Feedback on my new game Flydrill

[axcho]

I just finished making a game in Flash! I call it Flydrill.

I'm thinking of posting it on Newgrounds today for the Flixel February contest, since I made it in Flixel! So I wanted to get some initial feedback here first. :)

I've put it up on a web page here for testing: Flydrill

"Explore an infinite dream world. Survive an endless nightmare. How far can you fly?"

Instructions are in the game, though the controls are simple - just use the arrow keys.

(sorry about the preloader ads - Mochi puts them there in exchange for hosting the file. I'll be replacing them with NG ads when I submit it here.)

If you have a few minutes, please give it a try and let me know what you think! I want to make sure to catch all the problems before I submit it to the portal...

Thank you. :)

[axcho]

I notice that several people have tried the game so far.

Any suggestions or feedback though? How did you like it?

[rubberducky7]

I think the game is really good, you should just be able to drill in all directions

[Mikay]

Quite good, but let us drill in all directions, also, make the player character stand out a tiny bit more, it gets confusing wiith him looking too much like everything else

[Seventy7]

Don't add in the ability of drilling in all directions, that'd make it too easy..

[axcho]

At 2/28/10 07:00 PM, Seventy7 wrote: Don't add in the ability of drilling in all directions, that'd make it too easy..

Yeah, I think I have to agree there... ;)

This game is actually from a dream I had. In my dream I could only drill in one direction - to the right - so that's how it is in the game. :)

Okay, well, I think I'm about ready to post it. I finally got all this Newgrounds API stuff working. That took forever!

I'll post again once it's up...

[axcho]

Flydrill is live!

Play Flydrill on Newgrounds

There seems to be an issue with submitting and viewing high scores on Newgrounds. I'm trying to fix it right now...

[axcho]

Issues fixed! :D

I've updated the game with several bug fixes. Everything should work fine now.

If you have a few minutes, I'd really appreciate it if you would try the game and let me know if it is working for you too. It works fine when I test it. Thank you! :)

[axcho]

I've updated the game yet again!

Some people had suggested that you should be able to move by holding down the arrow keys instead of just tapping. So I changed the controls a bit, and now you can glide by holding the arrow keys. :)

I also added a major performance optimization, so the game will not gobble up RAM like a RAM-gobbling monster. This means it will run a lot more smoothly and not lag so much! Yay.

Try it and let me know what you think:

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