Nice game!
Reviews for "Dark Night Sky"
Satyre responds:
Thanks, i wish you luck with the unlocking of all medals :D
I really like the graphics. The game play is fun. I like the you give the user the option to choose how difficult they want the game to be. I found the tutorial to be too slow. Rather than having to wait for each bubble I think it'd be better if you set it up so that you could just click to continue to the next bubble. Or at least allow the user to exit the tutorial if it's too slow for them. I ended up refreshing the page so I could start the game. The game play is so straightforward that it wasn't a big deal at all.
The only reason this game isn't 5 stars is that the grammatical errors make it feel a bit on the unpolished side. If you got a writer/editor to proofread the text it would have been a 5.
Satyre responds:
Tutorial is skipable by key pressing now.
There is a home button on the right lower corner for the tutorial. I collected many reports that the tutorial is very slow. I will change it in the next update :)
Thanks for the really high rating and the suggestions.
There is so much better Akcion games on Newgrounds.com...but this game is not bad too!!
Satyre responds:
Thanks for reviewing. Considering this was my 2nd game ever made I think it is enjoyable in some ways :)
Slow loading, along with an annoying mochigames ad turned me off at first. Tutorial moves a bit slow and there are some grammar errors, but they were minor and didn't distract me from the game. Sound is just "eh." Protip: Make sure you level your weapons equally, a few waves in an you will be up to your ass in aliens.
All in all, it's an O.K game.
GREAT game man, congratulations! Your other games are also very cool, you are doing a great job here! Your idea here is simple yet very entertaining.
On the formal aspects: the sound is good, but I think you could improve it to match the pace of the game. For example, at the end of every level make it the hardest part, with more aliens showing up and put a faster, more intense sound. I think this could be cool, if you find suitable to your idea (since, you know, the aliens are trying to kill the dudes; they should get more and more violent as the night goes on and humans are able to defend themselves).
On the graphic part: very cool! Gives the game kind of a retro look but way better. I think that the terraforming proccess should show. You know, the base should get larger, you could make some changes in the scenario as the game goes on.
The one big problem you got here: balancing. The challenge is too big for the beginer, it makes people uninterested very fast (unless they are lucky enough to get the strategy at a first try). I consider myself a pretty good gamer and yet I had to start this about 15 times over to get a good grip on the strategy needed. The casual player usually doesn't have this kind of patience and time. You should begin the tutorial with some stratery guide lines, sinc people will certainly try to upgrade power first.
I hope you find this useful somehow. Congratulations again, this is a very solid work!
Satyre responds:
Hey, thanks for your detailed review.
Great ideas with the changing music and graphical changes of the mainbase. I thought at this too and already have 3 versions of the night music, but due to the big filesize i didn't want to use them. I already used a changing background as you may notice, but also due to the filesize I didn't want to put some new graphics inside the project. But if there will be a sequel or other project with changing environments, I'll definately use some more items.
The balancing seems to be a great problem. When producing the game, the most playtesters said that it is very easy :D and I didn't change the difficulty cause of this. Sadly it will took to much time to change the difficulty now, but I'll add a link to a video with 1 possible way to beat the game as a strategy guide in the next update.
Thanks again.