Wow. What a cute little game you have here. A nice little cartoonish experience made in RPG maker, than can keep you busy and relaxed for about 30 minutes. The game feels a bit childish, but it can be approached by more adult audiences too. The cut-scene animations were pretty cool and gave the game a bit of originality, over the dozen of RPG maker games out there. The music was pretty good and it fit the atmosphere for the most part. The game runs rather intuitively but there are a few problems. Apart from the fact that it doesn't work on a few browsers, it also seems to get a bit laggy in the second part of the game. A few additions like a skip cutscene button, and some achievements could've made it reach a 5/5 review. I did make a let's play of it right here: https://youtu.be/XiexZtFqVoA . Hopefully it helps you with your educational experience. It was still a decent game, and I liked the puzzle that unlocked the second ending(although you needed a bit of memory to grasp it). A nice experience, and hopefully better ones to come.
Reviews for "Flatwoods"
Watching your Lets Play now, sorry about the frame rate issues, this being a port from an executable version that runs native at 720p its performance as a browser based game certainly seems to vary a lot from system to system. I don't think I will be making ports for Newgrounds for future game projects unless they are smaller than this one in terms of level design as I feel a lot of the issues are from the size of the maps. Glad you had a good time despite the issues with the game. :)
Damn that was a harsh ending. This game is awesome, I'm glad i checked it out!
Sounds like you got the bad ending, if you find all the pieces of metal (8 in total) you will get a much more uplifting one. :)
Yikes,didn't expect the end to be a bit creepy,but oh well. Well done on making this game! It's short but it's interesting,the story is simple and fitting,the animation cutscenes are well done,the character is cute(If there was a voice actor for him,I would pick Thurop Van Orman,the voice for Flapjack and Lil' Gideon).I give you 4 stars,make it longer next time. Great start so far! :)
There is a second less creepy ending if you manage to collect all of the weird pieces of metal. ;D
Nice little quest with some fun stuff to read and watch, the animated segments with their own OST added a lot to it complementing the more simple look, and I liked how you had to go back to the chicken house to get the final piece. It left me wishing that there were more 'puzzle' elements on it, but that can go for another project :).
Good job!
Thanks Butz! The length and lack of heavy puzzles is something I wrestled with throughout development, but with the game taking as long as it did to make (almost entirely due to my work schedule more than anything) I am still really happy with what I did manage to pack into the game. Its definitely something I will be trying to improve on with whatever I make next.
Loved it. Art style and music were nice, nothing more to say.
I encountered a few problems: When going to the menu with Esc and hitting it again sometimes it says "Security Error The operation is insecure.". The game locks up and you have to reload the page. Saving doesn't work for me on Firefox, is that intentional? If so, remove the Save menu. Last issue, on the dialogue for the bookshelf in the caravan (IIRC) it should say "worn out" not "warn out".
I am glad you enjoyed the game, but I am sorry about the issues you ran into.
A lot of these issues are due to the fact the game was made in RPG Maker, a lot of the features (such as removing saves) aren't possible because they are built into the core engine. While the program does now export to HTML5 it is still focused on exporting mainly for play as desktop apps and so the browser export is buggy, at best. Hopefully overtime they will iron out these kinks and give people more control over what features of the game the final output uses.
In terms of future projects I have no plans for making any games small enough to submit to this site sadly, but I hope for the sake of other developers a lot of these tools do get fixed up and ironed out.
You are also the second person to point out that spelling mistake ha ha, I will fix that soon!