Cool
This is interesting because I've never seen a game like this before, not to mention it's fun! Of course, I do love blowing things up. The name is amazing too.
Reviews for "Robot Reaction"
HybridMind responds:
I like blowing things up too! ;) Thanks for playing my game and leaving your review and feedback. I'm glad you like the name. I was amazed it wasn't taken!
What a game should be...
......quick,..polished and most importantly,...fun as all hell.
HybridMind responds:
Thanks for the encouraging words, I appreciate it!
Nice concept...
But the game itself was kinda boring. It only had 10 very short rounds and it wasn't that challenging.
I read some of the reviews and I think people took this game a bit too far. This game is not about winning (wastedfate).
The gameplay it self is fun but it's getting boring after the fifth time I played. The explotions effects were the best and the most annoying thing is that the backround music (which fits perfectly to the game's concept) is very dim...
For the next game try to remmeber:
FIC:Fun, Interesting, Challenging.
NTS:Not, Too, Short.
HybridMind responds:
Thank you for your thoughts and feedback about my game. The scope of this game was intended to be fairly small and casual in nature but I hear what you are saying. Some of my favorite games are really quick though so it is likely a bit of genre bias going on in player preference. I was making a game that I really like and it is always interesting to see how it is received by the world at large. Thanks again!
Good, play on popular concept at moment
fair few of these chain reaction games going around at the moment, I like this one because cool robot figures your blowing up rather then random dots, little short, maybe next one should have a challenge it it like, kill 30 robots to pass to next level type thing, I like the way different robots explode in different ways, maybe document that in a how to play type thing, rather then people having to work it out after playing a few times.
HybridMind responds:
Thanks! Yeah, the chain reaction genre is always fairly popular. I've wanted to do one for a while but didn't want to just do another boom shine clone. I also like to think about game wrappers and polish a good bit so it was a fun opportunity to draw robots and sci-fi backgrounds for a change! ;) I like your suggestions and will likely increase the scope of any derivative projects that come out of the feedback I receive on this one.
Too short, but great concept.
As far as playstyle goes, it's a very short game and there isn't so much motivation to keep playing after a game to get a higher score. I very much enjoyed the chain reactions and such though, and how the robots did different things. Maybe you could lengthen the game by having a quota each level, and having it so that players cannot advance until they reach it. It just seems a shame, because clearly you put a lot of work into the game, but i'd imagine it only holds most people's attention for about 2 minutes at most. I'll just speak for myself, my life sucks enough that 2 minutes of escape is insufficient.
HybridMind responds:
Thank you for the constructive thoughts and feedback. I agree that it feels pretty short. I wanted to get the concept far enough along to release and receive further feedback though before embarking on a larger design. I hope to address duration concerns with any followup games in this genre. I'm sorry that I didn't provide enough escape from your life, hang in there and thanks for playing!