Funkmachine's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Log.A]

I think the voting has been harsh on your submission. There is alot of positives in your game. For a first game its actually quite strong. A lot of gamer's like an intro menu and instructions, which you should add to your next game. If you go into the project system for this game, you can edit the Author comments section and put the instructions in there, a lot of other devs do that for small games like this.

I actually liked the way the game handled, the double jump had a nice feeling to it. colision detection was also very good. I think you should make a version 2 of this game. If you replaced all of the bland visuals with some nice pixel art, add audio for the jumping, add a menu etc and re release the game you will get a much better score.

Great first game, obviously it can be greatly improved, but A+ for effort. Making games is not easy ;) keep up the good work and keep increasing your standards.

Pythlix responds:

Thanks man. I really appreciate it. :)

[Goo Bouncing]

Well done sire, I dont often give five star review but you deserve it. Mechanic was simple yet challenging and each level required planning, never has the reuse of the same mechanic in slightly more complex ways been so fun for me. Really good game design and level design and music choice. Art is probably the weakest point, but its still nice enough to enjoy the game to the fullest. Well done dude. Make more games! and add medals.

FancyReckless responds:

Thanks, glad you liked it.
I going to make my next one with the participation of real artist and medals :)

[Heat Guardian Demo]

Visually, the best game I have ever seen on newgrounds. No question. It looked fantastic. I really liked the dark atmosphere and the sounds were good too. Gameplay is tough and unforgiving(in all the right ways). I didn't realize I could use logs to keep me alive for while, then when I did realize it I was like ffs, probably just me not reading the instructions correctly tho. I think when it comes to games, you have the nack ;) I look forward to the finished version.

[Isometric Puzzle]

Nice, simple yet addictive. Its great to see a game made with HTML5 as well, it loaded fast and ran great for me.

[Square Savior]

I liked it. Its always the little things that make a game shine. The little puff of particles when you land, the sound effects were nicely timed for the jump, landing and killing blocks. I liked the jumping motion, it felt smooth to me. Nice scaling of mechanics as the levels progressed. nice background music, and thank you for providing controls to turn it down.

You may be developing on a 22" but I am playing this on a laptop and I cannot see the entire game area I had to scroll up and down at times to see my character.

The white for the main character is not clear enough, its was difficult at times to see where I was. Either make the grey background darker or make the main character brighter.

It was a bit of a supermeat boy story line rip off :D right down to the mustache on the bag guy :p. Great work for a short project. Its a million times better than most of the construct/unity engine shite that's posted on the site daily.

For a first game its very good. Its a lot better than my first platformers. You have a lot of promise as a developer. Replace all of your sprites with some nice art and animations it will be 4.5/5 from me. To get the 5/5 you would have to come up a new unique game mechanic or challenge. There is simply too many platformers around these days, to get noticed you have to be a little different. But as you said, its your first game, these things will come in time. Great first game effort.

But hey, what do I know :/

PereDM responds:

Waw o-O that was a fantastic review!! I appreciate it a lot! <3

I saw the resolution problem once I had uploaded it, sorry about that. And thanks for making me realize I should have made more contrast between the main character and the platforms.
I didn't take into consideration the fact that not everyone will play the game in a perfectly lighted room and in the same screen. I'll remember that for the nexts projects.

I haven't played supermeatboy (yet) but I guess I might have unconsciously ripped off the story line or characters, since I have seen some footage of it.

And thanks again for all these compliments. I think that the game stands out because I made the prototype very quickly and then spend a lot of time perfecting it and carefully adding details.

For the next projects I'll make sprites and animations (I'm also an artist :D) and I'm already thinking of new mechanics. I was aware that the game wouldn't probably succeed if I didn't invent some new mechanic or innovative idea but I just wanted to have a first game done to get the expirience and skills and be ready for creative, original, more complex games.

Sincere, constructive reviews like this help a lot. I'm glad you liked my game :D

[FIST OF AWESOME]

BEAR FIGHT!

I don't give 5 starts very often, but I really enjoyed this. I took half a star because there is always room for improvement :D. More diverse music would be great, and maybe weapons or power ups like every punch for 10 seconds is super punch and everything moves super fast. More ways to kill the bots would be great.

I did really enjoy it. The sound effects were great, the spinning arms attack and the jump kick were hilarious. Really took me back to streets of rage and golden axe. good job :D

[Illuminate]

Press E to activate switch, for any other poor soul trying to figure it out :D. Four stars for effort. I liked it. Controls were smooth, double jump felt great to control and manipulate. Reminds me of supermeat boy. I liked the music aswell. Keep at it. add more levels :D

eyeeedg responds:

First of all, thank you for playing it! :) and yeah I did forgot to include the interaction key. Thanks for pointing that out. Thank you so much and have a good day :)

[Dungeon Rush]

I gave to 5 mins. Its really hard to time the jumps correctly, and no way to heal with the insta death makes it a bit frustrating. People like checkpoints and a sense of progression, but you die and go all the way to the bottom again :/

I love the art, liked the music. I couldn't clearly see the death animation with the rest popup box, maybe add a small delay in there so people can see that awesome death animation :D

You should turn this into an rpg or platformer with levels, I really liked the art style, very gameboy.

noekintaro responds:

Thank your for your review.
actually you can by extra life using christals. This is extremely hard game!

[Eidolon]

3+1/2 because there is room from improvement! I really enjoyed the game. I found it hard to move and shoot, and it was very difficult to line the bots up just right to shoot them. I really liked the portal idea. The bots really need some path finding improvements. I like the animations. Great start.