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[Boxhead: More Rooms]

Games need to be more innovative.

The shooter genre has been to death and back again, then its dead body has been enflamed and kicked off a cliff and torn apart by wild dogs. When I see yet another game like this hit the top 50, it bothers me because nothing up there is innovative in the slightest. The control scheme isn't even that good; he should turn to face the mouse, not be turned by the arrows, because then he can't shoot while moving backwards for one. Yea I know I'm just slamming this game because it reached the top 50, but really, this is to all games in general: Be more interesting and unique then a simple point and click shooter.

Even if it's addicting >_>

[Beer Attack]

Cool idea but flawed.

For one, the controls seemed to be a little sloppy. Was it just me, or were they inverted on the right screen? That's not usually a good idea :P

Second, at times I would just stand at the counter and hit space in front of some guy like 50 times and watch my money go up. Why was that?

Another thing: I didn't understand what was happening. A quick brief of what was going on would have helped immensely.

Other then that: it was a cool game, with a great concept. It just needs a little bit of beta testing and cleaning up.

Ennglish responds:

Cool thanks for the feedback. I think I released it prematurely without fixing the bugs. That's what happens on too little sleep.
How does one take down a submition? Should I bother resubmitting it? or work on a new one?

[Astro Bomber]

Good start.

I can tell that your actionscripting is a lot better then this game betrays it to be. This game still needs a lot of work though. A few things you should do:

Make the sound effects not so loud and obnoxious.

Make it so that holding down the button only fires one shot. Otherwise it shoots off like a line of bullets, which is unrealistic and doesn't look right.

Have the health bar more evident.

In the story mode, all the text should be immediately visible. I'm too lazy to wait for it all to scroll up!

Keep working on it. You'll do good things with more practice, I can tell.

[sakura dress-up]

Not bad for a dress up, but

Can't you put your skills to something more interesting then this? I'd love to see graphics like these in an actual animation or game. Keep Flashing and submitting.

[Hungry Space 2]

Good.

But I docked a point because it's basically just Fishy (a different Flash game) with powerups. Can't you be just a little more original? Also, I remember reading that spacebar was a fireball, but all it seemed to do was pause the game.

mofunzone responds:

Thanks for the sincere review.

About the controls, it depends on what player you're playing as. Double check with the instructions and let me know if the problem still persists.

Thanks for playing the game :)

[DashDingo's tutoreuhl]

I love your humor.

Good tutorial. Although it didn't cover a lot, and it was only marginally better in explaining AS then a copy and paste tutorial (I would have covered all of the statements in the code beforehand, but that's just me) it was definitely pretty funny. I'd like to see some more stuff from you in this vein of humor.

[Drag The Dot]

Innovative.

I loved all the different and unique ideas you have here. I certainly enjoyed playing this game, although it was frustrating at points. I got as far as level 11. I hope to see more games from you!

[Centauri Dress-Up! :D]

Sorry for the blam

Resubmit this, and put a stop(); in the actions section of the frame with the dressup.

kissfromanubis responds:

Unforunately, I keep trying to do that and it's not working. ;-; This is awful!

[World Defense]

Fun but nothing special.

It was definitely a fun game, and I'll give you that. Still, it seems rather simplistic and not a lot is based on strategy more then spinning the planet out of the way. On the other hand, it's fun to play, so I boosted your score a little bit for that.

[Game Snake]

I love snake games.

However, there was one major flaw with this one: You could go right off the side! This means that it's about 5 times harder to accidentally die and takes all the challenge out of snake. This was hugely dissapointing. Next time fix that problem, please. Thanks :P