Gooch's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Cupcake Empire 2]

I love idle games, and this one is right up there. I like having more interactions besides just collecting cupcakes, and strategically spending your money is important with having to pay your taxes, too. Overall, nice game.

jejkobb responds:

You have no idea how good it feels to see those words right now, this is one of my biggest games, and my first time developing the last touches of a game. I really didn't make this game because I had to, but because it was fun. It feels really rewarding, thank you man.

[They Live: The Game]

Awesome game. Captures an iconic scene perfectly. Fun as hell, too. RIP Rowdy Roddy. Nice work.

deathink responds:

Thank you very much Gooch.

[Insert Coin]

It is quite the challenging game. Simple, yet fun. I do love the 8-bit style. Great stuff.

Note: I got eighteen points on one of my attempts in the game, but I didn't get credit for the medal. Possibly broken? I'm not sure.

drludos responds:

Hi, there was indeed a bug preventing you from unlocking the third medal (There was an erroneous blank space after the name of the medal in my code, so the API wasn't able identify the medal when you unlocked it).

It should be corrected now, I'm sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for reporting it!

[Hockey Dad]

It's funny how this illustrates such an ongoing problem in youth sports. Dads getting too competitive over their son doing something bad to another's son. It's like, "Who's playing the sport here?" But yeah, short, simple, and funny. Cool stuff.

Aprime responds:

Hahaha, you got it! Glad you enjoyed :)

[Candy for Christmas]

I thought it was a fun game. Seeing how it is your 2nd game from a previous review response, I thought it was put together well. Graphics were okay, but that improves with experience, so I'm not going to knock you much on that.

To me, I think jumping in this game was kind of pointless. Maybe something to work on if you make another type of these games is to have obstacles come by from the side from time-to-time to make jumping purposeful. I also thought another medal that would have benefits for your game was to have one for scoring 1000 points in free mode. Most people will probably stop free mode after five minutes once they get that medal.

As far as I'm concerned, that would have made things more challenging for most. Overall though, I give your game a thumbs up.

Optimos responds:

Well, jumping is sometimes useful for avoiding bombs, trust me. And yeah, hopefully graphics will improve with time & practice.
Thanks for the review :)

[Zoo Search]

Not a Bad Game.

It certainly was a different game than I expected to play. I just thought there'd be a little more to it. It's still a fun game. Anything that involves searching for something in a picture is a fun game. The thing I thought the most highly of in the game was the music selection. It seemed to fit very well with the pictures you look through in the game. It kind of makes you think you're going down a stream exploring the wilderness. Nice work.

JigsawPuzzlesFree responds:

Glad you liked it, thanks for sharing your thoughts!

[Doodle Tetris]

Kind of Bland.

I've played a lot of Tetris games on here before. I'm sorry to say that this one isn't as special as any of the others I've played. Sure, the background and shape designs are cool, and the gameplay is okay, but that's about it. The doodling hand is more annoying than anything, and it tends to interfere with the shapes coming down. Also, get some sound effects in there. A game isn't all that fun unless you have sound to go along with it so you have an idea of what's going on.

BigJimmy08 responds:

thanks for giving me somepointers to work on instead of just blamming it like some others

[Exorbis 2]

Excellent Game.

A real brain teaser, if I say so myself. The more challenging it gets, the more fun the game gets as well. The style and animation was pretty sweet, and the music went along with the game perfectly. I also especially liked the fact that the levels build up to be a lot harder. That keeps the person interested in the game beating the easy levels first and moving up to more challenging puzzles. Nice work.

edit-undo responds:

I wish everyone who played this game had the same thoughts as you! Thanks!

[NG BBS Awards 2008]

Fantastic.

I love it. We should have a flash for the BBS Awards done every year. If we do, I'd leave you in charge of them, because you did a tremendous job on this. I also liked how you linked the winners' profiles by their respective categories that they won, and all the stats that were mentioned, also while mentioning past winners. Too bad it's only a once a year flash, because it was done pretty well. Nice work.

Elroy responds:

thank you, I had alot of fun making it.

[Increase its size]

Haha, clever.

I know that's about as simple of a game as is, but that was clever at the same time. I was really hoping the right answer was to not increase the Baha Men CD. Like that really needs to be increased in size. It's a big piece of crap at regular size. But anyways, nice game, good animation, well put together, and I liked the music selection with it. It seemed to fit it pretty well. Nice work.

Joelasticool responds:

Haha thanks. But seriously, did they finally find out who the fuck let the dogs out?