Score: 5
"ok, lets get started..."
date: June 8, 2009
The game was a little adicting but there a lot of things to fix.
The difficulty of the levels were changed, it seemed that you thought more enemies would make a level harder. Wrong; in the levels with more enemies there were more gombas to eat and so it was easier to become bigger, meanwhile in the levels with less enemies apearing on the screen I had to wait much more to become bigger (since there were less enemies to eat), forcing me to spend more time evading enemies, resulting in a harder level.
I finished all the modes and levels (at least once) and in all of then when you reach the size that make the gombas stop coming, you still stand on the level without nothing to do unless to close the game! It would be still acceptable if it happened only sometimes (as you said it could happen in the comment) but it happened every time I finished a level/mode.
The score had no purpose to the player at all (it's impossible even to try to beat your own score; result of the problem listed before). A good idea to fix this is to add a sistem of worldwide high scores (if you know how to do it... 'cause I don't XD).
The gameplay was good, simple and fitted well in the game (you even made a little "slip" to increase the difficulty), but you should add more features to break the monotony (like some abilities to use).
You could add enemies that make your movements slower or faster; or maybe an interference of the stage (as moving walls).
Also, try to put more efford on the game itself, you've just put a lot of movie clips moving around with only images at the background (or, in the better case, another movie clip).
And since the "drunk", "distraction" and "multi" modes had too little differences and challenges to offer, I'd consider then rather unnecessary unless you work more on then.
Maybe I'm expecting too much of you by listing all these possible improvements, but I think those are some things you could try to work on in order to make a better game (and get more fans).
That's my oppinion and I good luck with your future projects.
June 8, 2009
Author's Response:
" Maybe I'm expecting too much of you by listing all these possible improvements"
Not at all, i just don't know how to anymore. The actual script for this was done a long time ago. I don't even remember how to make buttons anymore.
I understand the concept just not the syntax. If i do change this game. I found that drunk mode only worked with slower machines. if you have a really fast machine then it worked fine. I intentionally bogged down the screen with moving movie clips to slow down the cpu but apparently you have a good computer. Distracted mode was mainly a way to use an old movie and multi mode was just a way to confuse you. I.E. do you go by each goomba or all of them. thanks for the review.
