CrankyRabbit's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Happy Corp. [Alpha] [Updated 5/14/2024]]

A nice little breakout game. Only real beef I have right now is that the explosion effects send the framerate plummeting to what feels like 0.2fps on Firefox 123.0.1 (64-bit).

saltandpixel responds:

Yeah, lol - It's a buggy power up I need to remove. I may update tonight.

[SlushPuppies]

This unfortunately only loads to a black screen when running Firefox 47.0 on Windows 10. Going to try v48.0 since it's being shoved in my face right now.

SiredSpace responds:

Let me know how it runs on v48! I'll look into the v47 issues :\

[ EDIT 8-14: Fixed, thanks for the feedback! ]

[Scramble]

Not a bad recreation of the arcade Skramble... but not good either. It would have been nice if the keys had mappings for a QWERTY keyboard (ie. cursor keys to move, Z shoot, X bomb, like that.) What it really needs is better music instead of a background throb.

paulpaterson responds:

Thanks for the comments and feedback.

Check out the latest update if you have a change. There is music, cursor keys movement, and a completely new UI.

[Mundane Game]

It looks like the guy's legit, but he's forgotten to unlock the project, AND also to provide a link to it on his site. I'm sending him an email about this.

rustinhaler responds:

I'm having real problems making a version of this game that works on newgrounds. Are there any stencyl users who can tell me the EXACT phrase I have to type into the "site lock" box so it works on yogyog.org and newgrounds.com? I've tried "http://yogyog.org, http://www.newgrounds.com" and "yogyog.org, newgrounds.com" and even "newgrounds.com" but it's still not working! I don't want to releace this game unlocked.

SORTED!! Turns out newgrounds stores games on ungrounded.net .

[The Day (Gregory Weir)]

Goals of Innocence and Experience

This game is truly unsettling; you can either stay 'innocent', playing your little war games, or lose your innocence by discovering the shattering truth about your home.

Actually, there's two questions: Are they refugees from a devastating war, or some other disaster? And, the destroyed laser drone outside the base - attacker or defender?

Another point is docked due to the fact the annoying ad box merely gets shunted to the back of the stage and doesn't go away - I can still see it when roaming inside the bunker and when reading the developer notes.

Otherwise another splendid brain-poker from Mr Weir.

GregoryWeir responds:

That's what I get for changing something last-minute and not testing enough. The ad should be fixed as soon as the new version gets approved.

[bubble in my garden]

Collision detection very poor

No sound is guaranteed a low score on here by the way :)

Seriously, I was not happy about the very loose collision detection -- my bubble was touched several times by the spiky things but nothing happened. Then I deliberately steered into one and my 3 lives dropped to -1.

As I write this, my bubble has drifted right clear off the stage. Not good at all.

SO: sound, collision, and game logic need work.

pinoygamegeek responds:

Thanks! Now i know What i should improve more.

[Cock Rocket Adventures]

Now try making an actual game

On loading, I found myself confronted with a large, screen-filling phallus; presumably this is the "cock rocket". Pressing the arrow keys moved this object very slowly around - and off - the screen.

To add injury to insult, there is inappropriate music (The Police? Why?) as well as that old chestnut, the strobing background.

My recommendation is to try expanding this into a real game; maybe something like Joust, but with smaller rockets, more suitable music and sound effects, menus, a scoreboard, and better graphics.

Sidorio responds:

DON'T STAND
DON'T STAND SO
DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME