Score: 6

"Try Michael Swain's version instead..."

by: elHerrero

date: March 11, 2008

I'd gotten back into Mastermind because of Michael Swain's The Mastermind Game on NG, so when I tried a search for it again, I came up with this and decided to try it out as well. I was a bit disappointed, maybe because I'd played Swain's version first. Let's see, the graphics are...well I guess they're better than a text version of the game. The background, with words moving here and there on a blue screen, is not all that pretty to look at, and a simple blue screen would have probably looked better. The sounds, I don't know, because I didn't have them on. The interface is what sealed it, though. I thought Swain's color-choosing scheme might have been pulled off better, but loopooi did one worse. Dragging the colored ball of your choice from the right of the screen to the left is in poor taste. If you had 1 ball of each color right underneath your guess input, that would have streamlined the game more. But hey, this is Mastermind, this game is originally a very low key affair to begin with, there's no flashes, no bells and whistles with the boardgame, so should we really expect it with the video game version? Actually, yeah, we should.

Score: 5

"buggy"

by: joza1

date: November 10, 2007

good game overall but i noticed a bug - i guessed four colours and said all were in the code. i got to the end and none of them were - fix please!

Score: 8

"..."

by: Hamy-jamy

date: June 16, 2006

Oh dear, i dont know what happened to me in this one i was only able to crack the code on the ninth try but i guess that is better then not passing at all. I thought that your actionscripting has been done really well, and besides the first version i havent seen any problems at all. I thought that the way that you slightly improved the design was subtle yet a nice touch. Music controls were also a good added bonus. I would like if you had alittle congrats flash after you have correctly identified the code and maybe have a bigger celebration the quicker you guess it.

~HJ~
(Hamy_jamy isn't even suppose to be here today)

Score: 2

"should have been"

by: Bezman

date: May 23, 2006

Started. Almost didn't bother playing after reading the bug. Played anyway and won on last peg on my last go.

- The intro is a bit slow. Text should pop in, not take a second to zoom in.
Annoying if you restart it.

--- Sound controls don't seem to work.

- Screen is a bit boring. Maybe add texture.

+++++ I like the game mechanics (the way it's meant to work).

------ The bug you cite is really a game-breaking one.

overall
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The bug really should have been sorted before submission.

Once you've done that, maybe consider adding options for # of colours, length of code...

Score: 3

"Still with the bugs"

by: Benk

date: May 23, 2006

I reviewed your first mastermind,and you said to read the instructions. Well when I have two reds and 2 whites then change my answer to something that I would normally do in a game of mastermind with my friends, it reveals bugs. So not only did I read te intrustion but I've been playing mastermind for yearrs