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[Cube Mission]

Generally a good game. One question though, about the behavior of the cube: why lots of times the cube keeps moving despite I am not pressing one directional key at all or I am already pressing another one?

PS

Seeing NeonSpider's review I came up with this theory: for me the game worked quite well, maybe only a bit slow sometimes, but not to the point of a massive lag. Every level is playable. But indeed the game is slowing down at some points and it may happen that it is reading the keyboard input with a delay-or rather the results of the keys pressed are displayed with a delay, so the cube is moving not because of the key you are currently pressing but because of the key you were pressing parts of a second earlier. This made some levels a bit more difficult, because you actually had to predict the movement of the cube.

MrNannings responds:

Thanks. I don't know why that happens.

[shootemall2beta]

Every time after I kill 3-5 enemies the game freezes.

PS

This time it worked, but it seems that one of the medals does not like me or I am missing something. I killed all the enemies.

The problem with freezing occurs on Firefox, after I reloaded the game again the freeze returned.

wildanimal86 responds:

hi i see reload and try again please :)
what your browser? chrome?
im using chrome...

[CoAx]

I agree that the idea is interesting, but... the whole randomness discourages from playing the game further. I am also 100% sure that nobody will ever get the last medal, it is just impossible. Also one crucial thing: having in mind how long it has to take to finish the whole game PROGRESS SAVING is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. It is also related to the medal issues people may experience: the game will simply disconnect from NG after such a long gameplay and the medals will not be awarded.

Mondauthor responds:

I got CoAx Lives!, so it is possible...just challenging. It takes great skill.

Not sure what you mean by 'randomness'. The amount of bounce off of the geometry is fixed. The direction of gravity in each level is fixed. The speed a level rotates is fixed. Box2D works consistently across all computers. All that consistency is necessary or the player could not increase their skill.

Thanks for commenting. Progress saving is probably a good idea.

[Pen in my hand vs Blot]

Very interesting idea. The only problem with the classic mode is that in fact you cannot die on anything. I can just go through all the obstacles not being hit at all.

PS

This had to be a one-time bug, because when I reloaded the game the hit boxes started to work in a normal way, but apparently there is something that can cause it to happen.

Anyway once you get the hang of what you are suppose to do the game becomes quite easy to master.

kbvpneofit responds:

How? This is not possible ...

[Postshooter:create your team!]

2 things are bad:
1. Passport windows that constantly pop up - fixed
2. The fact that you get the same amount of cash no matter which mission you complete.

PS

Since I see that everybody is struggling with the 2nd scenario one advice: you can get that 1000 cash bonus, right? Add the fact that saving is only manual, so you can purchase a new unit, test it in battle and if you are not satisfied with its abilities reload the game and the save and check another unit. I assure you that you can build a squad that can get you through most of the missions. But I admit that you need to grind a bit to expand it beyond the initial 2 units - with only 2 of them you won't get very far. 5 units would be much better. The ending of second scenario is a bit hard and the finale of the 3rd scenario can stop you for a moment as well. 4th and 5th scenarios are surprisingly short and easy in comparison to the previous ones. I am currently stuck on 7th because the enemies seem to receive no damage or I am doing something wrong.

PS II

Ok, now I am a bit pissed, because my saved game got erased for no reason...

kbvpneofit responds:

Added saving levels to the mission menu. This is a reliable save!
If you can start the game again (the heroes disappear, and money) and play again but with the saved levels (and starting money bonuses)

[Fly Hunter Demo]

I don't understand the basic thing: what is actually my hit box?

UrieWProd responds:

The mouse cursor serves as its own hitbox. The gnat swirls around and darts into a direction when it's in attack mode, so touching it in that state will harm the player. The hornet shoots its stinger in waves, but the stinger on the main sprite might have a vector on its stinger that might harm the player and Mr. B attacks the player if the mouse is on it long enough. The Bot Fly shoot lasers and homing plasma blasts and sets up land mines. Mr. B supposedly resembles the Hudson Bee.

[BlockSnake 2048]

It is actually a very good game, but with several flaws:
1. It is actually a bit unexpected that lower digits can eat you, but it adds a bit more to the challenge;
2. You could also add arrow keys controls;
3. The game should prevent a situation in which a block can appear just in front of you or just in the place you currently are when you can absolutely nothing about it.

kbvpneofit responds:

3-good advice
1-well then it's too easy

[ball shooter 2 player]

Not sure if that was intended, but the time medals for single player are in fact cumulative.

kbvpneofit responds:

0_o
As I tested many times ...
Again have to change everything.
Also, the record table does not work, although I did it exactly according to the manual
Thank.

[Farm Life idle]

At some point the game stops sending scores/unlocking medals, because it probably disconnects from NG. This needs to be fixed. Because of that the game gave me (after reloading) the medal for 10 million, but not the one for 5. It should be re-checking it if necessary.

PS

Ok, the saved game loaded, the score loaded, but the medal for 5 million did not.

I had to buy enough things to get below 5 million and pass that point again to finally get the medal.

kbvpneofit responds:

Really, saving doesn’t work. I’ll try to understand how to save the game. I think, in another game, https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/737249 works from me
I'll try to make normal save

[HardFlex: The Last Flex]

One suggestion: add R as a button for reloading the stages.
Also the stages should auto-reload when you die.

kbvpneofit responds:

It will be done!