Score: 10

"Tonight, on sixty minutes..."

submission: Swords and Sandals 3:Solo

date: October 20, 2008

I haven't played the other Swords and Sandals game, but I figured I'd give this a try and found I really enjoyed it. I'm not usually one for these kind of games, but this had a good amount of variety, even for a demo.

Which brings me to my next point...It really grinds my gears when I see an extreme, over-the-top negative reaction from some users towards great developers who want to be able to make enough money to eat and pay the bills. Fun fact - it seems that everyone who left a bad review for that reason has never themselves contributed anything to this site.

I'm a developer too (granted, nowhere near your standard!) and I do find it funny when some users get pissy about the fact that we have the audacity to put an ad in a game, or put a link to another version on our own sites, or in your case upload a very comprehensive demo which could well be a full game in it's own right.
I realise it's a very small minority of users (probably very young angry kids who have no understanding of money or the real world), but it is still quite annoying and insulting to developers.

Anyways, rant over...Awesome game :)

Score: 6

"Fun and a little educational"

submission: Word Scramble

date: November 30, 2007

A fun game, but it seems to be very luck-based. For example, in one game I ended up with a terrible score because I had all long obscure words and in another game I got the top score of 90,000 because I had all simple 4 letter words. Perhaps you should either have several difficulty levels or make the words more difficult when the player is doing well?

Score: 7

"Not bad"

submission: Most Difficult Puzzle

date: November 27, 2007

Good old Khun Phaen, eh? *cough*hint*cough*

Good puzzle, nice presentation.

Score: 0

"Familiar..."

submission: Wolfenstein 3D Flash

date: November 25, 2007

This seems strangely familiar - http://gotoandplay.it/_articles/2006/
09/maze.php (The second result on Google for 'flash raycasting').

In fact, from the look of it all you did was add a 'gun'. This would have been worth a 1/10 if you would have at least recognised the original developer.

Score: 7

"Very good start"

submission: Storm 1.1

date: November 22, 2007

Initially, I just thought this was yet another samey-TD game, but I decided to give it a chance.
I really like the mines - having to balance between defensive structures and resource collection can be tricky in the later levels.
Overall it definitely kept me entertained, until Firefox crashed :(

However, just a few possible suggestions -
-Upgradable weapons (Increase damage, range, etc)

-Place several weapons (currently if you want to place a few you have to keep clicking on the weapon button, maybe make the placement method more like Desktop tower defense)

-Add a few more map types (different routes for the enemies), different terrain, etc

-More enemy types

-Different weapons having higher/lower effects on different enemies (e.g. Flying enemies can only be hit by certain weapons)

-More sounds (different sounds for different weapons)

-Different projectiles for different weapons

Best of luck,
CJ

Score: 7

"Original"

submission: The Global Warming Game

date: September 23, 2007

It's nice to see something different every now and then.
Some suggestions:

-Maybe it's just my computer, but it felt a little sluggish and this often caused the paddle to go right through a molecule and hit it on the opposite side

-A highscore system would be a great addition

-I say this in every review, but a mute button IS A NECESSITY! I prefer listening to my own tunes :)

-I know you're constrained by physics, but it may be more challenging (and fun) if there was more than 1 type of molecule you had to save

-I also know it's taboo, but you could quite easily make this educational by explaining about global warming, etc during the game/between levels...Just a thought

-Make the molecules bounce off the sides, currently they go outside of the borders

-Maybe add in a few sound effects - bouncing, good molecule pass, bad molecule pass, etc

Keep spreading the green word :)

Regards,
CJ

Score: 10

"Fantastic!"

submission: Treasure of Cutlass Reef

date: September 23, 2007

This is a brilliant game - I never realised I could find a slow paced game so addictive!
The only two flaws I found are -

1. The in-game options are a bit too hidden and...

2. You took an hour of my life and I want it back!

Keep up the good work.

Regards,
CJ

Score: 6

"Not bad"

submission: Tetris: A Reinvention

date: September 23, 2007

Possible improvements:

-make the rotate sound quieter and the 'down' sound louder

-maybe make the down key move it down 1 space and have another key send it straight to the bottom. In tetris you sometimes want to move it into a space at the last second, and it's a pain to have to wait

-music to suit the 'techno' effects

-implement a menu, rather than making it start off paused

-mute button (this should be in every game!)

Overall, a very good start - keep at it.

Regards,
CJ

Score: 6

"The music aint to my taste"

submission: Simple Simon in: Avoid

date: September 10, 2007

A mute button would be *very* nice :)
Other than that, not bad - some added variety in the levels would be nice.

Score: 7

"Fun little game"

submission: PowerStar: Adult

date: September 9, 2007

Annoyingly addictive, though probably wouldn't have been half as fun without the prospect of boobies :)

As others have stated, the star should be more responsive - it's more a matter of luck than skill given that if a star is at the bottom then at the top it's impossible to get up to it in time without being damaged.