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[Trivial Trivia: Holidays and Celebrations Vol. 2]

This was a pretty good game. I thought I'd get all the US holidays right. I would be horrible at most of the other entries! Anyway, this was very clear to understand. I do wish that you'd say what the correct answer was. I like the title.

Well, it's December, so holidays do seem right. Wait, there's a holiday like every time of the week! You should just figure these out on your own. I'm too lazy to list every single obscure answer. I guess it really does make sense to say Happy Holidays!

applessmillion responds:

Appreciate the review! We're split on how to display a wrong answer screen - showing the correct answer would be neat but remove the need to jump back in and guess again, and not displaying it doesn't really tell you anything new beyond a hint relating to the question/answer. Will take your feedback and appreciate the review!

[Everything is Coots]

Aww, what a sweet game this is! I have no idea why the score is so low. It's not a complicated game at all to get medals. I got half of them. You really do have to figure it out on your own. I had no idea I would get to possess my owner.

It ended up being worth it at the end. Everyone got what they wanted. It certainly took a long time to get this frontpaged, huh? Whatever, it's very adorable. Never heard of a Ludwig Jam before.

dragonslumber responds:

I'm glad you enjoyed it, I had also not heard about Ludwig jam prior to making the game, and then my friend mentioned it and I thought it would be fun ^_^

[Kill the Turkey]

Happy Thanksgiving! It's nice to be so easy to understand. Then again, that made it kind of boring. This animation wasn't too good either. Still, it was just okay I guess. It reminded me of the animation of "Pico's School".

That's not a compliment. At least it wasn't the same phrase over and over. There was a little variety. I like how there's some Thanksgiving stuff here. You seem to rarely get those here.

CalamityGanon responds:

I can see how it made it a bit boring. I had wanted to add more animations, but due to time constraints more refined animations and some voicelines are missing. I hope to fix those in a later update. I might keep the animations the same though as I like the way it is since it feels like the old Newgrounds style. (Like you said, Pico's School.) Thanks!

[Primal Planet DEMO]

This was a very fascinating game! The best part was probably how much of a cool world you created. You really knew how to put everything together so well! I didn't even notice my little dinosaur companion. Yeah, I'm not going to make the umpteenth Flintstones joke. It was indeed primal.

I was stuck with jumping up through a bridge or something. It was fun to just destroy things. There were so many things to collect. I liked how you could really explore. There always seemed to be more options. This was quite well detailed for a sprite game.

SeethingSwarm responds:

Thanks so much for the kind words and I'm really glad you enjoyed the demo of Primal Planet :)

Did you ever get past the place you got stuck? Perhaps I can help out, or maybe improve the game.

Anyway, thanks again and it's so nice that you appreciate the details about the game. I'll do my best to make the full game even better!

[Daymare Cat 10-year Anniversary Edition]

What a quaint little game this is. I do get stuck at a certain point. You can't always climb where you think you can climb. The artwork is so nice. You've created a nice little world to live in. It's like a drawing come to life.

I got as far as the first record. You'd be surprised how much time flies. It's especially when you're working on a big project. I still can't find use for that pyramid. Uh, Happy Veteran's Day if that means anything here.

Mateusz-Skutnik responds:

Yes I agree. This is really old platforming engine created in flash. I'll take good care of this game when remastering it for entire daymare series in one game (actually working on that remaster right now. Link in the game).

[Blood Gauntlet]

Well, this was a good game, but it was really difficult. I had no idea I would be losing my blood automatically. I thought that would only happen when I hit stuff! I was thinking there would be a medal for beating a level! Okay enough whining, this is a pretty cool game. You just have to be reeeeally fast.

There's definitely action to spare. You have to make that action happen. The worst part was not knowing which path I should take. Luckily, I didn't have to destroy every enemy. I never seemed to run out of those blue potions.

decafpanda responds:

Thanks for playing. The blue potions are your ultimate attack count. Using your ultimate attack is extremely important to wreck the battlefield and gain blood.

[Stay Indoors]

I'm sorry, but I didn't care much for this. The graphics weren't very impressive. They just needed to be more detailed. I guess I should have stayed indoors. The author's comments were too lengthy. It just didn't come off as rewarding.

I still appreciate how it was kind of unique. I seem to say "unique" a lot in these reviews, huh? It was at least appropriate for Halloween. I couldn't be motivated to get very far. The rating's still pretty high.

Chris responds:

Thats fair.

The reason the graphics are as simple as they are is because the game is intended to look and play like a ZX Spectrum game. Which was an early home computer that allowed a very small palette of 15 colours and out of that palette only 2 colour could be displayed within an 8x8px block (this includes the background colour).

This further ties into the story that accompanies the game in the Author’s Comments. The story is a meta history of the game which pretends that it is a real game from the 1980s. I felt it added extra depth to the game and was a novel way to offer hints on the game. I completely appreciate that this may not be to everyone’s tastes though.

[Pokemon Variance Collab]

I have to admit that I was quite impressed by this. The number of drawings was huge. I liked how you could make a sparkling effect. I still don't follow any of you people. I don't know why this appeared under latest from the people I followed. I don't follow any of you!

I thought this would be like a remake of the original pokemon games. It was still wonderful. I'm going to have to play some of those myself someday. The colors were so nice. It's amazing how much of a positive influence pokemon has been on us.

EmsDeLaRoZ responds:

Maybe why this appeared in your feed without following any of us could be because you can see the latest uploads of users followed by your friends (that's an option you can change in the feed settings)

[Twigi's Twisted Costumes]

I thought it said "Twigi's Twisted Christmas" at first. I'm glad it was a Halloween cartoon. It was also a Dress-Up Game. I haven't played one of those in a long time. They're usually pornographic. This was pretty cute.

It was just costumes more. I don't know who this character is. Well, it's obviously Twigi, but I know nothing about her. It's a her, right? The drawings are indeed rather nice.

Nebulate responds:

Lol we arrent in x-mas season yet (even tho the stores says so). And yeah, we wanted this game to stand out from other dressup games out there and sutch with the voicelines and sutch.

As for Twigi the character: Twigi is a they/them just so you know that (i dont blame you for interpreting differently). And they are a kid that likes to dress up and sutch (they also like burgers alot).

[Bug Catcher]

Okay, this was just not enjoyable for me. I went down and nothing happened. The spacebar didn't work. I swear I was right on top of the prey! Nothing seemed to work here! It was not rewarding at all!

It was just too simplistic. I can still appreciate how it was kind of unique. That doesn't always mean good. I just wish you could get closer to your prey. Tiny creatures is a pretty nice theme.

SpookDev responds:

Hello! Thanks for the feedback! Turns out, for whatever reason, the script responsible for the player decided to revert to a previous state, making the game unplayable. I'll release a patch in a couple of days to fix the issue and add some medals to make it more fun!