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[Hexagon Tribute]

Why is this so slow?

I know for a fact Hexagon doesn't run at 6fps.

And that 300 seconds is 5 minutes, not 30. The "seconds" in this game are inflated to ridiculous proportions.

Your game runs on valve time.

Zanzlanz responds:

It's not slow unless your computer runs it slow.

[Cathode Raybots]

The gameplay was good, while a bit laggy. But that's Adobe's fault, not yours.

However, I have to mention the biggest gripe, which is in the UI.

I thought that I was choosing a character, not a game mode. You know, like play as a robot, or play as a human. But apparently human means "Campaign", and robot means "Level Editor". And there are NO labels to indicate this, not even if I hover over the human or robot; I'm just supposed to magically know what it means.

It's pretty and all, but that's mystery meat navigation right there. A UI flaw that should always be avoided, where the developer designs something that is cryptic and/or uses vague images in an artistic way, but the UI suffers, and some to most users won't figure out wtf is going on.

Graphics, programming, sound, and controls were top notch, though.

4/5, -1 star for the Mystery Meat Navigation

TomFulp responds:

There is a line of text along the bottom of the screen when you rollover each character, although it is kinda easy to miss. It does explain the difference, though. Beyond that the UI in general is pretty mysterious, the game could definitely guide people through better than it does. I should still put in some help screens at the least.

[Cab In The Woods]

+Flashlight effect. Nice touch

+Music is good

+Most of the art is good

+Medals

-Fail on not using Mouse.hide() to hide the real cursor.

-Music is repetitive and gets annoying quickly

-Barely any plot, if not none

-Not interesting, I got bored in 2 minutes

-Tries to be scary, but fails

-Graphics could use some more work

-Slow and laggy, needs optimization

-Controls are wonky and stiff as fuck

-Not immersive at all

-Atmosphere is lacking.

-Repetitive gameplay

-Making the player jump through hoops with inane excuses like "Oh by the way, Slender hates zombies, so you aren't allowed to run them over even though that would logically make him happy". Bonus points for the excuse contradicting itself.

Final score: 4 pros / 14 cons = 0.286 = 3/10 = 1.5/5

Since you only had 2 days to make this, however, I'll give an extra half-star.

2/5

Seppyb63 responds:

Cheers for the review :D, The break down does help alot, as personally this is my first real flash game.We more did this for the jam than anything else, cause we love jams,having attended like...5ish jams in the last 2-3 years.We learned loads, that we will hopefully put in the next of our games...if we make another flash game, i don't know....it so hard to make "original" games in flash, since there are millions of games out there already, meh, ill make something over the summer.. :D

[Pac-Man Test]

One thing: If you give two shits about your game, you should test it. Saying "I don't know if it will work" indicates you didn't test run the game before submitting it.

Imagine if Namco didn't test Pac-Man, and it turned out that they had forgotten to declare a global variable that ties the enemy AI together, breaking the enemies and destroying the fun and challenge that would have started a long and successful career. Just because they were too lazy to test run and/or hire a QA team for the game.

Human error will happen 90% of the time during programming. Yes, even using a simplified piece of garbage like Stencyl, there is room for error.

The lack of testing shows, as the bugs you mentioned do in fact happen. But that's not it. You should also pay notice to design flaws.

Off the top of my head:

* The enemy AI is poor. There are entire articles devoted to the AI on the Ghosts. It's pretty advanced, so you should read up.

* Pac-Man moves too slowly.

* Pac-Man is far too big.

* Pac-Man doesn't have a gradient; he's just plain yellow.
There's a thing called "KISS" which stands for "Keep it simple, stupid"

* I couldn't find any power pellets.

* Pac-Man is not supposed to move solely by input, in the original game, he continuously moves, the only controls being that you can change his direction.

I'll give a 2/5 for the effort, but next time, I won't be so generous.

LILCAPADRE023 responds:

thank you for explaining how i should fix the game and i enjoyed the KISS thing...

[YOU LOSER VERY BIG]

Be careful about making intentionally crappy games.

There is a fine line between what gets a game blammed or saved, cross it and it could get blammed

I voted 2/5 because I think this might pass.

BestGamesInc responds:

OK but this game will pass, wise choice on your part.

[Hunt of HORROR]

Great game, but there were some minor glitched

Like the fact that I found all 100 horrors and did not get the sexual lobster medal

4/5

deathink responds:

hmmm... I will look in to this for you, sorry about that.

[The Most Easy Game Ever]

Since this isn't a game, and the medal pops up every 10 seconds showing a clear lack of foresight in the programming, I am going to give a vote of 0/5 stars.

We don't need another B

SwagMuffin responds:

Your name has a B in it

[Battle Arkade]

From the face value of "ZOMG NYAN CAT SPACE ADVENTURE", I thought, this was gonna be cheesy. But when it turned out to actually have a story, (Very) well-designed GUI, great background music, and is a fucking HORIZONTAL BREAKOUT GAME with PHYSICS, my face went :D

Super fun.

4.5/5 Review Score
5/5 Vote Score
+Fave
+Fan

boomware responds:

Tnx very much for your comment, I hope that more people comment.

[Kandinsker]

Nothing like a pink strip saying "You Win" with a bunch of fireworks to end a day.

Challenging and fun! Took me about 15 min. to beat

5/5

Daench responds:

15 minutes? Wow, that is fast. I think you are officially a Kandinsker champ.

[Second Wind]

Very fun and challenging. Good replay value (I wasn't logged in to get the medals :( ). Though confusing at the beginning, the tutorial doesn't seem to do justice. Overall it's a brilliant game. And I'm happy to give it a 5/5

squidly responds:

The lack of tutorial is on purpose - the game's about exploring, figure it out, click around, almost everything has a description/hint!