graphics compliments and ill work on the story part in the future

[Basic Shading tutorial]

Very bad tutorial...

But nice design. The first step to teaching shading is ALWAYS telling people to use one light source to relate all the shading around. Your "Line Shading" of the box isn't correct; the top side of the 3-D box isn't even shaded with the same light source of the other side. Your "Shrinking and recoloring method" example was what really ruined all hope for the usefullness of this tutorial. You my friend have just shown everyone how to pillow shade, a very bad technique of shading. Pillow shading is were the light source of your object is seemingly inside the shape (with it's lightest point being in the middle and it's darkest at the edges). The only time pillow shading is realistic is when the object is a source of light such as a light bulb, or, assuming that your "ball" is a sphere, that the light is coming straight from the viewer. This is all kind of hard to explain without pictures. Anyway, as I said, nice design on the tutorial I just wished you were a little more informed on the topic.

Pilgr1m responds:

ok

~sideral

[Athalina RPG]

Brought down by a major flaw

I was having a pretty positive experience until I tried the berry getting quest and realized three things:
1)There are a limited number of enemies in the forest with no respawn
2)The enemies drop berries at random and there aren't five specific enemies that drop the berries (you need five berries to finish).
3)There is no way to leave the forest after starting the quest without getting all of the berries and even if you save and reload you do not save your levels obtained while the forest.
Thus, this amounted to the conclusion that even if you killed every monster in the forest there is still the chance you do not get enough berries and you must save, reload, and start all over again. I did this, tried again, failed again and gave up on the game.

LonLonRanch responds:

3)Your wrong, you can get out of the forest by going to the West wall enterence (where your started) and if you step on the Silver plate it even says "Press Spacebar to go back to town. And If you save and load you would end up in town with all progress. So with that said, I invite you to go back and try again, if you want to of course.

[Jumpish The Game]

Nice Simple Game

That was a nice simple game. I liked the graphics and the little characters design except it would have been better if he walked/turned instead of gliding/flipping.

darkhole-dk responds:

Ye, the paper"bug", many people got frustrated over that. Thank you anyway :)