StephenHutchins's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[We Become What We Behold]

Incredible. I'm beyond words.

[Numistik]

Really cool

[Dragonmyths]

i wanted to like this a lot more than I did but there are too many issues with it at the moment. Here's a quick list of things I noticed:

-There's no way to tell what level you are.
-you can't tell what level the enemies are without right-clicking and there's no indication that right-clicking even does anything in this game so if I hadn't played runescape before i wouldn't have even thought to try that.
-the vast majority of the enemies are way stronger than you even though you're in the starting area.
-it says your max health increases with attack level but it doesn't...
-it's basically a clone of runescape, which i wouldn't mind as much if the game was more cohesive.
-chickens break the laws of physics. if you follow them long enough they just disappear.
-there's no quick or obvious way to recover health and everything deals high damage even the low level enemies (2 and 3 is high damage when you only have 10 hp) so you have to spend too much time waiting to heal.
-since everythng seems to fucking slay you and you lose everythign when you die it's pretty much impossible to make progress.
-it's really unclear where anything is. are there shops? what use are these items? shoudl i sell them? where do i find things to heal? i can't really explore much because too far north or west and infected people kill me in a matter of seconds

This is a really good first attempt at something like this and it's obvious a lot of work went into this but you need to have more people test the game and get more feedback before releasing something like this because i hate to see so much potential underperform.

On the positive side the art is really cute and unique and the music and controls of the game are dope as well. I would honestly just work a lot more on this and rerelease it because it could be very dope.

I'd copy runescape a little less tho ;)

Maxiecole responds:

Hi, thanks for the detailed feedback!:)
A few questions,
what do you mean by "No way to tell what level you are?" Do you mean a general level of the character? Each skill has it's own level and can be viewed in the stats menu.
About the health problem, the third/fourth quest is practically a guide how to heal your health via potions and food. Before that it would be indeed hard to make significant progress.

[Tic-tac-toe Planets]

Hahaha you really just made a tic tac toe game online. You get one and a half stars because the graphic design and art is great but this is literally a game that you can play on paper.

I'm not trying to be mean but what incentive to people have to play your version? I would have recommended at least making it a variation on the original tic tac toe. (maybe 4 rows instead of 3? allow you to remove your opponents moves somehow? idk)

Anyway, you obviously know what you're doing art-wise so if you get a better concept I'm sure you could make a very polished game.

[Caterpillar Wants to Smoke]

Nicely drawn but I can just press "tab" to see where all the items are. There are definitely scripts to fix that though I've seen that issue resolved in other flash games

icyoak responds:

Very nice catch, I thank you for your observation and rating!

It's fixed now, partially (you can still tab through the inventory items). What I did in order to stop they TAB key highlighting the buttons/text on the Stage was to add "yourMovieClipName.tabChildren = false;" in my code. Maybe someone needs this solution in the future, cheers!

[DynoStory (1.02)]

The art is really cool. The controls are kind of wonky though. the jump doesn't always register and when you jump next to a wall it bumps you up a bit. Also there doesn't seem to be any checkpoints early on and the beginning of the game isn't fun enough to replay over and over trying to progress every time you die.

DynoStorm responds:

Thanks for your feedback! I've now added checkpoints ^^ (1.01)

I dunno what's going on with your jumps. I've specifically designed jumps to be very non-resistant so this confuses me. ╮(─▽─)╭

I'll fix whatever I can with optimisation in future versions, hopefully that might help.