So this weekend I've been making a game for Ludum Dare 28. The theme for the game had to be 'You only get one' so I'm making a game called "You only get one date" which is a date simulator, and as soon as you pick the wrong thing to say to your date, you cannot go back.

I'll upload that in a few hours depending onhow much I can get done today, I hopefully  can get all of it done since it has to be submitted today as well.

So, seeing as I've been inactive for a while, I figured I should upload something.

But I'm wondering, should I make Static-Man Dressup 2 or Windows Christmas Errors, which will be a remixed version of Windows Vista Errors with a few jokes and Christmas references.

Bear in mind though, the error message generator I used for Windows Vista Errors isn't working right now, so I'd have to make my errors another way.

P.S: This new blogging system is fancy.

-Madjasper1

Today is halloween and Ijust found the perfect game for all of you Horror Adventure lovers out there.

The link to it is here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krillbite/among-the-sleep

On another note here is this weeks videos for you to check out:

MadWasp01 Reviews: The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff

MadWasp01 plays: Hotel Giant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH4NKSG0tiA

So, recently I found my old Black Circle Dude Ep2 .fla file that I made on Flash 8, and I started to work on it a bit, but then I realized that it wasn't good enough so I'm going to redo it.

Now I know what you are thinking, you are thinking "Who dafuq is Blak Sircle D00D????/////?" and I have 2 responses to that.

1. You need to work on your grammar and spelling.
2. Black Circle Dude was my debut into Newgrounds - A.K.A: my first real animation, the link to it is here, but be warned, it is not very good in quality, since it was my first animation.

Also you may be thinking, "But what about your other projects like Hospital Simulator, the breakout game and Multichoice?"

I have another 2 responses.

1. Your grammar and spelling has improved, well done.
2. Well, the Breakout game was going to come first, then I was going to focus on my other projects, but I've hit a dead end with the programming for the breakout game, I've made a level that you can play, I just need to make a way to get it to go to another frame after you've completed the level, if I can fix that I will get on with it, until then I'm stopping the project.

But anyway, BCD2 (Black Circle Dude Ep2) is now in the making, I don't know when it will be done, but I want it to be fairly big, so it may take a while.

So look out for that, I may have a trailer made for it soon, or maybe not.

Oh also I have another review on Metacritic, so go check that out here.

Seriously, I was trying to win some items in a mini game and the word I had to spell was Spunk.

What were Popcap thinking?

For those who liked my reviews on such games as Happy Wheels, The Stick Adventure and Madness: Will it slice? I have made an account on Metacritic.com for console games, I have 2 reviews on there so far , so check it out if you have some spare time.

Link: http://www.metacritic.com/user/MadWasp01

Hello guys, if you have been keeping track of me recently you would know I've been writing reviews on flash games on my news posts. You are probably wondering why I don't just post those reviews to the games themselves, I don't know why either but what I do know is I will critique any game that I think needs to be noticed, for how good or bad it is.

Speaking of games, I'm making my own Breakout game, because I reviewed some other guy's Breakout game and now I want to make my own, I've learned the code and I've made the first of 20 levels.

So yeah, look out for that.

That's all!

Oh yeah, Happy Madness Day!

Game Title: The Stick Adventure
Game Link: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/591512

Credits:
Artist:
Jeffyx

The Review:

A short game today, meaning a short review...or...not.

Stickman games are lots of fun if they are done well, games like Experiment 51, Stickman Sam and Xiao Xiao 9 were all executed really well, but if you want a point-and-click adventure/action stickman game, then you could always ask me to make you one, they aren't hard to make, or you could also play The Stick Adventure, which was released last year.

Before I review lets go back in time a bit. On July the 23rd of 2011 Jeffyx released his first game, which was actually just one of those 'Choose the animation' games, and because of it's unoriginality with the jokes and genre, it wasn't very well received at first, but many people still praised it because it was his first flash and it was actually pretty good.
Over the following months Jeffyx continued making stick games that were all point-and-click, the best one he made that year was titled: Stick Wrestling which was surprisingly original. Yeah it still was a point-and-click game but it was more of a 'choose who attacks, then choose the next attacker until you unlock all the combo's' game.

