Reviews for Riddles of Renaissance

[CaptainHector]

Great concept

I think it's excellent that you've made a game that can challenge the brain, and educate people about the classics at the same time. A very interesting concept, and it forces you to analyze each piece in order to find the subject of the question.
However, I wouldn't call most of the questions riddles. Many of the problems were simply just: "Find this" or "Click That". The quality of the paintings was also a little trying for finding certain things, but then again, there's only so much you can really do when you're digitally transcribing 500 year old paintings into flash. I did enjoy it, and I would encourage you to create more games with an emphasis on education.

[SexyRussianMafia]

1 suggestion

The option to zoom in would help a lot.

[valkrion666]

neat game

the hit box needs to be expanded for a few of the pictures i clicked on the answer and it read as a miss all in all a fun game

[tjardo]

Like!

A cool game with a cool theme/subject.
But there are some things I don't understand. First, there is no need for any knowledge of paintings. You just have to think logical and look very closely.
Also, what's the difference between easy,normal or hard modes? I tried normal and hard but it's all the same. You can take your time in normal mode too, i've noticed.
Second, in the gallery there are paintings that don't show in the game itself...

The only real dissapointment for me, was that you HAVE to solve the riddle to continue. I'd suggest giving a credit point or something, so you can skip a painting if you really can't solve it. Or perhaps that skipping costs you like 30 points. In some paintings, I went berzerk on clicking everywhere because I had no idea what the answer was.

In one of the riddles:
"..these people support the world. People dressed in gold don't count." But the people in gold ARE the ones you are supposed to click!?!? Huh??

Overall, good game, could use some improvement. I hope to see a sequel!

mrty responds:

- Well, people who have taken art classes or have knowledge in art in any way have more of an advantage when playing this game.

- The only difference between the difficulty settings is your score at the end. Harder the difficulty, the less score you receive (depending on the time you took).

- Of course there are paintings in the gallery that aren't present in the riddles... They are extra, unlockable items.

- Initially, you were able to skip the riddles at the cost of 10 points. However, I figured that since there were only 30 riddles, the ability to skip them shortened the play time even more than it already is. Thus, I wanted solving them to be the only option.

- It's "These golden *figures* support the world". Figures aren't necessarily people.

- Thanks for the detailed review.

[DragaXD]

Decent

Nicely done, liked the choice of BGM.
The pictures were well selected, the objects of the riddles weren't too hard to see, and the hints definitely helped a bit.
Some of the sound effects annoyed me a little, but apart from that it's a nice little game.