technomantics's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dravalanche]

Liked the artwork!

Too short of a game, and the animated hints you gave were pretty easy to know when the Dragon was going to attack.

Check out the old game Dig Dug for some inspiration about how you could possibly add enemies or surprises hidden in the ice. Like: is the next block going to spawn an enemy? Give me a bonus? Push me back up 3 or 4 blocks?

Maybe try adding a time limit so it feels like an impending doom if they don't rescue the people in time ;)

[Turret Tower Defense]

Neat concept, but...

Is a little bit rough around the edges. No sound effects or music to add a feeling of danger and eminent defeat? This doesn't have anything new or unique to separate it from similar games yet.

[Happy New Year 2011]

Work on optimizing it some

It uses up too much CPU (80-90%) on a 1 year old dual core CPU in Firefox and Opera. Try taking off the alpha channels out of the balloons (or only leave it for the special ones), and find a way to render that many objects faster if you can (maybe have the few ballons start out small, and then shrink them as more get cloned). At the end I wasn't sure what was going on because I didn't have control until the combos were done. Maybe explain that a little bit better for first time players. Good effort!

[Bomb Ghosts]

Neat little game!

I like the subtle puzzle aspects of it. I do wish there was more variety in sound effects, specially when you win ;)

[DJManiax]

This is well done!

I can imagine this on a handheld device or game console! Good fun!

[Color Trapper]

Nicely executed!

Maybe add a quick tutorial subtitle on the first level to remind people what to do who are too lazy to read the instructions like "Get the same color spheres as your square! Dodge the same color ones!" or something like that. I had fun with this trying to dodge all of them!! Add a theme with some nice graphics, expand upon it a little bit (like a Robotron or Zombies attacking vibe), and I see this getting better! =)

[14k Fish]

I like the simplicity but...

..the large fish are hard as heck to dodge! Fun little game, nice small file size!

mononog responds:

thanks, yeah
when 48 or 32k fish come out i will add a bunch of stuff and balance it.

[RPG Man]

Good effort!

Good job making this with The Games Factory 2 Newgrounds Edition!