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[Toss the Turtle]

I love the game

Two comments about medals:

1) The Abducted medal is insanely hard to get for a 10 point medal. By which I mean unreasonably difficult. By which I mean in 64 tries I've seen a UFO twice, and it always goes by WAY too fast to make any conscious effort to navigate to it.

2) I'm sure you know this already, but the WorldsEdge medal isn't working. My best distance so far is just shy of 600,000 and I have no WorldsEdge medal.

Other than those, everything about this game is golden. I'm looking forward to your next one.

[Quicktype]

In-game popups block the game area

Neat idea, but there are two things wrong:

First, the words need to enter from the right. Otherwise on long words you can't start typing until they're already a fair distance across the screen. That's pretty trivial though, since by the time it matters there are enough words on the screen that it doesn't matter anyway.

More importantly, the in-game popups obscure the words that are behind them. I fell short of 10,000 because a popup obscured the word I was after and I couldn't see what it was to type it. Gotta put those popups out of the way.

eidern responds:

words entered from right are part of challenge, you can try to guess what word will come, and I avoid longest words, i keep them for the bonuses.
And i'm aware for the bonuses obscured, i'll try to add more transparency, because i can't see where I can place it elsewere..If you have some suggestions i'll take it !

[Upgrade Complete!]

Great concept

I love it. My best time for 110% completion is 1280 seconds (that's 21 minutes 20 seconds for those who are interested). Also, is it just me or does upgrading the graphics make it easier to pass the waves? If so, is that intentional or is it a side-effect of the different graphics quality?

[Pilgrimage]

Excellent game

This is one of those games that's really unique because it does something you've never seen before. I have never seen graphics that degrade as the game progresses, along with the music no less. Very fun to play, just the right length, and it's actually possible to see exactly what's going on when you get to the 8-bit stuff at the end if you're patient. Job well done, gentlemen.

[Medieval Rampage]

Almost perfect...

...but there are a few things that in my opinion significantly take away some of the fun of Survival mode:

1) Enemies can spawn right on top of you, dealing you inescapable damage; you should never be given damage simply by an enemy spawning. I'd suggest either making sure they're a reasonable distance away, or preventing them from attacking or dealing damage for a few seconds after spawning.
2) Enemy melee attacks always hit, even if you're a hundred pixels away when the attack animation finishes; you should be able to dodge their attacks by being quick enough.
3) Every so often I'll have a game where it seems like bows are incapable of dropping. I just played a Survival game while wearing Level 6 Armor where I got a long bow at about kill 40 and a crossbow at about kill 230, with nothing in between (I also ran out of light arrows around kill 100 and didn't see any more again, ever). By then I'd taken too much damage from enemies being practically invulnerable for me to stand any chance of reaching 5000 points; I count myself lucky that I reached 2500. I think it should be hardcoded in that when playing Survival mode, bows drop at certain times (i.e. long bow at kill 25, composite bow at kill 70, crossbow at kill 150, compound bow at kill 280) to make sure the player doesn't end up in an impossible game by pure chance.
4) Need hotkeys for switching between arrows, especially in Survival mode. Half the time when I moved my mouse down to click on an arrow I went too far and clicked out of the game window, which totally screwed me in the game, plus you have to look down at the arrows instead of at the things that are coming to kill you in order to do it. Alternatively, making it so switching to a bow automatically switches to the most advanced arrow that bow can handle would work fine too.
5) A save/load feature would have been nice. For those times when you start a game but are interrupted and need to turn off the computer, so you don't lose your progress.

Also, a weird oddity: during my Campaign game in Level 6 Armor, at the beginning of levels 15 and 25 my health just dropped itself by about a third with no reason that I could see. Weird.

Also there's no sound after clicking Retry. FWIW I'm using Firefox 3 with Flash Player 10.

Those things aside, this is a fantastic game that kept me interested for what it tells me is 7 hours and 49 minutes of playtime. It reminds me of Diablo 2, since so much of the game is based on moving in the correct way to herd the enemies where you need them. Having just failed in Survival mode about 10 times in a row, I'm now going to take a break and come back for my final medal in the game at another time.

[Polygonal Fury]

This game is begging for medals

Great game. Curse you for keeping me up until 5 in the morning! ;)

Anyway, I think there are some medals that could live in this game:

Get all levels gold (or fully upgrade everything; they're synonymous, basically)
Destroy 25,000 polygons
Create a reaction that takes more than 2 minutes to finish
Finish the game without reassigning you upgrade points
Finish easy without buying any upgrades
Finish the game in under 3 hours
Bronze the final level in 3 clicks or less
Have exactly 1 of each shape on screen with no reactions going off

Great game, I'm looking forward to your next.

[AN Escape Series #4]

15 minutes flat

I liked how the dental floss, which looks like it should be a red herring, turns out to be the most important item in the game. The first thing I thought of when I saw this on the list was actually that it looked similar to the video, I'm glad you were able to put it all together for this. Looking forward to the next one.

[Name That Anime 2]

Needs more

Needs music. Needs a progress counter so you know how many you've done and how many are left. Needs bigger pictures. Also the Lupan one has Lupin in twice, but the first time it has a space in front of it; functionally it's the same answer twice.

GinKadia responds:

As I stated in the comments, couldn't add music. It's not the same answer. You need to look closely at it

One says Lupin the 3nd and the other says Lupin the 3rd

[Pitfall 2009]

Not bad

The music stops after a while though. Feels like it's supposed to be repeating itself.

[Super Karoshi]

Found a bug

If you play the game after beating it, it never loads a level and just sticks you on a TV screen with the closeup of the guy's face forever. Otherwise, awesome game.