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[The Wizard]

I played til they finally liked my song! The story is entertaining and funny in places (and yes, I chose the I want women option!), but this has some big issues- first thing is that the resolution is too large for my laptop screen (although the bottom is all empty space). Second, this needs thorough proofreading. The opening page has "it's great mines and their wise merchants"- there shouldn't be an apostrophe in 'its' when it's a possessive and 'their' feels like it's being falsely used as a synonym for 'its'. Also, "It's night time... cheer poured out the windowns". Aside from the clear typo, you're switching tenses (present to past) in the same paragraph, and this happens a lot.
Even just putting this through MS Word spellcheck will get rid of most of the typos, but taking a couple of hours to sit down and go over your story will definitely pay off for future projects.

Xuvero responds:

Thanks for the analysis, I really apreciate it.

I'm still trying to find a solution for the resolution problem: I left it quite large as to avoid getting some text to be left out of the embeded area in some passages, but I do want one that would fit on the screen.

And yes, I definitely should have done a better proofreading, and I plan on correcting this mistakes when I manage to spare some time. The MS Word thing is something that I really should have done, but I didn't think of it at the time, it was a mistake. Instead I checked it all manually, by myself, and as a result a lot of mistakes slipped through the cracks. I'm also looking for a more effective method of proofreading to use in the future.

[Idioms Game]

Wow, I made it into 6th for today- probably helps that I'm English- are these all British idioms? Hard for me to tell. Anyway, the game does what it does well, but it's very unambitious. More questions/ categories would be nice.

[Bio Evil 4]

This is the most addictive platformer/ shooter I've played in ages! The sections were just challenging enough to make me want to keep going after deaths (of course, this was on 'Baby'- normal difficulty was way beyond me). Sound and graphics are great too. More please...

Gypopothomas responds:

Thanks a lot!

[The Overnight]

Oh crap, I got castrated by a second bunch of slug things. The game's simple and enjoyable. The music's good and spooky- but a little bit more effort with the presentation could work wonders (even really simple things like choosing a less common font than arial). Also, I was struggling at time to pinpoint where I was, exactly with locations given as 'at the end of a corridor and then left' (or something)- then again, my sense of direction isn't the best in the world. Look forward to seeing more games :)

[Pico Checkmate]

This AI's lethal with its knights... Good chess game. Simple, but does what it needs to :)

[Danish Blocks Brawl]

Some really good ideas here. Personally, I'd like an option to have fewer units at the start, as it took ages to set up my attack when I was more or less randomly picking my guys without knowing how it would go (it might be easier for new players to understand how the units work with smaller fights too). The onslaught of sound effects kind of reflects the busy-ness of this.

ZoopaBig responds:

Thnx for the tips! It makes sense.

[Taxi apocalypse]

The mechanics are here for a good game- and if you keep at it you could make the next Micro Machines or something. As it is, though, it's somewhere between insanely difficult and unplayable. Also, when I press up, my whole screen moves up for a few seconds, even though I clicked in the window.

[Platformer Mixtape 2010]

Decent. Good level design and difficulty curve- the character maybe moves slightly too manically for me. I got as far as level... I don't know, it doesn't say- maybe put the level number in!