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[Pyroscape]

Good game

Hey, this is actually a very good game. I really like the video scenes you threw in there, they are funny and help to advance the story a bit further.

I also thought it was funny when Nick found the fire extinguisher and then we could see him with all the stuff he picked up earlier, that was a good joke.

The rest of the game was indeed very straightforward, and I think you could've made it a bit more difficult.

But the game offers a lot of genres and the video sequences are funny, so I guess it's okay that the game elements aren't too hard here.

However, the music didn't loop too well, especially in the car game. So you should try to find a better loop for the games. :P

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Fro responds:

Yeah, I tried to make the song loop better, but it wasn't originally a loop so it was hard. We will reuse the room song, but other than that I think Nick and I will create the rest.

[Hypno8]

Simple yet addictive

I don't know what it is, but this game is highly addictive. Maybe it's because it's so hypnotic. ^^

Anyway, the gameplay is really simple, but somehow it's a lot of fun to play this game. All the distractions work really well while you are trying to focus on the spiral, which is indeed really hard to focus on.

However, I think you should do more with the game. It seems to be the same over and over again, while only the speed increases. I think you should give different paths that the player has to follow, as well as more and more distractions with every level, so that it becomes a real challenge to play this game.

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[Drug the mouse]

Decent

A very simple game, but it's quite fun to play it for a while. It's a nice game to play it while you have a short break, but nothing that you could play for hours and hours.

The controls are a bit unresponsive at first. It gets better once the mouse is drugged up a bit and moves slower, but in the beginning the controls are not that good.

Also the flashing lights where a bit distractive. Sure, the mouse is drugged up, so it should have an effect on the game, but I never was a fan of flashing screens. ^^
Maybe you could simply blurr the background image, or change the colours around in it, I think that would already do the trick.

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MonoFlauta responds:

"A very simple game, but it's quite fun to play it for a while. It's a nice game to play it while you have a short break, but nothing that you could play for hours and hours."

There a very few games like that one :p

"The controls are a bit unresponsive at first. It gets better once the mouse is drugged up a bit and moves slower, but in the beginning the controls are not that good."

You are right -.- it was a weak point

"Also the flashing lights where a bit distractive. Sure, the mouse is drugged up, so it should have an effect on the game, but I never was a fan of flashing screens. ^^"

Haha but they where funny :P

Thanks for reviewing!!!

[Hoshinofuru]

Gets too repetitive too fast

The basics are there. The game mechanics seem to work fine, but the gameplay gets very very repetitive really fast. The only thing I can do in a battle to damage an enemy is a simple attack. The animation gets old really quickly. Also it doesn't involve too much strategy to only press that one button. Some magic elements would be a nice thing here, you could then create monsters that are immune to certain magic attacks and vulnurable to others.

You should also add a mute butto nas the music also gets repetitive very fast.

Also there seem to be some bugs in the game. When you switch monsters the stats change, but not the image. Then the "experience needed" stat seems to be off for the second monster.
Also when you just leveled up, the "experience needed" stat also displays the wrong number.

Overall the game has a lot of potential, but right now it gets too repetitive too fast.
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MonoFlauta responds:

oks thanks a lot for the review... i am accepting ideas for the second part

[Kees' Adventure 3]

Straightforward, yet fun to play

The controls are very easy and they work really well. Of course the game isn't overly complex, but it's still quite funny to play.

I could follow the storyline even though I haven't played the other parts yet, but I guess I will catch up on part 1 and 2 soon.

Maybe the text could be a bit bigger as it was a bit hard to read at times, but that's about the only negative point I have for this game.

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kcnh responds:

Thank you for your review.

[Joe's Minor Adventure]

Simple but solid

When I was a kid there was a TV show where you could play minigames and win lots of money. One of the minigames looked pretty much like this (I'm not saying you copied the idea, just stating similarities here).

The gameplay is very simple, but it makes for a very solid game, that entertains you while you are playing it. The graphics are all pretty good and I liked the little animations in the game (for example that Joe falls out of the mining card when hitting and object). Those small details are what makes the difference between a simple and boring and a simple and funny game. Yours definitely is one of the latter.

The song was funny for a few moments but got boring quickly, so it's nice that you put in an option to mute the music.

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ProfessorFlash responds:

Yeah the animations are great. Thanks for them goes to my buddy Ani-x aka Seoul Snake aka Mos Stef. Joe crashing into a barricade and Joe getting flattened by the train are my two favorite animations :).
Thanks for the review.

[The Ñ]

Simple but enjoyable

This game never gets old, I guess.

While the graphics here aren't the best the game mechanics work pretty well, except for that the ball is right in the middle of the next set of blocks if you finish one level.

A selection of different music styles would be nice, though. It gets boring really quickly to listen to the same song over and over again. Also you should try to lower the filesize of the songs a bit. This flash is nearly 4 MB big, and I think it's because of the music.
While 4 MB might get loaded up pretty quickly it puts unnecessary strain on NGs servers and thus it raises the costs to run the servers (a little example: A game is 4 MB big and it's played by 200 people. That results in 800 MB loaded from the servers.
Another game that is 3 MB big and it's played by 200 people as well. Now there's only a 1 MB difference between those games which today really isn't that much. But the second game only results in 600 MB loaded from the servers, which is 200 MB less than the first game).

Anyway, this is a simple but enjoyable game and I liked playing it.

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TheSongSalad responds:

Thanks for the review man. To put any sort of music in at all, even at low quality, raised the file size quite a lot, your right.

[Keyboard Mayhem]

Funny game, but still some nasty bugs

Sometimes I type in all the ledders needed to push the beast off the cliff and they appear greyed out, but he just won't fall. Instead he regains his balance and starts charging at me again.
Also one time he fell off the cliff, but the letters where still greyed out, so I could do nothing, because I couldn't type in anything.
Then, the medal pop up doesn't really work. It just says "medal get", but there's no text at all on the pop up.

Last but not least, (not a bug, but I still found it nasty) I think typing random letters is just too hard. They are all over the keyboard so it's very hard to get them all in time. I think the words just should be longer and maybe the beast is only pushed away when you type in the last letter, or something like that. Would still be better than having to type random letters, imo.

Anyway, the game still is funny, even though it's quite short for an experienced typer (well, Skitz was too hard for me, but up until this point I hadn't any trouble at all). The music sounds funny too, but I really think there should be an option to turn it off as it got annoying really fast.

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[Avoidance 3]

Interesting at first, but gets boring quickly

It's interesting at first, but the patterns repeat themselvs very quickly. Also the levels don't seem to get harder the further you got, but some of the later leves seem to be even easier than the previous ones.

The main problem I had with this game is the hit detection. Sometimes I died even though I didn't touch anything. There was plenty of room between me and the rockets/bullets but yet I died.

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TheSongSalad responds:

Thanks for the review, I think that the level progression could use some work, and the hit detection is a very common complaint. Thanks for the review, it's appreciated.