Score: 5

"Not bad but..."

submission: Sudoku Omega

date: May 8, 2009

Well, hello! Long time since I last logged to NG. Oh, how I missed this!
Nice game and design but, as Protoslo and UberBarista said I find the fancy colors hard to play the game. A solution could be on skins (just a suggestion! Paper skin, nice white cells with black grid skin, and one with colors for givens and guessed and this fancy one. Maybe just taking out the shadowing on givens would be great, the entered numbers could be grey to differentiate them from the givens). Customizable games are more user friendly with staying players, the occasional ones do not count.
I see that using just the mouse makes the player a little slower than using mouse for pointing and keyboard for entering numbers. The approach is good anyway, I saw other version with the numbers on the left which I thing IMHO it's way not user friendly, but I preffer using mouse and kb. Yeah, I know it is harder to program actions for every key but at least you need 9 (or 11: 9 numbers, 0 for erase and another key (shift or toggled enter) for entering notes).
Notes! What about them? I can't hold in my mind all the posible numbers for every cell and if only trying to memorize a row at a time it is annoying (the good thing is that it makes my memory stronger :-D).
I didn't found the bug that makes the possible numbers dissapear, maybe Protoslo's mouse is broken.
I saw that the timer counts 0:1. Usually seconds get left 0 so it reads 0:01 :-)
The overall design is good, nice graphics (although confusing) and music fits perfectly with the game (I think that songs should shuffle and not just repeat forever... Something more you can put on user customization!).
Well I tryed to be constructive, not just criticize your creation that is definitively good, but for me, not the best approach. Cheers!
Ps: Where it reads "Columns left". Shouldn't read "CELLS left"? :-D
Ps2: Südoku Omega it's named because it is your last südoku game? I hope you make another one!

Score: 5

"P to toggle the pause"

submission: Mutants II

date: May 15, 2008

Arrow keys to move and mouse to shoot. ¿Does it need more explanation? :-P
Equipt, not, equipped :-)
Press 1-5 to select between the weapons that you have picked up.
H for what?
Q for quality!
Also, could you add WASD keys for moving? T to talk would be fine.
Very good game! Keep it up!

Score: 6

"Good to kill... some time"

submission: Resident Evil Escape

date: May 15, 2008

Well it is a good game but it should be longer. You can also put a bit more of effort in the artwork.
What you need to improve is this: when you make a piece of text that triggers an action (button) put behind it a box (can be hidden) and point the action to the box, that way the players don't have to click the thin letters which is harder.
Also, do something alike with, for example the replay button at the end, it shrinks a bit OnMouseOver so if the player puts the pointer in the edge the fact goes true or false with every frame.
The plug in the bathtub was hard to see and the game is overall too dark (I know it's RE style but I complain anyway). You could change the shadow to make it softer. Just a bit.
The key in the hand was found thanks to my good friend <Tab>, thank you for leaving that option available, not many games nowadays leave that. Anyway, it was hard to click the key, being so small.
After I played the game I read the walkthrough and it says there are some easter eggs wich I wasn't able to trigger :-(
Keep it up!!!
7 is approved. You get 6 because I hate to click text instead of buttons.
Also, before entering the bathroom if I click the TextBox (door) again the text reappears, and the go back button is still on screen. It made me think that it was a bug (I wasn't able to enter the bathroom) and restarted the game. Shame on me for being so impatient or too lazy to click the text :-D