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[Solitaire: Captive Queens]

Absolutely no skill involved

I like the concept of this game, but the fact that all you do is see what order the cards come up in and hope they let you go out takes out 100% of the fun for me. Plus it glitched on the first card I put up, by also keeping it in the deal stack. If you want to have an enjoyable solitaire game, you have to give the player choices.

egdcltd responds:

There is skill involved, if you don't pay attention you'll lose the game. Especially on normal or hard. It's not pure chance, but it's not easy either. Unless you play on easy anyway. I haven't seen the error you mentioned, I'll see if I can duplicate it.

[Ezam]

Finished it

Long game, and the last level is some serious bullshit, but I got through it relatively unscathed. I'm not going to do the other two modes though, because I don't have THAT much time to kill.

[Light Cubed]

Nice game...

But I think I have to call shenanigans on your full course time trial. I currently dominate your time trial leaderboard, and because of the random nature of levels 7-12 it's impossible to guarantee a fast time on those levels. Also, I added up your best times on the individual levels and they add up to more time than your full course trial.

That makes me think that you just created a time and submitted it, which is dishonest. If you can't actually finish in the time you've submitted (and judging by my findings above, you can't), then you have no business setting it as a benchmark. I think you should remove it in the name of fairness; such shenanigans sit extremely poorly with me, as they should with everyone else.

That apparent dishonesty aside, I like the game. It's a simple concept that's been done fairly well, and it's easy to get into. Good job on it.

[The Weed Wheel]

One problem:

Weed can spawn all the way off the screen, making it almost impossible to see it's there and then go get it. You need to restrict where it can fall a little more to make sure the player has a fair chance at it.

[love snake]

It works, I guess...

but the genre has been overdone, and done far better. The controls are sluggish, there's no music, and basically no personality to the game. It's great that you're excited about getting your work out, but I'd recommend waiting until you have more than a very basic game, which you've put a lot of work into rather than just enough.

[World of Flashcraft]

...great

Another person who thinks the RickRoll is still relevant. It's not interesting, you're not clever, and this is stupid.

OiSuzy responds:

...NO YOUR STUPID

[kick-A-mime]

Not bad...

But you're competing with the likes of Toss The Turtle when you put out a game like this. It's going to take more to make us love it.

For instance, a number of times I was going extremely fast and went right through a bonus, but because of my speed I skipped past it rather than collecting it. And it would be nice if the amount of money we've collected were visible on the screen for each run.

Also the mime looks really goofy when bouncing very short distances.

[Puzzle Escape]

Nice idea, but...

It's impossible to get a perfect score. Here are the problems:

On level 9, the correct orange piece isn't there. The closest you have is one that misses the branch off to the top left.

Level 12 is a duplicate of level 6

Level 13 sometimes crashes out and just has you lose it right away

The maximum score if you go perfect through the whole thing is 84

There is no replay button, so if you want to go again you have to close it and reopen it

Fix these things, and you might have a good game. As it stands, you have a good premise.

[Tarakan]

Can't go too far

It's not a very good game to start with, but if you reach the end of the map where the big black thing is, the map resets but the tentacles are nowhere to be seen. So your score keeps going up and up with no way to end the game. I got to 5 billion points before getting bored and restarting. I think my current 120 million is probably the highest score that can be submitted, or else extremely close to it.