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[Galactic Conquests]

Waste of potential

I like defense games. I like them a lot. One of the most important factors in game development generally is: balance.

Many complained that it's sufficient to use the most basic and cheap tower. Balance the towers out, make the other ones useful. Maybe even unique. You have to make the player being forced to use all of the towers. Maybe the one pierces armor while others don't? Maybe one is able to poison the enemy just like the trap? Another tower could focus on air - units, if implemented. Use spread damage and a proper projectile/explosion animation. Make the ground units more useful. I didn't use them once. What's especially important is that the player notices the changes when he upgrades a tower. I love defense games simply because you can develop your weapons and make them cooler and stronger. Change the color with every step of upgrade. Change the general design of the turret. I didn't upgrade throughout the whole game because it's far cheaper to just buy another tower of the same type - change this. Make upgrades more powerful, alter the projectiles a bit, make the tower look mightier with every upgrade.
Don't make the enemy charge right at your spaceship. Some of them should move on another path. And don't make them get so close to the turret. At least not every unit. Looks bad. Add pause.

Sorry that I'm criticizing so much. The game's really big and you apparently put a lot of effort in it, but isn't it a shame that most features remain untouched. Your wasting much potential. Try to change the balance, add better upgrades, make troops usefuller and work on the graphics and it will be a hit.

smith1302 responds:

Thank you, I don't mind that your criticizing at all. I enjoy it because it's reviews like this that really help me. You tell me the points you don't like and how to fix it, so I thank you. It's just reviews like "sucks" that I don't like where they don't tell me why.

Thanks!!

[Achilles]

Cool thing with a big 'BUT' (pun!!!111)

I agree, it's a cool game, but one thing makes it less perfect: NO UPGRADES!!!!
Wah? The enemy improves the armor and weaponry and I'm still fighting with my basic sword? Thats not fair. Add 20 + Upgrades like weapons or armor and you can go straightly to the best score submissions.

Could you pleaaaase do it? :( I gave up after lvl 3 because it's too repetitional.
'Achilles reloaded' or something. This change isn't really that big and hard to program. ._.

DJStatika responds:

Why does everyone want every game to be an rpg? If I put upgrades in, the game becomes all about what upgrades you buy and not about your skill playing the game. This is an action game.

The enemies armour and weapons do not get better, they just get more skillful

[Mouse 08]

Sorry, try again.

Sorry, but this game sucked for many reasons:

I wander around somewhere and don't really know what to do. A mouse has to get to the family? Awkay. The first thing I noticed was the badly drawn scenery. But that's okay, if the overall concept works. But it doesn't. The engine sucks. Try to move properly, you'll get stuck and have to jump around. Try walking on the clouds, it's kinda impossible. I jump around and then some screen with strange symbols appears. Okay. Does this mean I've won? Where's the score? Whatever. The menu appears and the sound loops again, without stopping the previous. Gets quite cacophonic after a while. The world doesn't seem to be big, either. I managed to 'win' 3 times. The roof, under water and on the roof, again.

So, please:

Overhaul the whole engine. Make the music stop when the game is finished. Write better instructions. Create a plot. You could at least make the mouse collect stars. Make the game bigger. Enemies? Traps? Other music? Just a few suggestions.

0/5

I know that you've worked some tome on this thing, but it just isn't in any way enough to be on NG.

Softstorage responds:

oh....thats was a bug...now I'm fixing it...so no one seen the ending yet??......

[Raptek Arena Reloaded]

So cool yet frustrating :(

Aww... this sucks. Not the game, but that you get stuck between the enemies and can't run away. I didn't save so I'll have to restart my 'quest'. I tried every directional button but somehow it didn't have any effect on my hero. Whhhyyyy? >_<

Anyways: Great game. I love games with upgrades. Maybe you should make saving free, as it helps people to replay after shuttimg down the Pc.

5/5

Kelemas responds:

Mmm... that shouldn't happen... unless you were completely surrounded... in which case: you should never let the enemies surround you! :)
There is a part of the script dedicated to collision with enemies, and you can't pass through them! But if this happened with quite a reasonable space to pass... PM me and I'll work on it!

[Chrome]

Mh?

- Only the "Play" button worked.
- There wasn't any sense in this game

Only the "Requiem for a dream" - Theme was great.

Suggestions:

- Debug it
- Submit again

Yours

OLLR

BeastRex responds:

the Whole point of the game is that of Marble madness get to the end of the level (the portal), i know it has some bugs but still, its my first ever game, and i know only the play button works, its because i haven't wrote the how to play yet, or put in any options for sound, picture quality

[make a madness guy]

Well

I don't like "dress ups" but I can see that you put much effort in this thingy.

Maybe you could insert an "invert" button, so you can make the weapons point in the other direction.

3/5

Keep it up!

Doctor-Gordon responds:

how to make an "invert" button?
anywat thnx
pm me please if you know to to make an invert button :(

[the necrathlon]

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goddamn! I couldn't run, cuz there was no effect in alternating v & b
Correct this mistake.

Greez

OLLR

odd-job-jack responds:

Make sure you are not pressing both keys at the same time. It does in fact run you just have to find the sweet spot.

[Ultimate Gun Tutorial]

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Nettes "Referat". Die Musik war passend ^^

Einen Fehler hast du aber dennoch gemacht:

Soweit ich weiss, heisst es "Desert Eagle" und nicht "Dessert Eagle".
Aber wenn du es vorziehst, Adler zum Nachtisch zu essen, gern! :p

scrimpy responds:

Danke. Wusste garnicht dass es hir soviele deutsche gibt ^^

[Nimbin Comics: Volume1]

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Umm... What should I say? NG is a flash portal.
The comics are well drawn and cool, but you could at least add some music...

Whatever.

5/5

Gerkinman responds:

Your right, newgrounds is a flash portal, but this comic was 100% done in flash, so i guess it passes the test ;D

As for music, i was thinking about adding some but i didnt want to add to file size.

[Flasteroids]

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Well I liked it but there are some things, that should be changed:

1. It looks strange, when a game asks for your email
2. It gets repetative after a while so maybe you could insert some power-ups like speed, weapon upgrades, a shield...
3. Insert more sounds
4. Maybe "bosses"? After lvl5 it wasn't too interesting to shoot those things..

Anyway: Great work, man!
Keep it up :D

iVisual responds:

ok thanx, yeah well the email is actually for hi-scores, i never thought about it looking weird, im sorry about that for everyone that ha troubles with it and in my new release im hoping to have more power-ups and what-not. i am actually working on a 2d sprite sorta game with special powerups and things, maybe youd wanna look out for this, you might like it =P