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[Eat Peanut Butter and Jelly]

fun little challenge game to complete

[Like This Game?]

cool. good ending

[Untitled Rhythm Game]

Good visual vibe until gameplay. It starts too difficult.

Lusans2002 responds:

I’m sorry if the game was too difficult. I was planning to add a difficulty system, but I ran out of time for the game jam. Make sure to look forward to future updates—one of them will include a difficulty system!

[CAR GODS]

took a while until i realised the controls for the exe. cool concept for an endless runner type. i liked the limited vision that requires looking to interact as it's immersive, but also claustrophobic in tricky situations

[Steel McGun]

Good platforming level design.
It's generally intuitive to figure out how to traverse around, but at times it can be slow to get a footing, cancelled aiming on collision & too much friction on walls. Interesting platforming using a rotating rigidbody weapon to traverse an odd shaped environment. (I wish there were sparks & clanking when bumping into stuff as it happens often & otherwise seems a bit static, but that's just me).

In the level "look for clues...", the maze of shelves & destroyable barriers to open a pathway with some backtracking was a good touch. Also like the exitways of vents/windows/doors. There's a decent difficulty curve through out allowing the user to get used to the controls before introducing larger levels or new challenges. It was a good break from platforming to have switch-ups in gameplay style such as free-falling or first-person-shooter.

The return to restock ammo mechanic & retry button got me invested in retrying after making mistakes allowing quick progression.

The cutscenes style is effective to paint the context of the story to tie the levels together.

[watching paint dry simulator]

oh maybe you cant minimise

[Cars Game 2]

no way

[Escape the Obstacles!]

score - imposible 31.
For a first using flixel this is okay.

I like that you can jump straight into the game or restart quickly. Having a level difficulty is a nice touch.

On easy, the sense of space is open, & there is enough time to avoid obstacles in either direction. I think the difficulty should reach a cap when the player cannot dodge the moment the obstacle is visible.

I think a 'prediction' game mechanic could be more fair. Allowing the user opportunity to make narrowed predictions to save themself.
- limited spawn positions for identifiable danger zones.
- spawn groups for familiar maneuver types (e.g. alternating, targeted, or clustered formation of obstacles).
- pattern sequence for predicting the next group to avoid (i.e. a wave may have a sequence of 5 spawn groups with the first being the same but the last being random).

Simplicity is key.

ocaloguzkaan responds:

Thanks for the review! But why 2 stars? Can you tell me what you like and don't like? Your feedback is very important!

[Pablo Post-It's Journey Home]

fantastic game. easy level progression. simple & chill gameplay.

[Away]

Neat design. Bit hard to control.