Reviews for The Hut in Ayre Forest

[torac]

Music was good enough that I could listen to it without being bored but not impressive. Backgrounds were simple. Fighting was boring but could be avoided by jumping over enemies. Story was decent if unexciting. Had to go back once because walking right changed the text before I could read it. I stopped playing when I tried to leave "the rack" to defeat the wolf as an adult. I accidentally let the character jump and it decided to fly off.

Overall decent without anything novel or interesting and with a big minus for the bug.

[SydniLouise]

Okay, the artwork is nice, and so is the music. I know your really proud of this, but it bored me to tears. You press two buttons. And walk. That's about it. There needs to be more to it, this was just plain lame. Sorry.

[arandomperson002]

It might have been good. I really don't know, because when I was maybe two minutes in, I got frozen in one place, then jumped and flew offscreen. There is a lot that needs fixing to this game.

Troisnyx responds:

Please, tell us. Whereabouts did this happen? This jumping and flying offscreen has been recorded by one or two people, but tell us where -- we'll fix it.

[LaResistanceLivesOn]

Good potential, but wasted.

Ok, so your other game was in AS2 -- it was acceptable because it was already so retro. That's why it was popular. The fact that it was vulnerable and glitchy, even for its simplicity, was still acceptable. Hell, it made the front page.

This game is not even on the same spectrum. The wasted potential is not the programming, but the artwork. The style alone could tell the story, but with the bugs (knockback issues, stumbling clip events, collision faults, etc.) it is hard to appreciate it.

My opinion: Drop this completely, hold on to the artwork and sprites, rewrite it in AS3. Or who knows, maybe stick to runtime scripting and POP but port it in HTML5. But learn OOP, if you haven't already. Your work will become far less buggy, and you won't have to play the frame-by-frame program game.

Oh, and I wouldn't recommend naming your NG API key as "encryptionKey".

[Praise]

that's some awful programming... story wont so hot either