Then 2012 came along and he made a game called The Stick Adventure, his best submission to date, and at this moment it has 62,293 Views and he won Daily 5th with it.

But now to reviewing the game, the game starts off with the Endless Handbag Loop which is a classic looped song, and it has the Stick Adventure for a title with play and instruction buttons, also in the lower left their is a button that should supposedly show you more stuff from Jeffyx, but this button doesn't work for some reason.

Clicking play with show you a cutscene of a blue-headed stickman sleeping on the ground, you can skip this by clicking the Skip button on the top-right. He then wakes up and he says "Where am I.............?". Yes there are a lot of full stops for some reason.
The graphics are nice to say the least, the background shows a potential sunrise, and the grass is dark to show this.
After clicking the Click to Continue button you are then given the option to either go left or right, you are given buttons to do so, I won't give everything away from here but what you a supposed to do is go one way to get a gun, then go the other way to use the gun on a 3-man army of stickfigures. If you die their are hints and the occasional pun.

There is a shooting bit, where the 3-man army mentioned before come in, before you can do this bit you need the gun I mentioned before as well. The shooting is actually quite hard to do because you have to do headshots and you don't have much time before the enemies shoot you, so this seems to be the only challenging thing about the game. Their is even a guy who can dodge your bullets.

But after you complete it you can then enter the next room which isn't challenging at all, some stickman with a riot shield comes along to stop you climbing up a ladder. However, magic grey arrows point to where you are supposed to shoot in order to kill him. This bit could be more challenging like for example, the guy could run up to you and smack you to death with his riot shield and you only have a short amount of time kill him.

The last bit is the easiest bit of the game, you click on a bad guy who has his back turned to you to kill him, their is a box next to him, but if you put your mouse over it text appears above your character's head saying "I should probably take him out first", I do wish you could click on the box to show like an animation of your character getting killed, but no such luck.

After you kill this bad guy you then click the box to get a parachute and you escape the building only to land where you started again and this is where I start end the review.

Basically this game has a bit of extra potential, but doesn't quite reach it, and I don't know why you end where you started. This should hopefully be answered in a sequel, but it's been a year and we haven't seen anything relating to this game.

So , is this game good or not? Well yes it is fun to play occasionally even if you played it seventy million times, but let's be honest here, their isn't much to see, their are not a lot of choices and the their is not plot as far as I can tell, but it is still enjoyable, and I do find myself coming back to it to shoot the heads off of stickmen.

Ratings:

Graphics: 4/5
Interactivity: 3/5
Sound: 3/5
Plot: 1/5
Fun: 4/5

Overall: 15/25

Recommendation Rate: Recommended

Game Title: Happy Wheels
Game Link: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547504
Full Game Link: http://www.totaljerkface.com/happy_wheels.php

Credits:
Programming:
Totaljerkface

The Review:
*sigh* This game has far too much attention.

Okay, let's review this properly, the game starts off with some cheesy guitar riffs before a disabled fat lady with a spork or an angry homeless man with bandages in a wheelchair moves onto the screen punching or stabbing the Happy Wheels Logo, I think the Happy Wheels logo should be stabbing them instead although it doesn't make much difference because everyone in this game dies at some point.
You can either play a level or make you own with the level editor, which is the only reason this game exists anyway.
Clicking Play Game will take you to the featured level screen, which as quite a few featured levels with more being added every few months. These levels are probably the only good levels to play on with the exception of Rope Swing.
In the top right of the featured levels page is the "user level browser" to be honest I don't know why that doesn't have any capital letters on it, it drives me crazy.
Anyway these "user levels" are mostly crap and repeated, in fact, here is a list on all types of Happy Wheels levels that I have seen and played.

