Tuesday, November 9, 2010

DiP 2

I know that this breaks my Hottest-only full review rule, but this was going to be a mini review. But when I was playing this, I realized, this is an extremely superb game! It fixes the flaws of the original game. Number one was repetitive and story-full. This one is extremely creative, but it also improves on the story. The atmosphere dark and spooky, as if it came right from a dream in Nightmare on Elm Street. Music, utilizing intimidating music with a lot of build up. There is, however, a lot of super buddy jumping, which no one is a fan of. However, the storyline itself is great. The mystery of the cyphered note keeps you going. It can get a little hard to follow at times, but the story isn't the important part. It's the core gameplay that counts. Weko45 did a good job with this. This is not Hottest, but definitely should be.

Pros and Cons
Pros
1. Story
2. Length (44 levels)
3. Music
4. Amount of repetition
5. Built onto the other one
Cons
1. Story a little hard to follow
Game made by weko45

Foxe's Dungeon

Foxe's Dungeon is a simple maze game. There are many sliders, locks and warp doors, like a good maze game should have. It has little special stuff though, all the music is in the library, and it breaks no coding records. How ever, there are some pretty cool things in it. When you unlock the door adjoining to the boss, (which is awesome) evil walking statues start coming from the wall. Metroid, anyone? Also, you control Sir Wolfe very differently. You use the arrow keys to move him and space to swing his sword. It feels like you're controlling a hover tank. There is a super cool power-up that you get before the boss. It allows you to throw ninja stars while standing still, necessary to completing the final boss. The final boss, is a bull demon, and after a few seconds, it will shoot four plasma balls. It uses a health bar, and you can't get close to it without dying, and that's why you get the power-up. This might be made into a series, for this wasn't so long. This game is definitely worth the time it takes to play.

Pros and Cons
Pros
1. Puzzling-ity
2. New Sir Wolfe
3. Boss
4. Music
Cons
1. Detail
Game made by Bluntfoot

Monday, November 8, 2010

Moon Child on Iphone

Moon Child on Iphone is an extremely simple platformer that yes, takes place in an Iphone. It features progressing levels with some simple jumping challenges and a few puzzles that don't tolerate impulse. Music is perfect, featuring turqmelon's Up in the Air. It's perfect for simple games that can be beaten in a snap. The atmosphere is nice and natural, but is too contained. About halfway through the game, you come upon a floating oasis, referencing Mathilde's game. It could be amazing and atmospheric, but no, it is made up of about three pieces. The Iphone concept is cool and all, but it contains the levels way too much. The levels can also be too simple, also. Mostly, it follows the "Same Level Over and Over With Different Enemies" formula. If I were in charge, this would not be Hottest.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Simplicity
2. Length (27 levels)
Cons
1. Simplicity
2. Difficulty Level
3. Repetition
Game made by omega6

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Minigame Mania 3

The great minigame series is back and better than ever! With 18 minigames, this trilogy-maker is by far the best! Stp09 makes the best minigames because they're hard. I make cruddy minigames because it's just, for example, driving a car over a taker bar. no bumps or anything. But with minigames like Maze, Run -n- Jump and Doomball Dragging, I hope your up for a challenge! I'm pretty sure that Stp09 introduced the DTM minigame. The DTM minigame is real simple. The DTM guy is standing there. He says "Don't touch me! I obviously can't defend myself!" Then of course, you touch him because he's fun to pester. I think Stp09 has the greatest minigames, therefore, this deserves Hottest.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Length (22 levels)
2. Difficulty level
3. Minigame ideas
4. Gameplay
Cons
1. No cons

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=200946
Game made by Stp09

Bio-Soldier

Bio-Soldier is the best game I have ever created. It's about a robot soldier who goes on an epic journey to win a war. The first world is the Awakening Facility. There you awake and go through training to make sure you're functioning properly. This game could get in Hottest without it. This game cost a fortune. I had 1083 pips, I had 7. Then I got my income! :D the reason that it cost me so much is probably (1 I got lots of coding help and (2 Barely any of my music was in the Library. The people who have beaten it is scarce because of the bad health bar on the second boss. The deflectors had the spiky side up. This is extremely worthy of Hottest, no question about it.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Fitting music
2. Length (49 levels)
3. Coding
4. Difficulty level
5. Gameplay
Cons
1. Boss layout

