BenTibbetts's Reviews

[Learning Skills on the Internet]

Preach, brother!

[20 Years of Badger]

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[Untitled Neckbeard Show]

Yes, I think I would! I like the premise, which seems original and clever to me. As you indicate, it would be a fairly on the nose commentary about the recent rise and relevance of conspiracy theories.

[Yorpl]

This is lovely, John. Even within a short game, your talent for simple, memorable aesthetics shines through.

orange08 responds:

Thanks, Ben! :) Appreciate the review, although I know not everyone will be a fan of this degree of minimalism.

[Cactu-Sama]

I loved it! This was a pleasant way to start my morning. It was not very hard, and that was fine with me because it was fun and cute.

There were some chances you missed to create visual variety. The aesthetics of the desert could change with the music (e.g. at night, in the rain, etc.). The cactus could frown when it is stuck in a block, or melt when it is drowned in a waterfall.

The music was adorable. Did you write it? My only suggestion is I think there should be an additional separate track for the title screen, different from the first levels. Initially, I thought that short loop was going to run through all twenty levels, and inwardly decided to shut off the sound around level 5. I was grateful when the music changed, though I like that track a lot.

The gameplay could be easily expanded out of one screen, which I think is what accounts for the relatively easy difficulty level. You could add more colors and have the cactus track larger levels, forcing the player to genuinely remember the structure of the colors just above or below the visible screen area. You could also exploit the cactus's falling time, making the player change blocks from on/off in a tricky sequence as it fell through the air.

Thank you for creating and sharing this!

Diemorth responds:

Wow, what amazing feedback, I'm glad it was a good experience for your day! And thank you for the compliments.

As for visual variety, there really are more ways to explore this, especially if we add new mechanics :D We can make many interesting visual interactions, just like the ones you mentioned. :>

The songs are some magnificent cc0 works that are available on the OpenGameArt website, the credit for these beautiful songs is all of their respective creators ;} Your song suggestion is a great idea, I will consider doing this in the next projects I will bring to Newgrounds! I'm glad you didn't give up and don't muted the game :v

Again a great suggestion to expand the game screen vertically by working on the memory of what's above it. There will probably be tests with this and with possibilities for new blocks and more buttons.

I am honored that you enjoyed the game and wrote such detailed and consistent feedback. Thanks for playing!

[Minigame Monsters]

Beat it! Great work as always, very enjoyable little game. My only gripe is I didn't care for the audio in the final level; I found the distortion unpleasant there.

[Hideout]

Hey this is awesome! Congratulations on the new release. And the music video is adorable as well.

[COVID-19]

Hey! A friend sent me this track and I enjoyed it; here's what I wrote back about the music and its appeal.

"It's interesting how on the second listen the abrasive qualities become less surprising and you can hear all the other little details. The call and responses between the parts, cool rhythms/time signature changes which are repeated just enough. Some beautiful jazz chord progressions here too. I took a few minutes to figure out some of them; 0:24-0:35 it's Fm9, Dbmaj7, Am#11. 2:29 it's Bbmaj7, Gm9, Abmin-maj7. Super pretty and unique."

In the end the things I'm calling "abrasive" here (meaning a number of unusual dissonances and sounds) aren't really abrasive at all. It grows on you and eventually it all just sounds cool. Great work.

[-Field of Memories 2-]

Always good to hear your work, Waterflame! Thank you for sharing your music with the world.

[We must Carrion]

Beautiful! Great to see your work again, missed it :)

[Red Empathy]

I like this ongoing theme of skeletons with animals emerging from inside them. Somehow it's both creepy and touching.

Charongess responds:

Thank you. Focus on skeletons is absolutely the direction I plan to go in when I finally have time to create again.

[forsaken]

Gorgeous. Given the subject, it is especially poignant that this is done in a pixel art style.

maruki responds:

Thank you for the kind words