-Normal (Unique name and level)
-Impossible level (Not impossible)
-Impossible level (Actually impossible)
-1% possible or 99% impossible(Usually nearly impossible)
-Don't move (literally don't do anything -in my opinion this takes away gameplay-)
-Survive the fall (move at the right speed and angle to fall into a pit filled with spikes and reach the end)
-Ball throw (Usually with the Segway guy, reach and throw balls into pits to apparently earn points even though you don't)
-Sword throw (The same as the Ball throw but with swords that you throw at people)
-Obstacle Course (Usually a very badly made obstacle course that requires no skill at all)
-Quiz (Ride your character into the correct hole to answer quiz-like questions that are usually wrong)
-Neon (any of the above but with supposedly added neon glows that are usually badly made)

So as you can tell, the community for Happy Wheels are 7-year olds, and while I don't mind this appealing to a certain audience, when I played this game, I felt no sense of seriousness or progression.
I know what you are about to say, "Madjasper, the game isn't meant to be serious, it is supposed to be funny and cool" but to you I say "Shut up, the game has high amounts of blood, what isn't serious about that? If you play this game you a killing animated characters either by stabbing them, dislocating them or blowing them up, which is VERY SERIOUS, DEATH IS A SERIOUS SUBJECT AND SHOULD BE CONSIDERED CAREFULLY UNLESS YOU KILLING A COMPLETE DRUG ADDICT OR PSYCHOPATH"
Sorry about that, now onto the progression, you play a level, you complete it, that is it, you don't get anything else other than a time, then you can rate the level from 0 to 5 stars IF you have an account with Totaljerkface.com, unlike Newgrounds people who aren't logged in cannot vote, which I feel is a form of discrimination.
You probably want me to talk about the characters, so I will, the characters you can currently play as are:

-Wheelchair guy (A homeless disabled man with a booster on a wheelchair)
-Segway Guy (A Man in a business on a segway that jumps)
-Irresponsible Dad (A man on a bike with a child sat behind him who obviously has been abused)
-Effective Shopper (A fat women with a jumping motorized scooter, she has groceries with her)
-Moped Couple (A man an women on a Moped with a booster)
-Lawnmower Man (A man on a jumping lawnmower, this guy can grind anything except the ground into pieces if it gets underneath his lawnmower)
-Explorer Guy (An Indiana Jones-looking guy in a mine cart)
-Santa Claus (Santa Claus on a sleigh that moves by making elves run)
-Pogostick man (The worst character in my opinion, a guy with a lump in his trousers on a pogostick)
-Irresponsible Mom (A woman on a bike with a a little girl riding on the back, and a baby in a basket, presumably this baby is going to be either eaten or sold by the woman)

So yeah, unoriginal names for the characters.
I said currently because their are more character slots, 15 of them to be exact, although I've played this game for a long time and I haven't seen any new characters whatsoever.

Oh sorry I didn't even get to the controls, the controls are simple enough, up arrow to accelerate, down arrow to brake, left and right to lean. Their are some other things like Z to launch your character off their vehicle, and space to grab something after being launched, and left shift and ctrl to do other actions, but really they are useless for most levels.

The physics in this game work like they are supposed to and to be honest, watching someone getting dislocated is entertaining for a few minutes, until you realize you killed someone brutally and you've pretty much committed murder.

SO. Is this game any go- hold on. You want me to talk about the level editor? Look unless the level editor allows me to create a unicorn flavored biscuit or a flying cock that shoots strawberries that increase your health it's not worth talking about, seriously, all you do is drag and drop preset shapes and objects and the make the level either playable to any character or just to one character, which I feel is another form of discrimination.

So like I was saying before, is this game any good? If you don't understand what murder is, then yes this game is for you. But for me, the game lacks any seriousness or objective, so their really isn't much to this other than a shitty community of 7-year old's telling you to "RATE 5 ON MY LVL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOOOOOOOOL!!!!"

Ratings:

Graphics: 3/5
Interactivity: 4/5
Sound: 3/5
Plot: 0/5
Fun: 2/5

Overall: 12/25

Recommendation Rate: Hard to recommend.