One Room, One Week Competition 2 - WINNERS ANNOUNCED

[DoorKnobHandle]

Here goes my review for the "One Room One Week 2" competition:

NOTE: If this is the wrong place to post such a review, then please let me know and I'll delete this post and put in somewhere else. I wasn't too sure about where to post but I couldn't find a place anywhere else.

If you find my review too picky or think I didn't review your game in a fair way, then go to hell (or PM me)...

ALONE IN THE NIGHT

NOTE: I didn't finish this game yet.

+ Nice character animations (for example when you try to use the telephone)...
+ Good GUI (left-click to interact/use and right-click to look)...

- Story seems worn-out (too "5-Days-A-Stranger" like - when I came into the house I actually first checked the door behind my back and was not surprised at all when I read: "I can't open it. It seems locked" or something like that)...
- The main character is not scared at all of the ghost. He talks to it normally at calm...
- The dialog options in the dialog with the ghost don't turn off properly...

ANNA

NOTE: I didn't finish this game yet.

+ I though I would have scripted a lot in AGS, but the three-dimensionality of this game made me wonder how it was done...
+ Good dialogues...

- I first thought it was in first-perspective throughout the dialogue...
- It seems a little clueless right after the start. There's not a lot you can do and you have no idea what you could do really...

ANOTHER

NOTE: I didn't come far enough to review it yet...

BAGHDAD

+ Funny dialogues and idea...

- No graphical effort (which may have been because of the game style)...

BALLONFACE

+ Good dialogues...
+ Interesting and creative game...

- Too less graphical effort (not even one shade is in the whole game)...
- Is this really a one room game? First you are in the ballon (which is one room to me) and then you are floating around in space...

DANCE TILL YOU DROP

NOTE: I didn't come far enough to review it yet...

GLADIATOR QUEST

NOTE: I didn't come far enough to review it yet...

IN LIMBO

- Too less graphical effort...
- No puzzle? I mean what you have to do in this game to finish it is not a puzzle at all...

I THINK WE ARE LOST

NOTE: I didn't finish this game yet.

+ Lip-syncing done in a good way...
+ Good dialogues...

- Ripped character sprites...

SAMMY SPERM

+ Lip-syncing done in a good way...
+ Creative game idea...

- No real puzzle, only a quiz which is very easy to win by trial and error...

SHEET: THE ART OF ART

NOTE: I didn't finish this game yet.

+ Creative game idea...

- The only cursor mode you have to use is talk to...
- Almost no real puzzle included...

THE FIND


NOTE: I didn't finish this game yet.

+ Good graphical effort...
+ Good dialogues...

- Seem stuck after having done literally everything...
- Graphical bugs when trying to go through the door in the spaceship...



Thanks for your time, after all there where some great games in there and I am really excited to hear who will win...

[pcj]

I don't think you reviewed all the games.

[AJA]

* Goes to hell

[Mr Flibble]

With reference to Baghdad and Balloonface, I think the graphics were fine, and suited the games perfectly.

[DoorKnobHandle]

I don't think you reviewed all the games.

The only one I left out is the broken one.
And the ones I didn't have the time to play yet.

With reference to Baghdad and Balloonface, I think the graphics were fine, and suited the games perfectly.

Well, that's just my opinion then, I guess. I couldn't help thinking about how great only one more shade would've looked like in Ballonface for example.

[pcj]

Broken?  Which one's broken?  They all work for me.

[DoorKnobHandle]

They updated the zip file. When I downloaded it, the game "Hiyah" was broken. I couldn't find the time yet to update my zip file. But no review is not necessarily a bad review.

[bluber]

Here are my personal ranking so far:

1. BALLONFACE (nice dialogs, no real interactions) - finished
2. BAGHDAD (fun, short) - finished
3. ALONE IN THE NIGHT (nice gfx, nice animations) - unfinished
4. DANCE TILL YOU DROP (nice gfx, nice animations) -  unfinished
5. THE FIND (nice gfx, nice story) - unfinished
6. ANOTHER (nice gfx, short) - finished
7. ANNA (everything  nice but not my style of game) - unfinished
8. SHEET: THE ART OF ART (nice idea) - unfinished
9. SAMMY SPERM (no puzzle, no puzzle, no puzzle) - finished
10. GLADIATOR QUEST (I am too stupid to play it) - unfinished
11. IN LIMBO (?) - finished
12. I THINK WE ARE LOST (are you from asia?, unfinished) - finished

[Al_Ninio]

How about we all just wait until voting starts?
Reviews might make people more inclined to vote for a certain game over another.
Please don't.

[bush_monkey]

ANNA

NOTE: I didn't finish this game yet.

+ I though I would have scripted a lot in AGS, but the three-dimensionality of this game made me wonder how it was done...
+ Good dialogues...

- I first thought it was in first-perspective throughout the dialogue...
- It seems a little clueless right after the start. There's not a lot you can do and you have no idea what you could do really...

that's what the game is about. You have to use your head....big time. Persevere and you will be pleasantly impressed. Some of the best puzzles I've seen in a long time. Anyway, back to playing the rest of the entries :p

[Kweepa]

They updated the zip file. When I downloaded it, the game "Hiyah" was broken. I couldn't find the time yet to update my zip file. But no review is not necessarily a bad review.

There's an individual download for that. See page 4 of the thread.

[bluber]

Can we have list who made which game?

[Fuzzpilz]

Not until voting is over.

[edmundito]

That's the whole point! You're not supposed to know who made the game...

[Kweepa]

I'd like walkthroughs - I've finished everything except:
Gladiator Quest - I'd like to see where it goes - took me a while to realise there was combat in the game!
Dance Til You Drop - I'm a bit stuck.

Spoiler

What is the safe combination? Something to do with 36 I gather...

[close]

[Traveler]

I'm stuck with the same problem in Dance till you drop...

Quite frankly I don't know how that could be figured out (I think I have a fairly close idea about the solution, but nothing worked so far) and that kind of ruined an excellent game for me...    I still want to finish it though, but I need a walkthrough.

Sidenote: how do you create a spoiler alert (the one that has to be selected to be readable)? I tried [div class="spoiler"] but it doesn't work.

[veryweirdguy]

Code: ags

[spoiler] SOMETHING! [/spoiler] 

will give you:

Spoiler

SOMETHING!

[close]

Will play the games this week. Vote soon after.

[Al_Ninio]

Dance til you drop code:

Spoiler

Look at the calendar, figure it out from there, or keep reading for the code:



7 12 46

[close]

[Babar]

Agreeus mundus! Didn't see that. Great effort from all contestants!

[Mr Flibble]

How about we all just wait until voting starts?
Reviews might make people more inclined to vote for a certain game over another.
Please don't.

Second.

In Balloonface, there was a bar at the bottom which displayed the current mouse mode.