Score: 8

"A nice Wumpus remake!"

submission: Hunt The Wumpus

date: February 12, 2008

Ah, the Wumpus! Good stuff. Of course, the original Wumpus caves were a dodecahedron, not a grid. ;) Still, this was quite good, I enjoyed the logic exercise. There were just a couple of things I felt were problems: First, the interface. It was clumsy to keep pressing all those keys all the time. You should let people actually press keys on their KEYBOARD. ;) Second, I thought the death penalty was too large. It's really not hard to die from random chance in this game. I mean, if you start out "you feel a breeze" you have a 1 in 2 chance of dying...(Hm, you could change the level generation so that there's never a pit or Wumpus right next to the start position?) Anyway, good job, but it could be better. ;)

Score: 6

"Good try, sort of"

submission: Shape-a-licious

date: February 11, 2008

Sort of okay, but it had a couple of big problems. First, the controls were so floaty...It was like the star was moving around on ice, slipping and sliding all over the place, really hard to control. Second, I got to a certain point and died. I mean, my life just went down until it was game over. There was no reason for it that I could determine. It just kind of vanished. After something like that I don't feel like playing the game any more.

Score: 7

"It's okay"

submission: The Unfair Platformer

date: February 4, 2008

It's an okay Flash take on "I Wanna Be The Guy". Easier than IWBTG, but still pretty difficult.

Score: 8

"Interesting..."

submission: Coil

date: February 1, 2008

I enjoyed this game. For one thing, the graphics were excellent. You really felt like you were looking into a microscope at stuff. The graphics really evoked what (I think) you were trying to evoke.) The music was simple, but it fit. No sound, and there were times when some sound might have been nice, but that's a stylistic decision.

The control scheme was interesting. As far as I can tell, clicking the mouse never does anything. If so, I think you should mention that in the "instructions". (I mean, I had lots of trouble going through the screens of text! Eventually I figured out that you just spin the mouse around.) So, moving and hovering is what you need in this game...that's cool. The idea of a game "without instructions" is not truly original, of course, but this one worked pretty well. I think each "stage" was simple enough that it wasn't too hard to figure out what to do. (The most difficult was the one falling down the screen while little things tried to push you back up...I eventually decided that spinning yourself was the way to get it working most consistently. Am I right?)

The one thing that really disappointed me about the game is that it didn't have a conclusion. What is this weird little creature, who is "she", what's going on with "her" and how are they connected? There's no explanation, no closure. That's definitely disappointing.

Still, while it wasn't perfect, I'd say it was a worthy effort.

Score: 3

"Pointless?"

submission: Circle Un-Avoid

date: January 30, 2008

I don't understand, I click the circle and it says ".5" or ".4"? Every now and then it says ".8". The circle doesn't ever move, though. That's what I was expecting, the circle to move.

Score: 8

"Pretty good"

submission: Spin the black circle

date: January 29, 2008

Pretty good. I've seen games like this before, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. This one was well executed. I like how you gave lots of tips on what the controls were and how to do things. (Once or twice it seemed like there were TOO many tips, but you know, it's better to have too many than too few. ;) )

My ONE problem with the game...You couldn't play it entirely with the keyboard. I mean, you DO play it entirely with the keyboard...EXCEPT that you have to use the mouse to press "Next Level". I have my right hand pressing the arrow keys for a while, going through the game...and then suddenly I have to move it over to the mouse for just a moment to get it to the next level, then move it back to the keyboard...Really, it would be much better to have a keypress move to the next level. If you want to "pause" and let them see their score, then make it something like "Press Enter for next level" instead of "press any key".

Anyway, good job.

Score: 7

"Meh"

submission: Fish Quest

date: January 13, 2008

It seemed like a good game, nice concept, okay graphics. However, I got to the boss fight and couldn't pass it. I was typing in the commands and I would keep suddenly dying. And I'm SURE I wasn't pressing the wrong commands. And since typing in the commands is the only thing you can do, I don't see what I could have done differently. So, all in all I didn't really like it.

Score: 5

"Fishtail ho"

submission: Blood Car 2000!

date: January 9, 2008

Talk about your floaty controls, I was fishtailing all over the place. You really need to tighten those up. The basic game was okay. I get what you were going for with the whole "retro" graphics, but overall it just seemed kind of...meh.

Score: 6

"Huh..."

submission: High School Hentai

date: December 24, 2007

Dude, you need to check some of your answers.

Silver's electron configuration is 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10 4p6 5s1 4d10.
Diamonds may be formed from coal, but they're certainly *made of* Carbon.
This is a small problem, but I don't think you're using "AMU" correctly, you really mean "atomic weight". AMU is a unit of atomic weight, yes, but it's like asking "which of these measures kilograms -> mass". It seems backwards.
i^2 = -1. Unless you consider "i" to be just some random variable, in which case what's the point of the question at all?
"Eternal darkness" was a plague, unless you mean that it wasn't eternal, it only lasted for three days...I thought the answer was "cattle", because while the fifth plague killed livestock, it wasn't a plague of, like, TOO MANY cattle.
Black Death = Bubonic Plague.
Your question about Henry VII should mention that it refers to the Holy Roman Emperor.

As for the game itself, well, it was okay. I'm not too impressed with images you find on random websites. If I wanted images like that I could go to those websites myself...

Score: 6

"Polished and buggy, if that makes any sense?"

submission: The Domino Knight

date: December 20, 2007

It looked like someone put a lot of work into this game, because the graphics and sound were all pretty good...But somehow it was just unplayable. One time I played, I got a bridge of dominoes going all the way across the screen but it didn't work for some reason. The level only ended after I put like three more dominoes down. Also, it wouldn't let me pick up certain dominoes, and I had trouble putting the dominoes down where I wanted. Very strange, and frustrating.