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[Color Collision!]

Simple game, but doesn't actual rely on skill whatsoever. Doesn't matter if you play perfectly or if your reaction time is perfect, you are put in situations where it is impossible to not lose life points and almost always at the rate faster than you can collect enough for the medal.

I know if I played through a few more times I'd be able to reach the 100 point mark, but it feels silly playing a game that you lose based off of nothing except luck.

A large portion of the time the game won't even load. (chrome) You click the play button and it refreshes back out and you have to click all over again. This could happen 10-20 times before it actually sticks and you get to play the game.

caidn responds:

Thanks for playing and rating my game! Im currently working on ways to make the game more balanced (like power ups for example). Im also adding new medals as well. This game was merely a simple little project. But I'm hoping to make this better update after update.

[Cookie Clicker | Scratch Edition]

Just because quite a few of the last reviews state that the medals don't work, but they actually do now. (Just to help out if you're medal hunting!) They at least worked for me.

Super simple clicker game, starts off boringly slow, gets so easy towards the end that all of the medals can be unlocked in about 20 minutes. Has no replay value whatsoever without the medals though.

The big thing is that the game ends way too soon. (Even though it never ends) You get ton and ton of resources to spend, but no place to put it other than the same few upgrades and what's the point after that? Twice as many of the updates would make it more playable.

There's also the point that you have no clue what the upgrades do. You kind of figure it out, but there's no stats or even hints. Hovering your mouse over them should reveal some kind of details of why you should buy certain upgrades and what you should expect when buying them.

[Fat Fish Aquarium]

This game really missed for me. I stuck through it, for a solid hour to try and get all of the medals, but ended up not getting the medal for finishing the game even though I bought the final credit for $20,000. That all being said, I'm not here to review the medals, but the game. Sadly the only redeemable value in this game to me was the fact that there were medals. I wouldn't find myself slightly interested in playing this if they weren't there.

Other than being tedious, like most idle games can be, the actual lack of upgrades available and the extremely slow rate of money production just made this game no fun in my opinion. Adding something like food upgrades that make fish produce higher value outcomes, upgrades that increase speeds of things, and other multipliers would immediately make this game more playable.

Small details like having a fish description of their stats and a little information about them would have went a long way. At first I thought the "money fish" was literally stealing money from me. It took a bit to realize that it was collecting the $5 and $15 bills. At least I never witnessed it collecting anything else.

I don't understand how the save feature works? I clicked it about an hour in just in case things didn't work out well, but it doesn't actually do anything? Later when I came back into the game it made me start from the beginning. So what does the save button actually do if you start over from the beginning upon playing the game again? Am I missing a load file section?

Overall, a game that I wanted to enjoy, because I enjoy the genre of this game, but it really was kind of boring and didn't have any replay value.

Ant responds:

To answer some questions you may have, the medals on all Construct 2 games I make tend to time out for some reason and not give the player them after about 30-60 mins of gameplay. Not sure why that happens but I suppose it’s an issue with the Condtruct 2 API for NG.

I plan to soon add a Robotic Fish that drops food for you to make the game a bit less tedious for the player.

I’ve also gone ahead and fixed some of the AI for certain fish to work a bit better.

The save feature should be saving to your browser’s Local Storage, if it is full or if you are in private browsing mode it may not save upon reloading the game.

Hope that can clear some things up for you.

Edit: Fixed some stuff and updated the game a bit if u wanna try it out again!

[Witchcraft Tower Defence]

It took me a long time to figure out the strategy here, but once you do it's quite literally impossible to lose. Granted I wasn't good enough to get all of the medals and I could never quite defeat the last boss no matter what I tried, this was a fun game and I found myself wanting to play it over and over again.

[Snack Bowl Railgun]

Interesting concept. It really needed a bit more to feel like a complete game. I don't know exactly what that would look like so I won't let it effect my score.

I also managed to take the high score by 1 point! I'm sure if I did it again I could get the number down, as it took me a bit to learn the ins and outs. I'm assuming that won't give it another attempt though as there isn't much replay value.

[NG BBS Awards 2022]

Wow, telling everyone my password isn't a very cool thing to do, but to be honest if someone stole my account maybe they would have a chance at winning best mod next year.

[Mine Your Way Out]

At first I didn't enjoy the game too much, but I read @hercoolass's review and decided that I would give it another try. Once I figured out the concept and got to the destruction weapons I was addicted enough to go and grab all of the medals.

This did take quite awhile, I wish there was some sort of map. (If there was I missed it) I felt like I was running around aimlessly and that I was relying on pure luck. Then even when I did have everything it was a huge grind to get the amount of $ I needed for the next upgrade. I didn't mind that, in fact, I really appreciate the grind that it took. It was kind of my favorite part of the game.

I then gave up again once the boss killed me so darn fast, but noticed that there was the possibility to change the difficulty. I changed it to the easiest setting and was able to kill the boss. I can't believe there are people out there that could beat it on it's default setting!

I honestly don't know what would make this game better, but it's almost there. Probably just needs more upgrades and missions!

[WIZO]

It has good protentional, but in itself is not a very good game. Sadly there's no reason to play this game besides the medals, which are extremely easy to grab! After about 50 points in you realize nothing is actually going to change. Yeah, maybe there's a slight difficulty increase, but I was around 400 when I died the first time and that was solely because I was too bored to keep trying. I never found a reason to even try the teleport. Perhaps around 500+ points it becomes a feature needed?

This game would be extremely fun if it implemented a currency/upgrade purchasing functions, slightly bigger and different maps/levels, enemies that have different attack features/health, power ups, boss fights, etc..., etc... As it is there is really no more reason to play besides the original medal grab. There's no replay value and nothing that keeps people interested in continuing.

That all being said, the artwork and quality of gameplay were great. No weird bugs, everything worked as expected, and the artwork/style was high quality.

[Hide and Seek]

This has virtually no play value whatsoever. As a quick medal earner, fine, it is what it is, but without the medals I wouldn't have even played this game for more than a few seconds. There was no challenge, no game, just move your mouse around until you find something on your screen. Repeat until you get to 100 for all of the medals, never even think about or play the game ever again.

Some things that I think would immediately make this game better.

1) A time limit. Make this more of a challenge by having a progressively harder timer to find the next hider.

2) A battery life for your flashlight. It might as well have just defaulted on without the click because all you have to do is click once and hold for the rest of the game.

3) A score based off of how quickly you get to the next hider.

ByFa123 responds:

thx 4 review

[Hadros]

I can't get past the 11 sided medal, but this game is highly addicting. I keep finding myself coming back and wanting to keep playing it even though I get stuck around the same shape every time.

Maybe someday I'll be lucky enough to create a 12 sided shape!