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[Towerland]

The first levels were a decently entertaining standard shooter game, although I did find them fairly boring and repetitive. However, I could not figure out how to defeat the first boss. I kept shooting it but it didn't seem to take damage. And there's no way to fight it without going through those tedious levels again.

[Sonny 2]

This game won't run for me in Newgrounds Player 1.0.6.

[[BTNverse] There is nothing here.]

This game crashed for me and gave me an "out of application memory error". I restarted the game and it did it again. That shouldn't happen. It's too bad, because this looks like a really well-made game. If it helps, I'm using the latest version of Firefox on macOS Sierra 10.12.6.

adriendittrick responds:

yeah I have issues making game maker studio 2 games run properly on mac unfortunately.

[Toilet Paper Hoarder]

Neat concept, but it just doesn't run well on my computer at all. It doesn't display right if I have my browser zoomed out. The controls are touchy and a slight tap sends me careening. And the framerate looks pretty choppy.

JelleVermandere responds:

I'm sorry, I could have optimised it better. Something to work on in the future!

[Planet Life]

This game was really fun! It had a nice sense of progression, and the characters were fun, quirky, and cute. One feature I'd like to suggest is a more efficient way to exchange stardust for gold rings in the endgame. When you have a lot of stardust it takes a long time to convert it. Anyway, great game!

[Final Fharmacy I]

This game was fun. I do not have the reflexes needed to get 3 stars on all levels. The hitboxes were fairly small on my screen and I found I would commonly misclick and lose a potion or an ingredient. A separate button for discarding an ingredient, like shift-click, would be nice rather than just having it be discarded when you click on empty space. I would have liked if the game had a "restart level" or "menu" button too. As far as I can tell the only way to exit a level is to win or fail. I got all 4 endings and I liked that that wasn't as difficult as getting 3 stars on everything.

FutureCopLGF responds:

My bad on the difficulty! And yeah, as the patients grow in number, the hit boxes get smaller which can be frustrating. I tried to make the boxes a bit bigger than they look, but I think next time I'll make it even bigger. I think I was too big on trying to recreate the FF1 battle screen when I should've made the patient window larger so they were easier to target. Cheers for the feedback!

[Relic Guardians: Arcade]

This game is kinda fun, and seems like it could be more fun. But right now it has some huge flaws which ruin the enjoyment for me.

The tutorial should really be revamped in my opinion. It is impossible for me to beat the clicking challenge at the SP tie, and I'm a fairly fast clicker. And it is impossible to advance past that point in the tutorial without beating that challenge, or to exit the tutorial either. So the tutorial is unwinnable for me.

On that note, the whole click speed challenge in SP ties seems really out of place in this game that is otherwise all about turn-based strategy. Maybe remove it and replace it with something else?

There's some sort of health regen over time in this game, and the game is turn-based. This means that you can win all the time if you wait long enough, it's just tedious.

It seems like you could use some beta testers for this game, or at least that would be my suggestion. If you're looking, I'll volunteer.

rotcivsette responds:

Thanks for the feedback. Message me how many clicks you did on average on the mini game and I'll see what can be done :)
This game was more of an experiment, if (or when) I come back to this style, I'll contact you about the beta testing. So thank you again.

[Rum & Gun DEMO]

I found this game somewhat interesting at first, but it didn't really keep my interest. It just felt way too repetitive after a while, and I got bored and I didn't know if it would get more interesting after a while, so I stopped. It was just a lot of the same run-and-shoot gameplay, which wasn't interesting to me.

I do have a few comments about the gameplay. My favorite part was the rum mechanic and the associated perks. I think I would have liked to see perks gotten a little more frequently. I agree with the suggestion that there shouldn't be permadeath for followers. I lost my follower at the start because I didn't know what I was doing, and then I had no follower for the rest of the time I played. Also, I thought weapon switching was a bit clumsy, I was ofter confused by what I switched to, maybe that could be improved.

[Mars Power Industries: Prototype]

There's a lot of interesting ideas here, and the story sounds really interesting. However, I found the gameplay needlessly confusing, and therefore frustrating. I almost couldn't figure out what the rules are governing when you can place a tower or not, and even though I eventually figured it out, I would have preferred some instructions saying exactly how everything works.

Rarykos responds:

Thanks for elaborate feedback!
Let me explain why there are no instructions - they are disctracting for the majority of players. In the end almost nobody cares for the instructions, but for the interactions they themselves come up with.
But I think I will add some help & guidance for the deluxe edition, just so it's not so frustrating!

[Pit King]

Interesting concept, but I found it too frustrating to keep playing. The crossbows guys kept destroying my turrets even when I used walls and upgrades, and there were too many for me to defeat manually with my bone throwing. The farthest I got was I think wave 6. There might have been a way to get farther, but it would have taken me too long to find out. Still, pretty good for a game made in 72 hours.

Oultrox responds:

Thank you for the feedback! It's quite tricky to get the grasp of the game at the very first but I'm sure you can come up with a better and better strategy for those lil' bastards the more you keep playing and getting use to the controls (you can speed up things with hotkeys, try to invent an formation, etc.) you'll totally get better of course but I do understand the frustation, to be honest is a whole difficul thing to balance between challenging and an easy learning curve for the game, so we still polishing those bits, Thanks for the comment again!