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[- Rhythm Fireworks -]

Wow

I'm always amazed at how you can 'spit' these games out so quickly when syncing them to the music seems impossible to me (I've tried and failed with many games)
With most of your games I've found them too difficult to the point of frustration but this just nailed it. It was challenging but you didn't just die if you stuffed up once.
Great work, rock on dude.

Coolio-Niato responds:

it's been quite a while since rhythmblaster 2 *sigh* good times. Glad you liked it =) I shall rock on. xP

[Music Control Tutorial]

Useful

Good-
A nice effort and a good concept to teach people about...I especially liked the screen grabs from flash they looked kool.

Bad-
A bit too long and drawn out...you need to make things simple and concise so that the tutorial is really easy for people to use

Overall, nice effort it deserved a decent score and it got it and thanks for sharing your knowledge

Ash4792 responds:

i tried to make it as simple as possible, glad you liked it anyway! :)

[Bloop]

Nicely done

As a fellow game designer I was really impressed with the quality of the game...graphics were top notch. I think the idea is fairly limited though and hampered your score.....the very fact that people have to scan all over their keyboard decreases the gameplay a fair bit, and despite the fact that the graphics are great a great score will only come with better gameplay...but none the less I'd be interested to see number 2.

Outrage92 responds:

Thanks man. And yes, I think I will work on a second. You have just inspired me completely.

[Music Zap]

Well...

Nice game, but...do you want to know why it got such a crap score?
It's too damn hard!
Honestly...have you tried playing this yourself....as soon as they all start shooting it's just luck....theres no way (unless you are supremely skilled) to even guess where the beams are going to come from.
I really like the whole idea and your graphics and animation are top notch but difficulty is something you really need to consider...it can make or break a game..in this case it broke it.

Coolio-Niato responds:

Every author of a game undoubtfully tests their own creation thousands of times. I myself have beat it a lot, and thus made this one a bit more challenging for those thinking music stomp was too simple.

[Blang]

How am I suposed to review this?

You can't just expect people to know how to play your game.
Let me tell you a story-
There are these magical things in a land far far away, they are called rules, they help people to know how to play games, but one day there was a game called blang, it decided to not to use the rules and everyone got really annoyed and left bad reviews for the game.
THE END!

ReduxGames responds:

OK, I've put the instructions in.
Just start any game and you'll see them

[Draw-Play]

Very nice

As a game developer I really admire this game, really origional and really fun!
That being said you let yourself down with the poor graphics and it was a little bit buggy (I kept falling through the ground).
This idea is sponsorship and front page material you just need more experience and more ffort needs to be put into the graphics and programming...and I don't see any reason why you shouldn't do a sequel!
Well done mate!

EggysGames responds:

Thanks for the kind words :)

Yeah i guess theres a few things i need to iron out, defently will try to do all those in the sequel! ;)

[Goal In One]

Very nice

At first i thought this wasn't going to be very good, but once i realiused the whole concept i absoloutely loved it, great idea!
Only bad thing that i can say is that graphics were a bit cheap/unprofessional and the levels are a bit busy/too much on the screen at one time.

Phantasmagor responds:

Yeh graphics arent exactly my thing. i need a bit more practice with it. The levels being busy is just a part of the game. Just made it seem more real to me.

Thansk for the review

[Flash Encoder/Decoder]

Prettey good.

Although, the code is easy to crack even without knowing their number.

liam0 responds:

You must be incredibly 1337

[Street Rampage]

well...

Very entertaining, only prob was when the guy was down the bottom the next button was off screen so i had to quit, other than that it was great and i couldn't have done anywhere near as good myself so well done.

MattLutton responds:

thanks yeah i'll fix that next button

[SMASH!: Champions]

that was very nice

who im champion of champions yay!!
nice work..it was kool, and fun.

Smoking-Chimney responds:

thanks man:) nice review :D