its relly good
you should make another one that contenues off from this one.
Reviews for "Story of the Blanks"
Quite nice.
The NES style graphics are well done and the music is great.
Nice little plot the game has, bit creepy near the end but still intersting.
Some elements of the plot are a bit confusing but that doesn't really take away from the game.
5/5 9/10
Good
The graphics were fairly detailed for a NES-style game. None of the backgrounds seem to have been reused. Different palettes during different parts of the story added to the effect of the scene while the backgrounds and sprites added to the feeling of playing a NES game.
The audio is good. The music sounds pony-esque and maintains the NES theme. Both audio and visuals manage to keep the theme of a pony NES game while remaining good quality.
The plot is good. When you enter the town where the blanks live, you hardly expect what is going to happen next, although the pony in the house with the crates foreshadows that something is terribly wrong. It could have been longer. It seems as though everything in the game happened quite fast.
The gameplay is good. The ghost ponies are enough to take most of the players off guard and keep them interested during the escape of the forest. More could have been done to add different gameplay elements. Most of the game is just talking to ponies.
You could contact Lauren Faust about turning the plot into a full movie or an episode.
Donitz responds:
Thanks for the feedback!
The people who made the music did an awesome job indeed! There are so many awesome chiptune artists out there if you just look around a bit.
The game was a bit short, 32 screens to be exact. That's actually based upon an arbitrary limitation I set for the levels to avoid spreading out the game over too many screens. Past experiences tell me that players don't particularly enjoy too many empty areas and tend to get a bit impatient if a game takes too long to get somewhere.
lawdy, I'd like to see this as an episode in the show. The one episode that gets the show banned in Germany and gives children over the world nightmares :D
Very Interesting
Alright first off: Great game. Never been a fan of "My Little Pony" but this was an interesting game. Second: Love the preloader. Very unique and original. Third: Love the 8-bit. Overall: Very unique and creative!
Awesome
I didn't expect it to get so creepy, but it was a nice surprise.