{"author_name":"TFernando","cat":"LD #17 - Islands - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"April 27, 2010 10:46 pm","epoch":1272426360,"text":"Wow, good job! I haven’t even started rating the games yet. Just played a few interesting looking ones.
\n I guess you didn’t leave comments for many games. Comments are always nice!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 27, 2010 11:16 pm","epoch":1272428160,"text":"You’re right, of course. But generally, I don’t like to comment if someone else has already said what I was going to say. That goes for games, blog posts, etc..","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 27, 2010 11:36 pm","epoch":1272429360,"text":"Awesome job, and thanks for the tips! I always intend to name my zip something sensible – ideally with my name and the game name in there, but this time I just did turtleferry.zip. You’re a credit to the community, thanks so much for supporting everyone!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"snowyowl","time":"April 28, 2010 12:12 am","epoch":1272431520,"text":"I think I’m going to comment on this even though Dock just said everything I wanted to say \ud83d\ude09
\n Somebody get this man a trophy!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"smn","time":"April 28, 2010 7:15 am","epoch":1272456900,"text":"My game seems to have fallen into the no-preloader-problem category, then \ud83d\ude00","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 28, 2010 7:29 am","epoch":1272457740,"text":"Quote – “XNA guys- I know XNA has dependencies, so it makes sense to use installers. Please stop having those installers put stuff on my desktop and in my start menu. It\u2019s not -difficult- to remove them, it\u2019s just annoying. And I know you don\u2019t HAVE to, because not all the XNA entries did.”","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 28, 2010 11:43 am","epoch":1272472980,"text":"I also refuse to install games. Time has nothing to do with it. The ease of use of your installer also has nothing to do with it. Installers have gotten a bad reputation in my eyes and that’s why I won’t use them. Would it be so difficult for you to include the game along with your installer? No it wouldn’t, so why not give us both options?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 28, 2010 11:44 am","epoch":1272473040,"text":"Codexus has pretty much stated my position.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Osgeld","time":"April 28, 2010 4:15 pm","epoch":1272489300,"text":"course if everyone has an installer thats only 3 and a half hours just for installing and uninstalling (for this compo)","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1272425220,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"70603","p_author":"TFernando","p_authorkey":"1164","p_urlkey":"106424","p_title":"I came here to rate games and chew bubblegum","p_cat":"LD #17 - Islands - 2010","p_event":"LD17","p_time":"1272425220","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"9","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1164","us_name":"TFernando","us_username":"tfernando","event_start":"1271980800","event_key":"3","event_name":"LD17"},"text":"

And I’m all out of games. Anyone got bubblegum? \":)\"<\/p>\n

So, since the compo ended I played and rated 172 games. Basically I started with the web games, then went through people I recognized from one or another site… then I started in on my assigned games, and when I finished those I just kinda kept rating…<\/p>\n

If I didn’t rate your game it was because:<\/p>\n

  • Your game crashed before the title screen, or in the first few seconds after the title screen<\/li>\n
  • Your game caused a Blue Screen of Death.<\/li>\n
  • Your entry didn’t provide a web version or windows binary when I checked.<\/li>\n
  • Your installer failed (XNA only, though most were fine)<\/li>\n
  • You required hardware I don’t own. (eg, a gamepad)<\/li>\n
  • Your download link was broken\/shut down (I checked each of these more than once, sorry I missed you)<\/li>\n

    Some stuff I want to say:<\/p>\n

  • Don’t play 172 games in 2.5 days<\/strong>. They start to blend together, and there are some which I probably did not give the time they needed in order to be assessed. (Not -YOURS- dear reader, yours was unique and captivated me ;))<\/li>\n
  • XNA guys<\/strong>– I know XNA has dependencies, so it makes sense to use installers. Please stop having those installers put stuff on my desktop and in my start menu. It’s not -difficult- to remove them, it’s just annoying. And I know you don’t HAVE to, because not all the XNA entries did.<\/li>\n
  • Flash<\/strong>– You need to have at least a basic preloader. I might think your page just isn’t loading.<\/li>\n
  • Flash<\/strong>– Don’t link directly to your swf. Make a dummy html page, and use the embed tag. Or have the game hosted on swfcabin or similar. If you link direct to the swf, there are occasionally scaling issues.<\/li>\n
  • Flash<\/strong>– Don’t distribute your swf and call it a windows binary. Or if you do, include an html page that embeds it. Not everybody has a debug\/standalone player.<\/li>\n
  • Everybody<\/strong>– It’s probably not a great idea to call your .zip archive LD17.zip…<\/li>\n
  • Everybody<\/strong>– Please DO indicate on your title screen how to get to the main menu. And if you include a line that says ‘Press the Any-Key to continue’, please make sure the left arrow works. \":)\"<\/li>\n

    (I pick on Flash, because I do Flash.)<\/p>\n

    I thought the over all quality of the submissions was really high! I enjoyed making my game, I enjoyed playing all yours! I’m looking forward to doing this again in August!<\/p>\n

    -TF<\/p>","time":"April 27th, 2010 10:27 pm","title":"I came here to rate games and chew bubblegum"}