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[Da Best Gaem]

1. I'm not sure if you shouldn't change the title of the game because of Da Best Gaem by @deathink
2. The scoreboard is not working
3. Change these colours, they really cause a serious pain to the eyes...

9X74 responds:

1. How?
2. Fixed
3. Nah

[Halloween Town Survival]

Nice thing, as always :-) Why I took some stars from you? I must say that in some parts you are indeed getting a bit lazy in making these games ;-) For example when I clicked on a skeleton, the message said "Find something to defeat the slime", come on, using codes from so long time ago? Also when I left the area and went for a walk around, the combat music was still playing (in fact, I personally like it). Oh, and the Hole digging medal is not working.

selfdefiant responds:

Thanks! I missed the slime! I got it all fixed though. :)

[Idle City]

After playing your previous idle games I must say that I am disappointed. This one is not good and here is why:
1. What does the happiness determine (if anything?);
2. No pause button = while I am writing this review the happiness and other things can drop;
3. I also think that the population indicator is bugged or there is something wrong with it. In one moment I got 5000, a second later I got 1000, I am buying upgrades, but the population doesn't change; It even seems to be changing randomly; Can you explain what's wrong with it?
4. Why sometimes the income is dropping?
5. Back to happiness: random events that can make it drop even 20%? A bit ridiculous;
6. There aren't many options, this also can make the game a bit boring after a while.

applessmillion responds:

Happiness determines how events affect your city. Lower happiness will cause your population to drop more when something happens.
Income relies off of population as well, which is why you may see drops or increases.
Options are scarse, will add more at a later time. Shifting focus for a game that'll be released (hopefully) on the 20th. It's very different from my previous games so its requiring a lot of time atm. Will deposit any fixes and additions to IC when I can.

[Da Best Gaem]

Great game! I always liked Nyan Cat! :-) Only few things:
1. Sometimes I am not sure what exactly I did to unlock some of the medals;
2. I would definitely recommend changing the behaviour of the game after dying, because if you die on a very advanced level, the still moving background makes 2 things complicated:
a) it makes difficult to change the body/head, because it is simply covering the buttons;
b) after you restart you can lose a life or even 2, because before the previous background disappears, you are sometimes not sure where exactly you are and which obstacles are the current ones.

deathink responds:

You MLG'ed to get the medals!!!

[Injustice Bird]

I hoped that buying better skin will give me better control, because the current one is just terrible. The gravity is too strong to say that the bird (even flappy) is really flapping. This is what I don't like about the flappy bird clones: those are not an accurate simulations of a bird's flight, but just bouncing up-down.
Set some properities for the birds/guns to make them real upgrades, currenly even the flappy bird doesn't feel like being better than the others. There is also a problem with control when you try to fly and shoot at the same time.

AcesArco responds:

Gravity is meant to be hard because he is missing a wing, so he has a synthetic one. Its not a clone, I just emulated some controls. Also; I'm just amuatur and one guy in my living room with a house screaming full of kids. They aren't upgrades, just change of design. There aren't programs of control. Its your computer or browser choice. I'd suggest Internet Explorer for a better experience.

[Idle Not]

Just like it is said below, you just get killed for no reason. You can't change direction without stopping for a moment and sometimes the game considers it as a fail, sometimes not, there is completely no rule in it. I even got killed once when I just touched the exit! What the hell? If you will be (maybe) responding to this, please don't make an easy exit sending me to the walkthrough, but explain to me what's wrong with this game and what am I being killed for and what for am I not? What exactly the game is considering a reason for losing the stage? This is more important thing to say than the description above.

FlyingColours responds:

Sorry if you didn't enjoy the game. It was a silly little game I made when I started out programming, and I've really grown since it. The thing about the game is that it detects movement by checking, at a fixed interval, whether the square you're on is the same square as the one when the game (or the hypothetical demon) last checked. In retrospect, it's not the best mechanism, but yeah, it *was* my first game. ;)

[The cake is a lie!]

Now just what can I say about this game? You used to do some neat, calm stuff... and now This!
A hardcore, irritating, frustrating masterpiece for masochists!
The beginnings were ok, but when I got to level 13... AAARRRGHHH!!! I'mma kill that #@&$#!!! The next one pissing off was the one with 100 coins to collect, but easier.
When I finally beat the game - I had a feeling that I achieved Something.
It has only some minor bugs, like for example on the 100 coins level: on the lower parts of some blocks the wall jump fails to work. Also when designing a game like this pay attention to the fact that different keyboards have different sensitivities, for example mine is a bit oversensitive, so some of the levels were a pain.
But: If you will be making a sequel to this - I'm in :-)

Blobzone responds:

Thanks for playing it although i get that level 13 can be very frustrating. But thats the hardest level anyways so far. Yeah, some platformers will follow since i am working on a couple of projects and platformers are likely to be finished the fastest. So expect more in that direction :)

And yes, the aspect with the different keyboard sensibilities was something i didnt think about.

Cheers.

[Wacky Pirate 2]

Good game :-) Playable, you can have lots of fun from playing it. Only 2 things:
1. I assume that it was designed rather for mobile devices, but it would be good if you uploaded a more laptop-friendly version: with lower screen, the current one is too high to fit in the window.
2. Isn't the game saving progress? I reloaded the page and had to start from the very beginning.
Oh, a third thing just came to me, after finishing mission on level 3 the screen just went black and the game stopped working.

eivigames responds:

Hello. Thanks for your feedback. In the latest update we put a full screen button at the main menu, between the sound and information buttons. It should resize the game to whichever resolution you're using in your screen.

There was indeed a problem in our code that could cause the save file to not be written. It should be fixed now, but please let us know if you see it happening again. We'll look into the bug you described after finishing level 3.

[Frankenstein: Do-It-Yourself!]

I got a problem with the medals from fights and the loading of the game. When I click "play" the game takes about 10-15 seconds to load and after winning a fight the game breaks for few seconds, then I see the medal popping up, but it doesn't unlock for me.

t4upl responds:

Seems to be unlocking for others. Are you using Chrome? because Stencyl is known for hating it.

[Late to the Show]

The response of controls is very poor, for example I even can see that a part of the costume is located on something, I approach, press a key to check "on" and get an outcome "nothing there"...

Gamepopper responds:

Sorry to hear that, when you approached the item, what did the text at the top say before you pressed the check on key? I'm guessing there might have been a collision conflict between two of the hiding areas, but I'd need more info to see if I could repeat it.