Hm, simple, yet not bad at all.
~ Animation/Graphics ~
The animation was great and the graphics were very good for a game like this. I have no complaints about your art work or anything like that. I do think there are some places for improvement though.
I would like to see a little more going on in the background. Instead of stationary clouds you could have the clouds animated and moving in a continuing loop. The sun could be waving back and forth like it was on fire, and there could be animals or other things going on in the background. Not only would this make the game look better, but it would also make it kind of funny. Like everything is going on just fine except for the fire in the front. Maybe instead of animals you could have people standing there taking pictures of the the whole scene and news vehicles.
I do think that only having three different characters would make it boring after awhile. Personally I only got through the first two because I actually found the game to be kind of difficult. Even if you didn't want to add different characters then you could change the dress of the characters around so they aren't all the same.
Like I said, these things will really add to the submission, but the animation and graphics that you have are really good. :)
~ Story/Content ~
I thought the game was hard, but it really wasn't about the game. It was more about how laggy my computer is. That's why I won't take away any points for the gameplay. On top of that my computer has this glitch where it clicks off the game sometimes, which therefor makes it impossible for me to move in the game. It would be nice to have some sort of pausing system set up where the game would pause if the mouse accidentally clicked off of the screen.
I was brainstorming some ways to change this from a simple game into a great game that people will remember. Hopefully you will take some of these ideas into consideration for future games that you create. :)
If you add Levels then you open up an entirely new direction for this game. For example, you can implement a money system where you would generate money depending on how many people you saved. Instead of having lives you could go with the direction of having a goal for each level, which would tie in with the money system really well.
So yeah, with the money you could have a store in between levels. They could by upgrades like bigger net, strength (moves the people higher and further so you have to hit them less times), and some kind of interest upgrade or system where they could get 10 percent more gold of their total at the end of each level or something along those lines.
I think another thing that makes games better is to add a story behind it. Instead of just this place randomly being on fire perhaps you could add a background story to it some way. For example you could have some kids playing with matches and they set it on fire, etc... I'm sure there is something that you could come up with that would be pretty funny and would really add to the overall effect of the game. :)
~ Audio ~
The audio was pretty good all around. You had nice sound effects and the background music was good. I think that something that you could have done is make a couple more sound effects for the old people. Perhaps just some random generic old people moans and mumbles could have added more humor to this game. :) I'll do things like this in the future if you ever need a voice of some sort for a game.
~ Overall ~
The graphics and animation that you had were great, but there was room to add more. There could be some sort of story and a cool store system behind this game if you wanted to make it a little more complex. There could be a couple more sound effects as well.
It's a nice simple game as it is though. Keep up the good work.
~ Review Request Club ~