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=169149
Game made by Buddy3

Power Cell

Power Cell is a classic "Drag the Mine" game. There are many different mines though. There are: Mines, plasma mines, toxic mines, angel mines and blunt mines. The angel mines can't destroy power cells! :O What it CAN do is block the sights of robot security systems. Robot security systems are Armored Allies, but because mines are type: enemy, they shoot at them anyway. The white water tiles in the picture is cool. DragonX uses it as "battery acid." He hides a taker bar under the surface of the battery acid and says "don't touch the surface of the battery acid." I liked that part. I don't usually favor Mine games, but I like this one. If I were a mod, I'd pick it.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Fitting music
2. Length (13 levels)
3. Difficulty level
4. Layout
Cons
1. Lack of boss

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=196948
Game made by DragonX

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Santa's Sleigh

In this Christmas game you deliver presents to all the nice people of the world. Some people don't like Santa. They shoot lasers at him. Those laser-shooters are called scrooges. They don't get presents. The player piece is phenomenal! It's Interceptor but it's perimeter is a parallelogram. and it can shoot presents instead of lasers! I think the player got it in hottest. In the end there is a satellite view of Earth and a red small treasure to represent Santa. Then there's a nice little animation of Santa going to the North Pole. The player piece is great and that's what got it in Hottest.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Coding
2. Gameplay
3. Details
Cons
1. Length (13 levels)

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=187657
Game made by Buddy3

Solitude: Elemental

Solitude: Elemental is about the last person on Earth and her only hope is to find the Hidden Tribe alive. So, she searches the world to find them and fights two bosses, Fuocco and Vientos. There is a cliffhanger ending. Solitude ends up getting captured by some guy. Then another guy comes in and says "Let her go!" Then the first guy says then I guess I'll have to fight you... Then after that you have the option to either like the game or Email it to a friend. Anyway, there's three different player pieces. 1) Moonchild 2) Little Moonchild 3) Backwards Controlled Moonchild. This game is great and is proudly in Hottest.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Gameplay
2. Bosses
3. Coding
4. Length (25 levels)
5. Music
Cons
1. No cons

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=157351
Game made by atleast4

Explore

Explore is like HOUSE 1, 2 and 3. There are levels that are freeplay using warp doors and some secrets sprinkled around the game. Then the secrets lead to a secret room where you finish the game. The bad thing about this game is that the secrets really stand out. A dark patch of grass, a brown bar. The player piece is cool. It's just a Moonchild right? Wrong. It's a top-down Moonchild, controllable with <^> and WASD. RileyKin can make some great pieces. They're mostly "Changed Pieces," pieces that look like pieces in the library, but have a different code. This is pretty easy but should definitely be in hottest.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Pieces
2. Gameplay
3. Length (10 levels)
Cons
1. Difficulty level

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=187813

Game made by RileyKin

Monday, December 21, 2009

Insanity

This is a game like Brink. An insane test experiment goes through a maze of mind-boggling overcoded challenges. In fact, it's so mind-boggling that kalen has a disclaimer that says "DISCLAIMER: Kalen can not be held responsible for any brain cells damaged or lost during the playing of this game." Anyway, the boss, Reality Changer is amazing. As the title suggests, it changes reality. From appearing grenades to invisible spikes, this boss can cause permanent confusion. The coding won this game hottest and I agree with the picking mod's decision.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Coding
2. Gameplay
3. Difficulty level
4. Boss
Cons
1. Length (44 levels, but lots of that was animtion.)

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=174646
Game made by kalen

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Playcrafter faction

This is a simple block breaker game. Green blocks will break if you hit them real hard and red blocks will break if they hit the ground. Mac70 creates these structures made out of green and red blocks linked together and then he/she makes a pocket in the structure and puts the treasure piece in it. You have to destroy the structures to get to the treasure. This game, during the only green block levels, can get extremely boring. But when the red blocks start to show up, it starts to get very amusing. Playcrafter faction is a coding masterpiece that is so worthy of hottest!

