Score: 5

"Needs a lot of work."

submission: Super Mario Flash(Game)

date: August 23, 2004

Particularly your hit detection and collision response. I know it's not easy, I still hear complaints of "the frogs killed me when I wasn't even NEAR them" in my platforming game, but when I hit the turtle's a little too much to the side and somehow get moved about 150 pixels to the left (much further away from the turtle than I should) and therefore miss a platform, you know there's a problem.

Also, if you're going to rebuild a game almost carbon copy, the game should feel the way the original does. Koopas should leave their shells, Mario should bounce appropriately off enemies, pirahna plants should stop coming out of their pipes when you're standing right next to them, etc. Without these, the game really felt stiff, and it would have been more worth my time to play the original that's sitting five feet away from me than play your alternative.

Nice try, but you still have a lot of work to go.

Score: 8

"Eh, kinda cool."

submission: Checkpoint... Done

date: August 23, 2004

But the guy who played the game in your movie must have been 5 years old. You have to really, really, suck to play the game like that. I couldn't really relate to it, because even though the Library level was long and difficult, you exagerrated the experience to the point where I couldn't suspend my disbelief.

I'd be more enjoyable if you had 8 enemies on the screen at once, pouncing at you from all sides, you moving almost constantly backwards while shooting as fast as you can, stressing out because you can't possibly have enough ammo to last the next couple minutes, etc.

I also rather like that level, personally. It gives you a sense of dread that no game has been able to give me before.

Score: 9

"Very clever."

submission: Invisibility

date: August 20, 2004

A very clever game. Very addictive. Don't see why everyone rated it so low, personally. It's great in its simplicity.

Keep em coming.

Score: 8

"Yes!"

submission: Manga-Gaga 100 Omake

date: August 17, 2004

Pretty fun to watch, in a completely-random-but-in-tempo-with-the-song type of way.

Score: 7

"Pretty good."

submission: Tank Escape

date: August 12, 2004

I like the game, but the hit testing is too unforgivable. I see a bullet five feet away from me one frame, and then the next frame it disappears and has hit me? It's hard to figure out how to dodge that. I understand you're just moving the bullet at a set velocity, but perhaps if you doubled the FPS and lowered the velocity per frame it would be easier to see where to dodge?

Good concept though. All about timing, and choosing which path to take. I like it.

Score: 9

"Wow, you're right."

submission: Muay Thai V. 3.0

date: August 10, 2004

You can't edit a submission after 5,000 views. I just tried to update Proximity to prove you wrong, but it stopped me. That sucks, I wonder why they've done that? (Probably that High Tail High being deleted that caused some havok). It sucks that you have to keep submitting it, because you keep taking Daily Features away from other people, and worse for you, the first game is the one that's linked to the front page, not your updates.

Anyway, your game is pretty cool, and it seems you fixed the bug where the 2nd boss froze in place. Your GUI/menus/text look awful though, aesthetically, and could really use some work. And I also think it's complete bullshit that Akuma killed me with a special that made the screen go black and took off over half of my life, undodgeable. I don't care if he is the last guy, that was stupid and unfair.

I can't believe you programmed this in Flash 4. It looks like you had about quadruple the code that you would have had if you programmed this in Flash 5 or MX (I snuck a peek). Take some time to learn Flash MX sometime. It's worth it.

Score: 6

"Almost..."

submission: Gig Racer

date: August 10, 2004

The game is well made in just about every respect except 1) the resolution is small, so it's hard to see what's on the screen, and 2) the objects move across the screen too fast so by the time you identify whether the object is something to grab or dodge it's too late to react. Other than that, great game, and a good marketing tool.

Score: 6

"Oh, the controls...."

submission: College U-Fighting Game

date: August 10, 2004

I wanted to like it, but I couldn't get the controls to work almost at all, and even when it did work, the moves looked and felt extremely stiff. You need to work on this a lot more, man.

Score: 6

"Feels empty..."

submission: Ninja Air Combat

date: August 5, 2004

I really like your games in theory. Their style, characters, sound, presentation, controls are all top notch. And I also feel like I'm playing the minigames on slot machines when I play your games, and that's also the problem. Your games tend to be so repetitive and mindless that I have trouble playing the games for more than two minutes.

Ninja Air Combat isn't an exception. The concept is brilliant, Ninjas and anime schoolgirls instead of spaceships in an otherwise standard shooter, but there's no real strategy or skill involved. The screen's too hectic to really maneuver well. I end up relying on getting larger and larger attacks to clear the screen of enemies that don't even fight back, for the most part. There's a lot you could do with the genre and theme that you didn't, and for that I'm rather disappointed in the game.

I'll still keep checking out your work, but there's a reason why I never play the slots at casinos. They're more of a chore than a joy to play.

Score: 6

"Artists!"

submission: Ninya The Game

date: August 5, 2004

Don't ya just hate it when an artist loses motivation and stops making art for you games? I know I do :D. Although I've stopped coding games too, so I'm not entirely blameless, but it still gets annoying, especially when you're just days away from completing it.

Anyway, nice concept, except I couldn't really get into it. The enemies just took too long to die, and you really don't have much variety of moves at the very beginning of the game. It would have been better if all the attacks did some sort of damage from the beginning and you only witheld the combos until later. Also it would be nice if the attacks we're significantly different (range, speed, damage, etc), which they didn't seem to be.