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[-DEBT BUGS-]

Different

This is different from your normal enteries but that is probably because its for work...and it's not LDS related ;)

I'm a big fan of you and your work. I have you down as my favorite artist and I've got a few of your submissions in my favs as well. Going off of all of those, and judging by your previous work, this wasn't the same. In quality yeah, but it had a different style. On the other hand I should give you congrats on that because it fulfilled what it was designed to be.

The game ends way too quickly though and so it gets dull real fast. I suggest making an alternate NG version so we could play longer and it'd have greater value. Yeah?

I don't know..I'm not sure why you submitted this, but either way you get a good job from me. It's not the greatest thing you've done in my opinion but hey. Next time though, I wanna see some BOM stories. Eh? Eh? *nudge nudge* I've always thought about how funny it'd be if you did spoofs depicting alternate BOM storylines. Like, "we know the story goes like this, but what if this happend instead" Nephi meeting Moroni etc, etc. Ah, but who am I to tell ya what to do?

Hence forth. Keep on working and serving. Whether it be in the world or in ours.

-Darkend-

BoMToons responds:

I'm not sure why I submitted it either.

It's been a long time since I submitted something to NG on my own (been doing collaborative efforts lately) and you get a certain rush from the portal submission and review process.

A lot of the reasoning was curiosity as to what the NG community would say to a banner ad being submitted thru the portal.

Thanks for supporting me as an author. We've got some really cool stuff in the works, most importantly: The sequel to brother Nephi's adventure...it's coming out amazingly and will hopefully be done by the end of the year or early January.

[Click Shot]

This Is Hot

I love the style this was created in. Everything from the music, sounds, and looks was awesome and very pleasing to my tastes. I took some time to examine your design. From looking at the grid in the background, to watching the cross-hair effects when you take a shot. I like how the outter cursor pulses out to a different direction everytime and its rotation speed accelerates. Slick.

One thing that would be nice to have though is a Main Menu button at the highscores table. After you play the game and submit your score, you're stuck staring at the score screen and the only way to try again is to close out of the window and load it back up.

Either way, this rocked my socks off. Ch'yeah, they're gone. Lets see what you can do when you spend more time on a bigger project, eh? I'll be watching.

-Darkend-

64 responds:

1st paragraph - Thank you! I'm glad someone noticed the subtle effects in this game.

2nd - Yeah, I told one of the reviewers before that it's a glitch that can't be fixed (right now). I'm gonna try to work on it, though.

Awesome review, gracias!

[Mobile Weapon Assault]

Question

You titled this Mobile Weapon Assault, but isn't it supposed to be Mobile Assault Weapon? After all, the machines are called, "MAW's". Just thought I'd point that out.

Anyway, if there is anything you should know, I am one heck of a huge fan when it comes to mecha. (my name where I'm known is literally 2.0) You guys got some real potential here. Great stat design, level creation, and graphics, but I guess what I don't like it your style. The people you draw are excellent, no doubt about it, but your style of mecha is the number one thing that shys me away from your series. Same goes with the design of your badguys. They're just....egh I dunno. I draw mecha myself and we just kinda have opposite styles.

As far as gameplay goes, this one got real boring, real fast. Things just seemed very repetitive with no real changing objectives. Always the same, progress through this level, blow this stuff up, the end, yay. Y'know? You guys definatly took this game in a different direction compared to your last one in the series.

Don't get me wrong, I think what you've got going here is great. I wish I could launch some of my own stuff out here, (which I will in the coming months) so I admire what you're doing, keep it up. Like I said before, I love mecha, I love technology, so I naturally have an attraction to your creation. I hope your next installment will be a little above this one as far as gameplay and quality. Good Work.

-Darkend-

TylerProjects responds:

The MAWs are actually "Mobile Adaptive Weapon".

Mobile Weapon Assault is just the name for our series of side scroller shooter for the MW world.

The main MW series will still remain as a pure RPG genre.

:p

[WEBCAM FUN]

...boring

Hey Noobis don't worry because even if your cam did work it still would've been very boring and useless. My webcam is built into my computer so of course it worked. And all it was was the view of yourself while laying music. Thats it. Dude, if I wanted to do that, then I'll turn on my webcam on my computer and play my own music. This is useless on the portal because there isn't anything special. sucked.

-Darkend-

Edli responds:

LOL PANTS PANTS PANTS PANTS