first thoughts,
my first thought was this (i also blurted it out loud), fucking hell that snail can jump!
Reviews for "Snailiad"
Easily the best Castleroid Flash game ever made
You mean to tell me you drew and programmed this game and composed the music as well? That's unbelievable! And this is your first Flash game? If you've made more, where are they? Whatever happened to starting small? This game is a monster, and it's expertly and beautifully made.
I was hard-pressed to find any glitches. In the first room of Mare Carelia, there are some invisible blocks in the upper right area that I don't think were supposed to be there. If you try flying through that room you'll probably hit them. Also if you become a shell in order to fall into a one block wide hole, you'll become stuck and have to load your game. Also, sometimes jumping against a wall looking for secrets and stuff, I'd land on the wall as though it were a floor. It might be the code that makes you stick to a wall just not rotating you the right way all the time, or it might be simple collision detection sensing a block underneath you and letting you stand with just your "toe" on it even though there's another block above it.
Anyway, there is no end to the good things I have to say about this game. It's a masterpiece. Well done.
auriplane responds:
The second and third thing you said are glitches, but the first was on purpose--the clouds are a path to the helix above the first room :-) It could probably be called a design flaw, instead, since several people were confused by it.
And thanks! It's my first Flash game, but I've been programming for something like twenty years, and I've also written a zillion terrible songs over the years, so it's not like this is the first thing I've ever done :-) I made lots of stupid C64 and DOS games when I was little, but I spent most of the last ten years doing boring web stuff, so I thought it'd be fun to make a game again now that I'm a bit better at programming. I'm going to make more! :-D
Who said Snails are lame?
Bravo! This is definitly one of the best games ever made.
My review:
+Great graphics
+Lots of various enemies
+Epic music
+Very good controls
+The snails always say something new
+Lots of secrets
+Great Story
(+Did you code it alone?)
-A little bit too easy ;-)
As you can see everything is perfect. I'm waiting for Snailiad 2! Thanks to this game I'm learning now Flixel to make a game! ;-D
Ps: You're a genius.
auriplane responds:
Hey, I saw your flipnote! It was awesome XD Good luck making your game, and make sure to check out the Flixel forums if you have any problems! Yeah, I coded it alone. (I've been programming all my life, and professionally since 2000.) I'll try to make the next game (optionally) more challenging!
Well damn.
This game is my favorite game on Newgrounds. Nothing compares to it. Just..... nothing.