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[A Change of Heart: A Magical Girl Adventure]

Interesting game, but with no ability to target anywhere else than up/left/right using mouse for attacking is pointless. The game should be 100% keyboard-controlled.

ShibeyFaceGames responds:

Thanks so much for playing! The are a several control options once you are past the menu/intro, including a full keyboard layout.

I appreciate the feedback. When I have some time, I'll see about updating the main menu to make it keyboard/game-pad controllable too.

[Afraid of the Dark]

It's good, but:
1. It lags terribly, making it difficult to control the character;
2. Those 0-deaths medals are rather for cheaters only;
3. Especially for the boss rush, because you can respawn right where the boss is located.
4. No options to turn off particle effects or to change keyboard controls.

nulledwine responds:

Sorry about the lag, it doesn't lag on my machine and friends never mentioned it but if it really becomes a problem I provided a Windows download in the description
I spent a couple days before publishing to see if the medals were possible and the 0 deaths are, just need a lot of patience lol
You get a small period of invincibility when respawning so you can run out of the area, but that's probably poor design from me, sorry
As for particle effects and keyboard controls, my bad. I'll try working to add this

[YRKKEY'S PARADISE]

Awesome thing to experiment with, but the game should be really saving progress, locally. So far when I close the game and return to it every time I have to start from scratch.

Droqen responds:

It's trying! Thanks for the private message, hope I can get this figured out.

[Stoneville]

Good game, but the medal is definitely broken. I picked the ball, completed the game, but it did not unlock.

[Synth Drift]

I passed some of the levels, left the game to continue later, but when I returned all my progress was gone. Looks like your old problem has returned ;-)

[Jump Forge]

Those uploaded levels should be at least checked and tested, because lots of them are simply impossible. For example today's featured level: how can it be even possible to get out of the start position?

PS

So how can it be possible to jump anywhere at the beginning of that featured level if even at the start you are placed on the spikes and there are only spikes ahead?

Prox276 responds:

You need to abuse your invincibility frames in those levels. :)

[Daxolissian System: Espionage]

Ok, the game is not hard, but the controls are to the furthest extent annoying. The effect of e and d should be reversed, because it is counter intuitive. And the efficiency of rotating with left/right arrows is way too low, you barely turn by pressing these keys. No space armada would want to have ships with such terrible handling.
A note: not sure if you can remember it, but back in 1990s there was an awesome space flight game called Tie Fighter with massive keyboard controls, but the spaceship's movement was controlled almost completely with the mouse. Awesome playability, intelligent AIs, lots of challenging tasks. Check this out and get inspired.

3p0ch responds:

Pulling back to climb and pushing forward to dive is pretty standard. Yaw was intentionally made weak because IRL pilots don't use it to turn. Use roll and pitch to turn quickly, yaw is just for minor adjustments like lining up shots. My inspiration for this game was realistic flight mechanics and the link in the author comments goes into a lot of detail about it, but for future games sure I'd be up for anything that looks fun.

[Gatlin']

After I started the game I got stuck on the corpses, not being able to get out. Jumping does not help. One important thing: cut that out with these flashing backgrounds, will ya? I checked the credits and my eyes did hurt, not to mention people with seizures problems. It is really unnecessary.

dotcopycat responds:

Hi, I'm sorry to hear that. The last thing I want is for this to be seizure-inducing. The backgrounds shouldn't be flashing, it may be a shader error. Would you be willing to send me a gif/video of it?

[The Sun for the Vampire 2]

I wish that one day the Author of this decent game could return and optimize it a bit more to eliminate that tremendous lag on level 28...

[The Gun Game]

Apparently the authors did not do enough research about how the firearms really work. Were you ever at a real shooting range? Were you even wielding a real gun in your life? Who told you that bullets fall that much at such a short distance? No weapon factory would be allowed to produce such a crap! And I agree with @blyndid about the ridiculousness of the mouse clicking sensitivity (smgs especially) and remind the authors that real weapons got different modes: for example a real MP5 can fire bursts, three bullets at the time and even a single shot.