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[Ninja Runner]

Gotta love no instructions.

RodrigoWi responds:

The first time you start the game, there are keys showing where you launch kunai and where you use the parachute.

['DinoMelt']

The first really worthwhile platformer I've played in a while. Amazing!

Butzbo responds:

Thank you sir! :)

[Endless Papyrus Fight Test (Undertale)]

Do not steal and repost other people's content gtfo here with that.

This isn't YouTube this is a community of creators and viewers who are trying to support and keep alive what's left of a golden era of internet content.

This isn't a file dump for re-uploads of other people's shit.

FlamesAtGames responds:

I made this, what are you talking about?
If you've found it anywhere else online, please let me know where.
This is just a WIP test build for a bigger project I'm working on, and I haven't released it anywhere else.
If it's on any other website, then someone must've stolen it from here.
Please send the link.

[Sucker Munch]

Very dope! The level progression is really good. It gets hard just fast enough to get used to it and not get stuck for too long but after a point the difficulty ramps up quickly.

VeryEvilTomato responds:

We tried to do our best in the 3 days we had, but I completely understand the difficulty ramp up

[Ink's Sleep OLD DEMO]

Very cool! The game is startling in a good way. the art looks dope and so does the walk cycle. The bows have me stuck though. I see the pattern on the wall but if you get it wrong once does it reset? because I've done it three times correctly and it does nothing. or does it always reset after three? because I wasn't paying attention at first and I didn't keep track of if my move was divisible by three and thus at the start of a pattern. not sure what the issue is.

tRipGlyPh responds:

Thanks! The first puzzle is not broken. Try different solutions based on the pattern on the wall.

[INFINIT JUMP]

The art looks great and the gameplay is alright but really repetitive and not that original. I can only assume based on the current trend and the fact that the aspect ratio looks like an iphone that this is another iphone app clone?

DurzanTwo responds:

No, it's not an iphone clone !!! I'm studying games designer so the repetitive scenario !!! But I'll try to work on something different so I do not get repetitive but a more attractive game

[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.

[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!