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Brilliant

I love this game kinda unbalanced with some enemies and powers though.

Serious issues with lag the farther you get

Awesome game but the lag really hurts the gameplay. With so much going on it moves at a snail pace and it starts to effect your skills.

Programmer Tips

Hi, I really enjoyed the game.
I've noticed 2 things that might not be perfectly right about your game engine, though I'm not completely sure.
1) The camera scrolling is done with either arrow keys, WASD or by moving mouse to the edge of the screen. The problem is with the last thing. When the mouse is outside the window, camera's not scrolling. If you're using AS2 you can make a button over the entire screen with code in it:
on(rollOut){
_root.mouseOnScreen=false;
}
on(rollOver){
_root.mouseOnScreen=true;
}
//endcode
Initially mouseOnScreen should be false. If you have AS3, you should check if mouse position is outside of the window, and scroll the camera if that's so. I'm suspecting that this game is in AS3, because it can tell if I click outside of window.

2) I think I know why this is lagging. Upon examining the behavior of moving units closer, I've noticed that the game space is divided into little cells, and enemies are using what is called Pathfinding. That's bad for Flash, and not necessary at all. If all units are represented as circles, while some objects are rectangles, you won't need to divide the playing field into cells (meaning a unit's X pos can be 1.039 or smth), and you could apply a "sliding" algorithm for circle-units (involving maths). Pathfinding is needed only when there are obstacles on the ground, that need to be walked around. Blizzard's Wc3, for instance, ignores pathing of moving units. Screw cells.

I didn't notice any bugs, but I'm not feeling convenient about scrolling the camera with mouse, and I'd suggest you add mana points (!) AND A description for each of abilities when cursor is hovered over them, showing what it does, the duration of effect and cooldown. Can't say much else, 'cuz im just a retard lazy windbag.

I finally completed it. It takes ages to beat.
the game is very difficult but you do get the hang of it eventually. It's also very original and amzing
storyline: great
Graphics: great
the only thing that I didn't like was that the combat gameplay. the actual controls are fine but it's too chaotic. perhaps if you run in combat so you dont have to walk all the way to a catapult leaving the gate undefended when teleport is recharging. but still one of my favourite games on newgrounds

very good

the graphics are nice, the plot is pretty good and the gameplay is great. as expected of jazza and his team