How did I miss this. Why. This kinda makes me sad.

Well, I didn't really expect it to be praised. Look at the game's short description!

A not-even-close-to-being-good entry into the "Golden Age of Game Making" event!

Though, one could read that as a tongue-in-cheek thing, and given that "comedy" is a tag for the game...

*Edit: I worry too much, though.

Darigaaz, my entry is actually good?

Sorry about the guard that set windows to be transparent, though. I thought I got rid of all instances of that happening!

I also noticed how stupid-easy getting that one chest in the last dungeon, was, but, meh.

*Edit: Are you sure it was the guard by the inn? I don't get a transparent window there. Unless I fixed it, and forgot to upload it?

author=pianotm
did it over and over again until it worked

Alright, that's good then!

Oh, and, Liberty, are we allowed to fix/update games now in accordance to feedback, or is the cliche-counting not done yet?

author=pianotm
I can't get Frog to work.

Ah, did you get it working yet? I'm planning on pre-extracting the game files to see if that helps anyone. What exactly is the problem (is the game not opening for you, is it freezing, is it crashing, is the fullscreen buggy, etc)?

Oh, I didn't have to kill many monsters - selling off the potions netted me enough money for almost everything, and I'd kitted myself out with the best.

You might instead make that skill only in battle - that way you couldn't cheese it outside of battle to refill all your skills up before the next one (like I did). >.<)b

Yeah, but ideally as the dev you'd want them to get the bad ending first so that they would be like "Wait... that was a bad ending. Am I supposed to lose?!" and retry, but I rather enjoyed the game and it was cute.

(Also you might want to throw a cue in there for the bones quest so that you have an idea that you need to talk to the slime about them. I talked to it a few times and never saw an inkling about the bones. Of course this was before I got bones but still, I figured it was a weird way to introduce battles to the player or something. ^.^; )


Finally, the last game - Might and Magic Tsuk.

Really quite balanced and pretty fun to play. I liked the characters and their builds were interesting and fun to use. The skills were all quite useful, too, which can be hard to make when it comes to any kind of RPG. It probably helped that there were eight total for each character.

I wasn't sure if you were supposed to be able to farm chests or not, but figured it was a feature since they were useful for getting your money up enough to purchase weapons and armour. Indeed, I just ran between two rooms and kept grabbing the chests - the mimics were enough to level me up and a single enemy is easier (and faster) dealt with than two or three.

It was short, sweet and simple and I rather liked that. I can't say I know where the characters are from or what certain lines are alluding to - I did feel a bit 'in the dark' and as though I was missing half the story - but over all it was a well-rounded game. Ya did good!


I'm glad to say that you all did really well. The games are playable (I had no crashing issues and I downloaded them all as soon as the games were over - I didn't need to change any settings, but then I have all the RTPs out there, so I wasn't likely to be missing any files or anything) and while some had issues, at least half of them were really well done. Congrats guys!

As for my personal favourite, well, it'd be a toss up between An Earthly Inheritance, Might and Magic Tsuk and Last Quest. Kudos to Loop's Quest too. Honestly, I think they all have merit and you all did a great job.

I think I might do some more detailed reviews for them, even.

author=Liberty
And that's Journey's End out the way.

While the writing left a lot to be desired (the grammar, punctuation and spelling was pretty bad), the content was decent. I really liked the mapping for the most part - though some maps were a bit on the big side - and the puzzles were interesting and easy enough to figure out.

Battles were actually a decent challenge, but the characters' skills were a bit much - too many skills can be pretty bland, especially when you can just spam one for every monster. For so many skills it would have been nice if there'd been a use to them - like having some be stronger against certain enemies than others.

That said, it was a pretty decent, if sparse game. Very short. I do have to say that while I would have liked the writing to be more polished, the dialogue of the characters was quite good and I liked that they played up the cliches quite well.

I'd like to see more of this with a bit of polish towards the writing and more thought put into the skillsets. I think it could be a real gem.

Thanks for the feedback Liberty. Yeah, spelling and grammar is something I've never been very good at. Though if you think that Journey's End is bad, you should see some of my earlier stuff.

Not sure how to improve the skill sets, but then again I've got some more areas coming. I'm sure I'll be able to add some elemental affinities and stuff to the enemies there to make it more interesting. Other than that, who knows.

Edit: Actually I'm amazed you found the battles to be well balanced, since I kind of threw them together with random monsters with almost no testing. (With the exception of the dragon boss). Good to here it though.

And add Last Quest IV to the completed list.

The battles in this are actually pretty well balanced. The skillsets for the heroes are pretty well built and each skill has it's uses. There was a cheese skill, though - the MP healing one. Outside of battle you just fill up mage girl with MP using the skill, restore everyone else's MP then restore her own again. Made it so that you didn't have to use Mana Leaves except in battle. That might be by design, though, since Mana Leaves only fill up 20 MP (about the same amount as the skill).

Story-wise I enjoyed it. It was simple but good for what it was with a few tongue-in-cheek parts. I quite liked it all up. The only real issues I can pick on is that dungeons seemed really short, and the ending felt cheap (though I did smirk at it).

There was a bug that I found - talking to Mayor Dad again will net you another five potions. Being the cheap person that I am, I filled up on free potions, then sold them off so I wouldn't have to grind for money. Because I could. ;p

Overall, I thought it was a pretty good little game. Kudos!

author=Liberty
Okay, so I finished Destiny Quest.

I can appreciate that it's hard for a new dev to make a game in a week, and condensing the storyline down to bite-sized scenes was a good idea, but there were a lot of issues with the game's polish including unfinished maps, teleports that sent you to the wrong places, being able to buy the top-tier Ultimate items (gifted in a scene) at the start of the game, spelling mistakes and text cut-offs, missing sprites, too-easy battles and overly-large maps.

That's not the say the story wasn't interesting - it had promise - but a lot of these issues caused the game to be hard to take seriously in any way. The biggest issue I had were the battles, honestly. I literally Auto-battled my way through the last boss - both forms - and didn't die once in the whole game.

That wasn't the issue, though - I started the game on level 50 (top level) but still got EXP for each battle (bar one). This would make you think that the dev made a mistake with the starting levels, however the length of the battles would have been painful if you weren't on level 50. Extremely so as they were very long even on top level.

Still, it is a complete game made in a week, and while it has a lot of issues, there's something to be said for making something complete over that period of time. Here's hoping Rose_Guardian learned a lot from the experience and I'd like to see how it looks after some major polish has been applied.

Thank you Liberty. Sorry for the late reply. My friend, and I made the characters start at level 50, because we didn't have a whole lot of time, and my friend wanted to avoid too much balancing. I really hope to remake this game one day. I wasn't too happy with it myself since it was made in a week. But thank you. I am very glad you tried it, and pointed out mistakes I can avoid in the future. :)