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[Boxed Boxes]

I haven't seen anything like this before.
If this something you came up with, then talk about an original concept!
That's really hard to come by these days, very clever!

[Repopulation]

What is up with those animations in the intro? Amazing!
Some of it looked like 3D with pixelation shaders, and some looked like pure pixel art.
Is it mixed, pure 2D or pure 3D with shaders?

MartinJacob responds:

Hi! Thank you for your kind words!
It's 100% 2D pixel art

[The Reboot]

So, an AI was created to save humanity. Then, because it couldn't reach perfection, it decided to wipe out everything to start over? Not menacing at all!

That's a very nice puzzle game and a refreshing concept, but for me the cherry on top is the art. I spent quite a while in the start menu alone, taking in all the details and the art style.

Amazing!

MartinJacob responds:

Thank you! It's a pleasure to read feedback like this. Let's hope it's a pessimistic take on AI :')

[Endacopia - Demo]

What the heck. This is so original and fun, and there's so so many details everywhere, EVERYWHERE. I've made games in the past and I know what it takes to make a good game with just the absolute necessary mechanics. Imagine putting effort into creating lots of things that do nothing for your main objectives, but greatly enrich the player's experience. Its evident that there's so much passion put into this. I'm truly amazed.

[Last Slice]

Doggle has the same dialogue as Hyun right after you beat his game. Other than that, pretty cool game!

JasoonMargoon responds:

That'll be fixed Monday, sorry about that!

[Radiance Hearts]

Tell me you plan on making a full game. PLEASE.
I need that in my life.

Yword responds:

Thank you so much for playing! (And I hope to make a full version in the future too.)

[Binary Quest]

Cute game. I can't seem to find the ending 8 though...

[Elementalist: 0]

I really really like this game. It's very hard for a game to bring me back nowadays and this one did it 3 times already, just today. It's grindy, but I understand that's part of the design. The one thing I must say could be changed is the attack charge time. The gameplay gets so fast paced that if I stop attacking for the time it takes for it to charge I just get wrecked. The charged attack also does about the same damage as 3 normal consecutive attacks, and it's a lot better and faster to just attack multiple times. I bought the upgrade and pretty much haven't used it.

Franuka responds:

Thanks a lot for the comment, I'm glad you're enjoying it :D
True, the map is quite small and the attack cooldown can be a bit high when there's too many enemies spawned at the same time.
Charged attack is very situational. Usually it's not worth it, as you say, but if you invest in attack upgrades it can one-shot anything, and it becomes useful later on when there's healers and you can't rely on basic attacks to kill some enemies quickly. Also, it's super useful for the bossfight ;)

[Scrap Arms Demo [OLD 2019]]

I'm not sure what to say about the gameplay, it feels like it's probably being made to be played with a gamepad and I don't have experience with that to say what should be changed. Overall I liked playing through it.

What I'd really like to point out is the characters bonding. There was not much of a story in this demo, but the few speech interactions they had made me understand that the bond between them is very strong, and because of that, the end hit me hard in the feels. That s*** was sad AF.

I'll give it a 5, because I know I'd gladly play through the end just to know more about the story, even if I felt the gameplay itself was just average.

BigBossErndog responds:

Thank you! I’m really happy the characters got through to you, it means a lot :)

I will definitely be doing a lot more testing with the controls for the final game, some people have found it awkward. Mind pm-ing me which control scheme you were using and discuss it further? (Like if you used keyboard, mouse, hybrid, touch, etc)

It is possible to play with a gamepad, slightly buggy in the web version, but works just fine on the download version.

[Diamondstep_DEMO]

This game is outstanding.
The sounds, the music, the graphic style, the difficulty curve and the limited number of lives are all things that, in my opinion, are perfectly balanced.
I swear I had ZERO lives left when I beat the last level.
I'd 100% buy this as a full game!

Andostress responds:

omg really thank you very much for your encouragement :o