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[Programming God]

wow

This is the crappiest genre of games in the history of gaming. can't give it more than 2. and it has no relation to the game's title

[Finding my Heart]

nice....

Pretty much flawless
very well presented

[Vector Boom]

ok it was nice but

there was a (last?) level where they all lined up in order from the simplest spaceships to the heaviest spaceships...
but everytime the heavy units suddenly come in dozens of them, it unfortunately became a pure luck game.
- if you have a powerup you kick everyone's ass if you don't you lose

[Tankim]

nice game

Hey. I was drawn here because of the name,
I'm israeli too. I posted a game with tanks 2 days ago (now everyone'll think we're evil nation cause we like tanks so much :P)
Always nice to see Israelis making games.
Basically this reminds me of Star Control.
The battles are nice overall but have a few problems.
The controls are a bit problematic... Is there any reason to move foreward other than to pick powerups? If you want to move to distract your enemy and still shoot you have to always drive backwards.... this is never fluid gameplay.
You should have gone that extra step and extra key command to Rotate turret, like in old-school games you hold it down so the left-right affect the turret and not the body. This would increase the possible situations exponentially and I wont have to drive backwards all the time.
(but, if the AI could turn his turret perfectly then it'll be an imposible game :P )
Survival modes are always nice addition. I think the survival-mode tank should be much weaker than you not just weaker by a bit.
But for the first respawn, you don't see where he's gonna respawn until he suddenly shoots you.... that's not good either.
But I liked the slow way you came up with for when it respawns.

[Shmilobitch]

rofl man... you REALLY hate your teacher eh?

cool concept
The funniest is the guilliotine kill. more than the DNA :P

[EcoSaviors]

absurdity

Interesting how "kjrubberducky" interpreted about the president and bereaucracy and all that.
Shooting the alien was really nice... I definitely didn't expect that
but the "saving the enviroment" part is a bit... naive
That is my only complaint.
Speaking of this, The most realistic "Save the enviroment" game remains this:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view /360724

cavalcade responds:

Thanks for playing and rating. Well, we don't want anyone to be cynical on saving the environment now don't we? :D

[Raid Gaza!]

wow game

Not insulted by a word like "genocide" used incorrectly. It just means that you've never been to one.
But damn, starting the game with a mis-quote of Olmert was cheap.

After the drama has had it's time to shine, Reality starts creeping in....
Israel means this - jews live in the lands of their forefathers.
When somebody has a problem with that, they go ahead start attacking.
Sometimes they're a threat.
But now they're not
The world is not a holywood stage where the underdogs always win.
In nature(humans are a subset of this) you have to first prove yourself as more adapt before you can win. There's a variety of fields to do this. But if you pick WAR and are severely under-equipped, you either prepare to lose, or you are completely dillusional.

The people who fired those rockets either expect to get a better bargin by somehow winning the battle(dillusional), or they simply wish to convert their soon-to-be dead children into drama.
How will that help them? I dunno... but maybe it's some religious honor, or maybe they have a plan (beause it seems that exporting shitloads of images of dead kids is their most important aspect of battle)

raidgaza responds:

"But damn, starting the game with a mis-quote of Olmert was cheap."

I've provided the context for the quote (you can click the reference), so I don't think it can be called a misquotation. Obviously he didn't mean "kill all Palestinians", but I assumed this was obvious.

[Pragaras]

This immidiately starts off spitting dissidence

Well, they used so many damn cliche ideas that I just had to start looking for the message of it.

at one point you see what seems to be the mother of all cliches:
1)THERE'S WAR
2)SOMEBODY WAKES UP
3)THERE'S NO LONGER WAR
4)WOW, PROFOUND!

So in the end there is either a very silly message, or no message at all.
it doesn't matter. I'm giving it 9 because first, it tries, and secondly because of the attention to detail. the really interesting things are subtle and require special interpretation.

solving the puzzles is kinda boring. the rest is not boring. if there was more Game into it (not just slow-moving walk-animations with interesting backgrounds to look at) I would give it 10.

[Dino Run]

epic pixelation

This game somehow manages to CRASH my firefox.
But it's probably just macromedia/adobe's faulty plugin.

This game is elite.
I thought that the first time I played.. before I saw all that upgrades and depth in the objects around.
At first I thought every item was just a Health giver.
Because there is no interface and nothing stopping you from just jumping into the water.
What really kicks ass is the composition between background layer, foreground layer and the things that happen inside you game field.
The variety of meteorites and the disasters they cause is overwhelming which keeps the interest up until you figure out what the hell you're supposed to do.
Everything you can do is fun but Hard.
The A.I of creatures seems well tweaked. So even if it's dead-simple it's always challenging.
This game to me seems like a Mix between Adventure Island(NES) and E.V.O(SNES). Good games those are!
This game seems like it's adding the speed-run feel of the former into the type of world as the latter.
the pixels and filters and visual composition here are superb!
However, the music is slightly annoying!
gg anyway

pixeljamgames responds:

Thanks!

You know, you can turn the music off by pressing "m". it turns to ambient sounds.

[Jive Machine]

Oh my god

This game is definitely the perfect example of...... the Internet.

BlueHippo responds:

hahaha