Very cool game. It makes a lot of fun. It seems very stable and bugfree. Good Work

I spent the last seven or so hours messing around with it trying to find bugs and even after 5 hours of testing whatever I could find, I couldn't find any bugs.

Well, first thing is first Ulillillia, congradulations to you for "finishing" your game. Ive actually been waiting for this to come out so I could see what youve been talking about all this time . Its cool that its finally finished, and out there for us to play.

That being said, ill get into the critique...

The Good:

Honestly, its pretty fun seeing how high you can jump... I spent a good 15 minutes trying different combinations of moves to get as high as unhumanly possible, and let me just say that I blew your city away . Couldnt even see it anymore, and the scaling is cool. Actually gives you the feeling that your are jumping REALLY high.

The graphics are very clean, and all of the animations for the character are nicely done. Its pretty impressive that theyre all 2D pic's.

The Bad:

Unfortunately, since its only the free version, I recieved errors galore. I understand that is because I have not paied yet, but it was just annoying . Not really a "bad" I guess...

Also, to be honest, it got a little boring after I could no longer get any higher . Sorry to hit you with that, but im gana be honset with you here.

The Ugly:

I know your gana hate me for this, but your UI... It is fairly confusing, and the white text, with the pale city visible in the background began to give me a headach.

Also, your tutorials are FAR more complex than they need to be. Your explaining height factors and scaling and all this, when I really just want to know..."how the heck do I jump." You made it far more technical that it needed ot be.

In conclusion, the game feels like you spent A LOT more time on the math aspect of the game, and you drone it into the players head as they are trying to figure out how to play. The game is good, and feels solid, from what I have played. However, I was left with a headach after reading all of that text, only to find the two words "left shift" nestled on one of the last pages .

The math seems to be solid as well. All the scaling does look nice, and the gameplay with without flaw (at least that I have seen).

As final words, the game is good, but is not without its shortcommings.

Good luck,
Raddaddy

Well, if I had an alternative for account activation at Regnow, I'd release the full edition on there. It may take a day or two before I can even get a chance to do so.... The part about contacting a representative shouldn't have to be required - it's very annoying and extremely inconvienient.

If you haven't noticed it, in the menu help area of the tutorial, the controls are given right there in a very quick form. It says "Quick review: key - what the key does". I added that for simplicity. I'll edit my original post to include the controls.

The feature comparison chart explains what each edition supports. The bounce stomp doesn't work when going faster than 400 mph. The fall-glide-hop doesn't work when going faster than 200 mph.

If you don't want the city, just use the visibility menu to take all buildings out.

If there was a way to dynamically change the text color of bitmap fonts, I'd do it. There isn't a way to do it, so the color remains as is. White has the highest contrast so I used that.

As for the errors, there are several around.

Edit: I could add another feature in the menus to suppress the unimportant error messages (like the jump error, stomp error, and the related - load errors will never be suppressed).

WOW! Congratulations Uli for finishing your own game. I just downloaded and had a first look on it:

First the bad things and then the great things. Note: I don't want to make you angry or sth. like that. I want to give you tips. Sorry for my bad english, I could write nicer in german. But at all I hope you will work on with your game (because no game can be perfect this is unpossible) and so I'm waiting for the next release. I'm sure now developing makes much more fun than before, because now you have to modify, optimizing and so on.

- too much texts to read, too small font sizes and a really boring font type(it looks like a DOS game from 1990, we live now in 2006!) -- use TrueTypes instead they are flexibler,easier to develope and are looking much better MUCH more professional, use more different font colors

- not the best key setting, use buttons to click on sth. instead of keys

+ clean look, but not great(beautiful), great city effect(houses,sky)

+ stable, fast, bugfree -- OK, this is now the best positive point. I havent seen this before in any 3dgs game. Lots of games are really low, not stable and have bugs and your game is here MUCH better. But note this is only my first impression.


Maybe I get time to test your game, but it's really complex. Keep it up, and improve your game.


ps: Do you know LittleFighter2? This is a 2d game too, but with a better gfx and animations. Maybe you can have a look on it.


mfg beegee

The quick review is somewhat out of the way... I did not notice it until I went looking for it (after you mentioned it). Perhaps I just wasnt looking hard enough. It is helpful, but I think it should be more noticable. To do that, I would not use a semi-transparent backdrop for the UI, period. There are too many light colors in the background. That mixed with the white text makes things somewhat hard to read.

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Dont get me wrong Ulillillia, I like the look of the actual game, its just the UI I dont like. Everything else is really good!

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As for the errors, there are several around.

Edit: I could add another feature in the menus to suppress the unimportant error messages (like the jump error, stomp error, and the related - load errors will never be suppressed).

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As I said before, this is not a big deal, and should not be worried about...

Also, a side note... the F5 key still works. I can resize the resolution at will, regardless of what it sais in the main menu. Its just that the text dosent get any bigger...

Anyways, keep it up Ulillillia, It looks nice. Perhaps, for the UI, instead of making a solid backdrop, try and make it less transparent... That way, you could clearly see the text, and just bairly see the background buildings...

Good luck,
Raddaddy

why showcase 2 :
it's like lot of free or non free simple 3D games made with flash ?
simple really outdated graphics , simple levels ,
we can even found lot lot of 100 times better games on arcade emulators like
mario games etc ...

very strange to see it here ??

an the page in the site made me laught : special features : resolution :
640*480
and lot lot of very useless details about features we don't care.

we would pefer to see features like that :
- full physic engine included
- bump shader and lights applied to sprite via texture applied to a polygon
plane with transparency
- ragdoll incorpored on character
- some 3D environment objects even if 2D gameplay
etc ...

You have special forums on the net to make retro games why posting here ?