bopstik's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Designer]

Love the vibe and the artstyle. Concept is an interesting one with potential. Was just hard to work out exactly how things worked at first. UI and clarity would probably be the most pressing things if you were to continue work on this.

Puddle-11 responds:

ty for the feedback,
any recommendations on the tutorial?
i agree its pretty lackluster and leaves quite a bit unexplained, but i want to avoid info/text dumping

[Chilling Through Life]

22 lives with 2 pets.
It's so cool how such a simple restriction like only going right switches things up. Chill indeed. Very peaceful vibes, elevated by the artstyle and music, and broken only by the frustrating need to move backward to touch that one little dude that you barely missed cause it started walking left at just the wrong time. All good though. Patience required. Well made.

CGQQL responds:

Thanks for playing and thanks again for the kind words.

[Snowy Slopes]

Got 1.5k before I realized you could shoot stuff. lol
A solid little challenge. Reminded me of that one really old ski game on PC where the bear randomly eats you. Nice job.

ScriptedWave responds:

Thank You! :D

[Polly The Frog 3: Billy Bullfrog's Decree]

Adorable game. Somehow, it made me think of a weird amalgamation Frogger, Croc and obscure cartoon tie-in games from my childhood. Very doable, solid mechanics, lovely style.

Brad-Games responds:

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

[Anarchy Staying]

Can tell a fair bit of effort went into this, just from the opening. It has a lot going for it. The plot intrigues.
Would recommend keeping the important controls listed somewhere visible as a reminder. And letting the player sprite have a little more animation, like blinking or rolling sometimes; would be nice. Not sure how big the game is usually supposed to be, but in the newgrounds window the text was a bit small and hard to read.
Visuals are charming, and the little effects are quite nice. Overall, it's got heart. Hope you continue on it.

neriqward responds:

Thanks you!

[In Bloom]

Not sure if it's being addressed, but I'm getting a "Maximum call stack size exceeded" error after the title screen pops up, which I think is preventing me from selecting any of the options. I can still select the top left dropdown menu that lists "import/export saves" etc. but that's about it. Is it just me, or anyone else get this issue?

vhsdreamland responds:

EDIT: it should be working now!!

If you're on Chrome this will happen!! this is an issue with Ren'Py web rather than the game itself.

[Amazing Monk]

Fairly challenging. Didn't make it too high up beyond 130m. Game's real smooth and visually appealing though, and have to give props to the use of the dynamic music transitions. Appreciate that in any game I play.

Relieable responds:

Thank you for your kind words! We really appreciate your feedback and our sound designer is indeed amazing ;)