This is a really nice idea. Atmosphere is good. But sadly there isn't more to it. I would love to see a more fleshed out version of this.
Reviews for "The Shovel"
JackAstral responds:
Thanks, I'll look into fleshing out the story a little more. Maybe I'll add in some extra locations and objects
Well, at the time i visited all places and get just one object, the game ended to fast. It didn't drag myself in and I got no time to raise interest in the game. Good backgrounds, but that's all.
JackAstral responds:
There are over ten objects to find that build on the story, and reveal what's actually going on. They glow when you put your mouse over them
I keep getting a glitch where I walk to left without being able to stop. This happens after I pick up the shovel.
Art was bad, sound effects sucked, map was bad, gameplay was bad. Doesnt seem like you put much effort into your idea. I think your game would have been interesting if youd worked on it. Calling it a "game" is a bit much imho. Also the footsteps? Most annoying sound ever
I hate to say, this game lags rather badly for me, even with everything else closed. On top of the lag making the game nearly unplayable in the first place, my Flash player crashed while I was playing, so I couldn't finish the game. My computer can run graphically intense games on high graphics settings; having constant lag while playing something on a good computer is a problem that needs looking into.
Even if I could have played the game without lag, although this was fairly well put together artistically considering it only took a few hours to make, the story wasn't the least bit interesting and I felt the ending would be pretty predictable.
I'm pretty sure the lag isn't just me (and I tried playing this on my laptop to verify that there is indeed a lag issue), and I noticed lag in your most recent Dead Detention episodes too, so you should probably look into what could be causing lag in your content.
More importantly, you should probably avoid telling these types of stories. Universe .08 related stuff is pretty good, but this was just a crappy, uneventful portrayal of generic cultists to me.
JackAstral responds:
Did you try playing at a lower quality?
It doesn't seem to be lagging for me at all...I'll look into it!