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Review by gcsaba2 all reviews by gcsaba2

Nutella Factory is an ugly game. That being said, it\'s the game I enjoyed and played the most. This is one of those games where gameplay adds up for graphics, and I\'d recommend it for everyone to try it out.

At the start you\'re some dude in a nutella factory. You need to get into the nutella, put some of it into your bucket, and go back to feed the troll. When you are inside the nutella, you lose air. When you\'re air is gone, you lose energy. When you\'re energy is gone, you die. But that\'s not all. You also lose energy by time. To recover energy, you need to eat some nutella yourself. But to eat, you must get into the nutella, which means losing air. To cut it short, it\'s a complex game. I suggest reading the readme file where it\'s all explained.

The fun part of the game, for me at least, was trying to balance it all out. Just as everything starts going well, the nutella wave covers the whole map and I lose air no matter what. I start panicking, I don\'t know what to do. Should I eat some nutella to keep my energy up, or should I try and find some spot on the map that is free of nutella. This can be very addictive.

Finally, to add some criticism. The graphics is not very good. There are no sounds. The readme file is too long. Other than that, it\'s a great game! I give maximum score for all categories (except artistical).

Scores: Overall 5 Artistical 3 Technical 5 Genre 5

Review by gcsaba2 all reviews by gcsaba2

Potted the Hairy is a side-scrolled game similar to Super Mario. You are a wizard and you need to kill some trolls. The trolls are little green men that move from one point to another, and you can shoot at them. To add some complexity to the game, your bullets won?t go to the end of the screen, but only about two inches, which means you need to have the trolls get close to you.

The idea is there, but I think the game is not finished. The author could have at least added a few more levels. This way the game is just too easy: I finished the map in about a minute, and then I unlocked the multiplayer mode, and finished that one again in less than a minute, playing the same map. The author admits it himself that the game is easy, and I would have given him higher score if only he had added 2-3 more levels, it would have made a lot of difference for me. And some basic sounds would be nice too, like when the wizard shoots.

Other than that, the game fulfills all the rules. The wizard?s bullets move in a sine wave-like path, the trolls are there, and the game is a parody of Harry Potter (though I had to read the readme file to find this out, cause I never read or watched Harry Potter ;) ). Considering how Thanatos is still in high school though (and I knew a lot less when I was his age), I?m giving him a high score for the Technical level.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 2 Technical 4 Genre 4

Review by gcsaba2 all reviews by gcsaba2

Space Pixels by Krax is a parody of Space Invaders. But I wouldn\'t call it a parody, since it\'s basically the same as the original game, with some added elements of a troll\'s shop where you can upgrade your weapons or buy lives. Just like in the original game, you are a space ship and you shoot at incoming monsters, which also know how to fire back sometimes.

This is one of the games I would call complete. I hadn\'t found any bugs and the game didn\'t crash. It had sounds, which mean a lot for a game. What thrilled me was that the game starts with a robotic voice saying \'space pixels\'. This is a very easy thing to implement; yet it adds a special flavor to the game right at its start. As you progress through the game, you gather more money, you buy better weapons from the troll, and you also start unlocking hidden stuff, which is actually background music. There are 13 background melodies, and this makes the game somewhat more enjoyable, cause as you progress farther you can listen to different stuff, not the same melody over and over.

This review may be short, but I really have nothing more to add. The game is complete, and it can be fun playing in 5 minute breaks during work or study.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 4 Technical 4 Genre 2

Review by gcsaba2 all reviews by gcsaba2

Tin Party by CGamesPlay is a parody of Mario Party, a game I have never played or it was on Commodore 64 so I forgot about it. You have 4 contestants, each starting at position 0, each player rolls the dice and moves as much positions as the dice game him, 10 being the maximum. An interesting element of the game is that they do not race on some straight path, but rather a sine wave.

That being the description of the game, I think it is not completely finished. The menu presents you with the options of playing a multiplayer game (you vs. 3 computers for example), but you can also play \"1 on 1\" and \"Single player\". Well, these last two options don\'t work, I guess either the author did not have the time to implement them or he forgot to throw them out of the finishing design. Anyway, let\'s start with the \"multiplayer game\". You need to select 1 character out of 4 (with the troll being the 5th, but you need to unlock him by playing 12 times). Then you select the opponents, and finally a map. The only map given is a sine wave. This is fine. Unfortunately, I can chose not to select the since wave by pressing the \"down\" key and when I press \"space\" the game will crash. OK, so I finally got to play the game, and I\'m Player 4. The first 3 computer players throw the dice, they move away from me, then I throw the dice, and I get 2. I move only 2 places, which puts me in the last position. The computer players throw again, they move away, I throw again, and I get 3. OK, I may be bitter for always ending up last, but is there a way to predict how the dice will fall? I tried observing the numbers; I don\'t see any pattern there. It doesn\'t matter when I press space to stop the dice, cause it won\'t affect the final outcome. In the end, my game broke down to watching my opponents moving 9 or 10 spaces, then I move 2-3 and again the agony starts.
In short, this may be a good game, but it\'s just not the game for me. It irritated me cause I always kept losing :)

The game elements are there. I didn\'t play 12 times to unlock the troll, but I trust the author that this will happen. The graphics are not at a very high level, the background is black-white, and there aren\'t any sounds. Sounds are very important in a game. Never forget the sounds!

Scores: Overall 2 Artistical 1 Technical 2 Genre 2

Review by gcsaba2 all reviews by gcsaba2

Violencing is a game where you are a creepy looking dude on skis and you kill random people and monsters (which I suspect are the trolls) \"for no reason\". The skis are a bit hard to control, so you often fall into the abyss, but once you manage to control them the game starts to be more fun.

With that being said, I never finished level 1, so I can\'t say if there\'s a level 2. I tried for half hour to learn how to control the skis, and when I finally reached the other end of the map, the game didn\'t end (probably cause some trolls were left alive), and then I again fell into the abyss. The game can be addictive for some time I guess, I know I tried hard to kill all the trolls, but in the end I failed each time.

The bad side is the graphics and the sounds. There are only 3 colors in the game (as it\'s pointed out at game start :) ), and there are no sounds. Some horrible screams of agony would have added some flavor. I also did not see the sine waves. Where are the sine waves?

Finally, my girlfriend liked the game, so I\'ll add +1 for the overall score.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 1 Technical 4 Genre 3

Review by gcsaba2 all reviews by gcsaba2

CorruptionWare is about a troll with a club beating up peasants. You move from hill to hill and try to beat up as much peasants as you can. At each hilltop there is a flag where you stop, and you have to play a minigame. The minigames are quite fun to play, so you should definitively check this game out.

Kaitlyn obviously knows how to combine various game elements to make a game enjoyeable. The background music is fun, it doesn\'t get boring as you play for some time. Game speed is perfect too, cause something is happening all the time, and in the short pauses you can\'t wait to see what\'ll happen next. The graphics is nicely done, a few effects here and there add nice flavor. The terrain represents the hillside, you are a troll, and there are unlockable items plus minigames. This is definitively one of the top five games of this competition.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 3 Technical 4 Genre 3