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[The Green Kingdom]

I hardly ever write reviews on here, but this is the best game I have played in a long time.
The art and controls speak for themselves--just fantastic. The game feel is outstanding. But the cherry on top is the rating system. If you try to advance by just passing the levels, you're missing out on the whole game. Forcing the player to use a different strategy to accomplish a specific goal to earn a three-star rating is brilliant.
Level 13 was my favorite. Having to attrit my own supply while fighting the enemy at the same time was a unique challenge. I've never had to do that in a strategy game before.
Overall, please continue making games in this style. As mentioned in the other comments, a multiplayer mode would be awesome.

ploska4 responds:

The best comment we ever had!
Thank you, HeardTheSound, for so really good respond!
We'll think about the continued of the game or level-pack, of course.

[Room Escape Evolution]

Room 9 is guesswork, as usual. Awful game.

selfdefiant responds:

Wow, that's exactly what I would expect from someone who isn't a puzzle person. Well if you were, you would have solved it and it would have made sense.

[Alone on Raven Road]

"Let's make them try every combination of the letters SHARP, that will be a good puzzle!" -an idiot

selfdefiant responds:

Well genius, there are only 2 possible answers in English, Harps and Sharp, Unless you want me to make something up?

[Abducted by Aliens]

I couldn't figure out the buttons next to the plants. How on earth are you supposed to know to push them in that order?

selfdefiant responds:

Tricky, tricky. Count the numbers under the plants.

[#Escape: The Waiting Room]

Pretty fun escape game. The difficulty was good--it was challenging without being brutally hard. However, the controls were downright confusing. I appreciate that you experimented went out of the box, but the traditional center-of-the-room-facing-the-walls method is used for a reason. It was very frustrating to click the sides of the screen like one would do in a classic escape game and have nothing happen. Having to click "back" all the time got tedious.
I also encountered a glitch: if you feed your receipt to the machine before zooming in, it takes the item but still asks for a receipt, and you have to restart the game.
Anyway, keep up the good work and congrats on getting daily 2nd :)

Aprime responds:

I guess I could stick to how it is now, and include the classic elements such as clicking the side of the screen to rotate around. Actually that probably wouldn't work due to the panoramic view I have going on.
I think the true reason for having it in the center of the room, originally, was because the people who programmed it only knew how to create buttons. But, yeah... it must have stuck around for a reason. That being said, I'd wouldn't change the way I done it... I enjoy the panoramic feature I've integrated. Athough, I probably won't have it in the next one... if I create another.
Hmm, as for the glitch you've stated... I'm sure if you tried to do that again, it wouldn't work. I've just done what you've said and no glitch has occurred.

Thanks for teh review! xD

[The Ocean Deep]

Honestly, this concept has been done a million times before. You contributed nothing new in terms of gameplay or storyline. The graphics were neat, but you still played it very safe since pixel art almost always looks good and doesn't require much skill.
Overall, it needed something NEW. The maze-like map and overall concept were boring and blatant rip-offs of other games. For a first submission it's not bad, but you need to provide something original if you're going to be a successful game designer.

TechnoWolf99 responds:

I understand your point, although I did not intentionally copy anything. I mostly just went with something that I knew I could do in a short amount of time at my experience level.