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[Paradise Slice 02: Read the Comic]

TLDR: Comic great, "game" presentation needs a lot of work.

As a comic, I'm not going to comment much on it. It's 18 pages long, quality artwork, decent story, the girl looks a little derpy, and one sex scene (no nudity thankfully). Maybe the colours + lighting look a bit flat, but that's about it.

However, "Paradise Slice 02: Read the Comic" (also Slice 01) is technically considered a "game", or rather, an interactive piece of software which centers around this comic, not too far off from most e-book readers, and from a technical perspective, it's incredibly barebones. You can click either side (or arrow keys) to flip pages, pop it out to another tab, and nothing else. No music or sound effects, no additional flair, nothing that oozes "creativity" aside from within those pages.

Here are some suggestions for improvement:
*** Try to add stuff from the author comments (descriptions, credits, links to other comics, etc) into the software itself.
Example: The instructions could be a single pop-up when you open the comic.
*** Visual indicators that only show up when you hover your mouse over one side (to indicate you should click to flip the next page.

** Display 2 pages like a real comic book
** A short animation that plays when you flip a page, rather than just instantly skipping to the next page.
** Some music (that you can change volume). Maybe 2-3 different songs in different sections of the comic.

* A button to jump straight back to the start
* Change the title from "Read the Comic" to just "Comic", preferably in brackets
* Some voices / dubs if possible.

Hope that helps.
-frog-

EDIT: Do note there's a difference between something being barebones and being minimalistic.

KittyhawkMontrose responds:

It's good to hear from a fellow Aussie! :D As you hit on the head, we're going for "barebones" at the moment. These are great ideas for expanding, especially the quick jump to the start. I like that! Thanks so much for the thorough review, and I'm glad you liked the comic portion a lot. ^_^

[NG BBS Awards 2022]

Quiz Answers:
Go to StArt > Internet to access game.

1. 1 + 1 = 2
2. StrawberryClock rulez NG
3. Is H2O dangerous? Yes if you have lots.
4. +15 good score in golf? no.

Trivia: Portal ID "834224" is actually from "Deal with Putin"
BTW I'm stuck on last medal.

PS: RIP Seth

Little-Rena responds:

Wow, how did you get all of the quiz right?! It's the hardest quiz ever!

Also, well done finding the easter egg there!

[Fly into the Trade Center]

Only true issue with game: Wonky graphics and tower generation / collision. You can't go in between any towers and eventually they all cluster together.

[Coca & Their Shotgun II]

== Uh oh, too damn high! ==
Score: 7 (technically 0, but I'm voting this low to support the game)

This is a neat little endless arcade-ish bullet-hell shooter, a follow-up to an existing game with slight mechanic changes.

Just so you know, the goal of the 3 star game jam is to get as close to 3 stars as possible, and despite being made in less than 2 days, this is actually good and thus needs a lower score.

Graphics: 8 | Design: 9 | Music: 7 | Polish: 6 | Anime: 7 | Theme Accuracy: 6

[Web Surfer]

== What the hell are the other medals for? ==
Score: 6 | Critic Review

This is a basic typing simulator. Most of the keys on your keyboard will be typed ingame by a character on the screen. The aim of the game is to type in codes that make different things occur.

Right out of the gate, I was able to get "brown", "boom", and "911", but I didn't get the rest of the medals (except for the A-Z one). Some clues can be appreciated because I don't want to have to guess for hours on end.

And no, the Konami code isn't one of them. I checked.

SUGGESTIONS: Click the keys to type them (for mobile and/or convenience), and also be able to see what I just typed. Also some decent clues on how to get the rest of the hidden medals.

Graphics: 6 Sound: 8 | | Keys: 40+ | Clues: 2

List of things that WON'T lead to codes (I checked)

The Konami code
Communism
#BLM
Fortnite
Newgrounds
Alt-F4
Stepford
BigHairyBalls
Captain Underpants
InstantWin
Pi to at least 12 digits
FreeMedal
Walkthrough
Crtl Alt Delete
Peter Molyneux
"Big Chungus", "Chungus", "BigChungus" or any such combination.

List of things that WILL lead to codes (ie. stickers on your monitor)
Found: 5/14. Was unable to find the other 9.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Fish (these 5 are the creators of the game haha)
Ape
Octopus
Oreo
Redweirdo

Fish125 responds:

Thx for the review

[Lox Cacthes the Coins: Halloween Edition]

Some suggestions for improvement:

*** The graphics. Note how the background has all these small bumps left behind from when you drew the asset. If you're using vector graphics, you should be able to edit the dots so it looks smooth and perfect. Work towards that.

*** Add a menu screen. When you click the green flag, the game starts up without warning.

*** Lox's hitbox is massive, making it very difficult to dodge bombs.

** The score and lives are displayed using Scratch's built-in variable display. A custom UI would be recommended.

** Lox, the coin, and the bomb all have only 1 frame of 'animation' that's very poorly drawn. Work towards not needing to use basic shape tools as a crutch for limbs, feet, heads, etc. This may take some time, but it's worth it.

* You don't need to mention that "Background is Dark Blue and Lox is Purple". I and most other players would already know that Lox is the player character.

* Maybe don't capitilize every single word in the description.

Hope that helps. For additional game design tips, I also recommend any one video from Masahiro Sakurai's YouTube channel.

[OFF - Purifier's Halloween]

403 Forbidden.
openresty

Game initially did not boot up. In future, you should probably check that before you hit PUBLISH.

Vidyabatter responds:

Fixed

[Faces Of 2022 Collab]

== Not perfect, but a damn good job! ==

Faces of 2022 is a collab made to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Faces of 2012. It plays just like the original, except there's over 100 faces and they're all from 2022.

POSITIVES:
*** 105 faces drawn by ~80 artists, with only a couple of stinkers.

** A great representation of the popular characters of NG from 2022, such as Ballfrog, the Alphabet series by Delfrig, various artists, musicians and voice actors, Cult of the Lamb (there was an art contest), etc.

*** Good way to test your knowledge on various NG characters.

NEGATIVES:

*** In the study mode, the faces don't link to their submissions of origin like Fo2012 did.

** The control method. Rather than hovering the mouse around to move the screen, you instead fling a cursor around. I prefer the original, and I retained it in my own version, Faces of 2002

** As BrandyBuizel pointed out, some prompts may not be very helpful, although that may change.

* The "correct" and "wrong" sound effects can be annoying to some people

* A small handful of odd face choices. Some such as Octillery (Pokemon) and Geiru Toneido (Ace Attorney) aren't actually original characters, whereas Charles and the Among Us crewmate aren't even from 2022 (I'm guessing you counted fanart).

INFORMATIONAL:
* Contains the same music as Fo2012, of which the licensing terms say "Please contact me if you want to use this", but the author hadn't been active since 2019.

* I also drew two faces, 40oz Bouncer, and Ajit Pai (Kolo Terorita), but I haven't been able to find them.

* Stepford gets special treatment in the form of their own medal, which is easy to acquire.

Intrapath responds:

Hey, I wanted to say thanks for taking the time to write a thorough review! There are some really good points here - the one about the music caught my eye in particular. I don't imagine it'll become an issue, but it's a good note for all of us involved for future reference.

[WORM]

Although it does feel like one of those repetitive mobile games, with the way levels are set up, and lacking music, it's still a decent puzzle game.

SUGGESTION: Auto restart whenever you cannot move in any direction or the end hole is completely blocked off.