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Coding
2. Gameplay
3. 1/2 Visually Amusing
4. Length (5 levels)
Cons
1. 1/2 Visually Boring

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=180478
Game made by Mac70

CraftSnipe

This is a first-person sniper game which are hard to come along because only skilled crafters can make them. In the first seven levels you shoot targets, the next eight levels you shoot UFOs and the tenth level is credits. You don't have to do anything at all because Dgames uses a timer piece that times the level. The player piece is great! It's pretty much altered reticule. The attractive thing about the piece is the black background around it. This game is great and it is proudly in hottest.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Coding
2. Music
3. Gameplay
Cons
1. Length (10 Levels)

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=181509

Game made by digitalgames

Monday, December 14, 2009

Blackheart's X-mas

The first thing you notice about Blackheart, your player is that he's a fish. The second thing you'll notice is that he's a jerk. Being a jerk, he hates Christmas and snow. It doesn't snow in Mexico. He wants to go there. He does some mean thing trying to get there, like leaving moonchildren to rot and bouncing on there heads. This game is moderately deserving of hottest.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Fish Player Piece
2. Artwork
3. Landscaping
Cons
1. Length (10 levels)

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=178937
Game made by clawball

Green

This is a game with no real plot line. The player piece is a piece that was never added to the game kit but it was brought to life by Weltall7 in his game "Forgotten Pieces." The re-spawn doesn't work but it is still a great piece. In the game you face many obstacles as you platform your way through the strange green land. Redlac31 uses a variety of pieces ranging from Breadfish's plasma pinwheels to Weltall7's Super Hero. There is solid platforming and challenging levels in this super platformer. There is tons o' tunes in this game. This game is great, challenging and should fully be in hottest.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Gameplay
2. Artwork
3. Music
4. Pieces
5. Length (13 levels)
6. Difficulty level
Cons
1. None

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=176278
Game made by Redlac31

Sunday, December 13, 2009

White Wonderland

In this game you are a moonchild wearing a Santa hat, finding his (his, her? *Shrugs*) way through the winter to get to a fireworks show. He faces the cold, home security, aggressive natives and much more! The snowflakes were much better than a bunch of floaters. They did the same thing as floater, only there perimeter was a little teardrop! The fireworks weren't awesome, but in some games it's just stratus or something. This game showed that Slaphappy123 is very capable of making great games! This should definitely be in hottest.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Gameplay
2. Artwork
3. Fireworks
4. Snowflakes
Cons
1. Lack of tile use
2. Length (11 levels)

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=167997
Game made by Slaphappy123

Mystery


In this game you are a detective trying to find the culprit of a murder. You go to suspects' houses and there you find various hints to overcome special challenges. The coding in this game was masterpiece. From boulders disappearing from pressing a key to appearing blocks, this game is a great example of the coding Yellow9 is capable of. In the end, the murderer is- I almost let you have that info. You'll have to find that out yourself. >:D What I like about this is its almost freeplay. There's one huge, I mean, enormously huge scrolling level, and because warp doors are used a lot in this game, you can pretty much go anywhere as long as you know how to. This was an extremely good game.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1. Gameplay
2. Coding
3. Artwork
4. Riding-out-into-the-sunset ending
5. Almost Freeplay
6. Mystery
7. Length (39 Levels)
8. Music
Cons
1. None

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=178467
Game made by Yellow9

Sorry!

Sorry about the lack of posts of lately. It was purely because I didn't want to. I was waiting for some more followers. But now Buddy2 is a follower also. I'll post for Mystery now though.

-Buddy3

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

*GAMEZ*

This game is a minigame game and the minigames are other games that kirbychris made. I.e. The Vigaranti. The thing about this game is that it uses the exact pieces used in those games. All of the levels don't only use a moonchild or something. A few levels I didn't know what the real game was but those levels were still awesomely fun!

Pros and Cons: Already?! Yes.
Pros
1.Gameplay
2.Artwork
3.Coding
4.Length (10 levels)
Cons
1.I can't find any

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=157630
Game made by kirbychris

Monday, November 9, 2009

Mini-Putt II

A golf game. There were a lot of different terrains, but Remi didn't take time to make levels where you actually use them. He only introduces them, and then one level using them. But really, its a pretty good game. Its hard to make side-view golf games! I don't know about hottest though. :3

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1.Maker-Skill
2.Property Use
Cons
1.Length (5 levels)
2.Gameplay (Remi could do better)

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=95701
Game made by Remenei

The Epic Climb

This is an acrobat game but acrobat is truly just for show and it can fit into smaller spaces, but this game would work with moonchild. As this gamm suggests it is awsome and large, or epic, and also as the name suggests, it is about thrusting your body in an upwardly fashion, a.k.a. "climbing." This uses a range of pieces from pieces from the library such as pinwheel to pieces only experienced coders can make, such as Shaunbanshee's bowl pieces. Definitely worth taking a look at.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
1.Gameplay
2.Artwork
3.Music
4.No friction walls, so you can't cheat
Cons
1.Length (5 levels)

http://www.playcrafter.com/flash/#gameID=155191
Game made by stp09