HerbieG's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Megalodon Pup]

Your game clearly reminds me of this one:
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/605618
but that game is much better in many ways. The main problem is that the smaller fish you can eat at the very beginning are awfully scarce. It already tells the player that it will be too long than it should be thus not that enjoyable. And it even poses a risk that the game will disconnect from NG not awarding the final medals.

PS

After playing it for a while I managed to upgrade my shark to higher levels, so it is manageable. So far I can tell that the medal for eating another shark is not working. You should have tested all the medals by yourself before releasing the game.

EnergyDrinkClock responds:

I just updated the game to make it ping the Newgrounds API every 5 minutes or so.

Hopefully that fixes the problem.

[POOM]

It's awesome, but... why there is no progress saving?

freds72 responds:

levels are completed in less than 10 minutes. game saves only between levels.

[Madness survival]

It's not that bad. I only had few thoughts while playing it:
1. You could think of adding a counter of zombies killed/time played;
2. As for the 1 hour medal: it can happen that your game will disconnect from NG at that time;
3. If you are shooting to the left (machine gun) the animation of the bullets looks fine, but if you shoot to the right the bullets look like they are being fired from below of the gun.
Oh, I like the Agatha Christie's reference when you die.

bfdifanlol responds:

Ah, good tips. Just keep in mind that the Bullet position glitch is unfixable, and a problem with the engine.

[Madness Roulette]

Once again when it comes to your games and the date-related medals: mind the time zones. It is already 23rd for me while it is probably still 22nd for you.

larrynachos responds:

Yeah, my intention was to have this up earlier today, that's my bad. Still, at least now you have a reason to visit next year!

Happy madness day herbiG :)

[pipe infinite]

Err... checkpoints maybe? After each 10 puzzles? One thing would be useful: L-click - rotate clockwise, R-click - rotate counterclockwise. Also... can you unlock all of these medals? ;-)
And: is the game storing data about the player's highest score? I mean if the game disconnects from API at 40-50 puzzles solved...

MrNannings responds:

Yes it saves your best score and gets uploaded when you see the gameover panel. So if you restart the game your best score gets uploaded again.

Here my best score here is 21 but I went beyond while playtesting :P

[Glitcheon]

Not bad overall. The pulse jumping technique could be explained a bit better. And during the ads part looking at all these graphics can make your eyes tired quite fast.

I only hope we will never live in a reality like this. It reminds me the "Black Mirror" series.

YaenGames responds:

Thanks for the kind comment and feedback! We'll try to see how we can introduce the glitch pulse more gradually in the steam version.
I'm happy you got Black Mirror vibes! I love the series and it might have given us inspiration here and there for the writing and themes. I hope for the same and that's why I think that humanity needs warnings like this, not to steer further down the wrong path.

[Baseball Game (No Helmet)]

The control scheme could be better. For example if up-arrow has no purpose right now then it should be used for jumping instead of space. Or the swing/jump buttons should be placed next to each other, like z+x.

3amsoda responds:

true, I'll see if can patch this after work.

[Grav/vity]

Awesome thing! Withe several really challenging levels and ambitious mechanics. I only noticed few things/would suggest some improvements:
1. The game screen is a bit too big, I had to ctrl- it;
2. After I beat the last level the game just went black, not returning to menu;
3. It would be good to restart a level just by pressing "R" for example, without having to exit to pause menu.

goldenPiGames responds:

2. Can you give more information (message if necessary)? It should stay on that screen for only a few seconds, then fade into the credits.
3. I'm planning to add that in soon.

[Event Horizon]

It's a good small game that could be easily expanded by adding more missions, maybe enemies and something to spend credits on. 2 notes on the medals though:
1. "Evacuate" doesn't work at all;
2. "Malfunction" works only if you crash your ship after the black hole appears.

WolDstn responds:

Thanks for letting me know. I’ll take a look at the code and see where I messed up.

EDIT: I made a few changes and I was able to unlock the medals as intended, so it appears to be working now. Sorry about that!