Tester of games

[odinnightowl]

Hi, I would like to offer my services to test your game(s). I have a background in mainly rpg genre games but i have branched out into simulation ,shooters, and some fighting style games. 

Simply put i would play your game for 30 min to an hour. I would play longer if requested or if the game drew my attention. 

I would then provide a review that would be atleast a min 500 words describing my experience i as great detail as possible.

The review would include my view of the game and all its features followed by things which might need improvement,

Lastly i will rank the game on a scale of 1-10.

If the game is to not be disclosed to the public i will gladly not disclose it or sign a non-dis-closer agreement.

While my views will not be facts and just mere opinions , i would ask that they be respected and accepted for just that. 

I will give my opinions freely and from there it is your job to use them or not i just ask that even if they are negative please don't try to start a flame war or anythign of that sort.

My requests of you are simple either post your game here or private message me about it.

Grant me one week to test your game out before contacting me again as i do have personal hobbies which take me away from computing.

Please do not send me intentionally non-playable or bad games. 

 

[Gui]

Thanks for proposing this service.

My game is presently in pre-demo stage and I could use some additional feedback: please follow the link in my sig' to get to the thread where you'll find a presentation of my project with screenshots, a synopsis and a download link. Overall length is around 1h30 of play for now.

Hope you'll like it: feel free to post your opinion here 

 

[xSparkZx]

Hello, I'd like to offer my "pre-demo". It's a piece of chapter one and I would like you to give feedback. The sprites are all made by my own sprite artist, the title screen is made by my own normal artist, and some scripts have been made by my own scripter. I hope you'll play it through! (The demo stops after the princesse's palace.)

I'll send you the download link in a PM.

Stay safe!

Shards dev team

 

[odinnightowl]

Hello, I'd like to offer my "pre-demo". It's a piece of chapter one and I would like you to give feedback. The sprites are all made by my own sprite artist, the title screen is made by my own normal artist, and some scripts have been made by my own scripter. I hope you'll play it through! (The demo stops after the princesse's palace.)

I'll send you the download link in a PM.

Stay safe!

Shards dev team

Tested and review sent.

Thanks for proposing this service.

My game is presently in pre-demo stage and I could use some additional feedback: please follow the link in my sig' to get to the thread where you'll find a presentation of my project with screenshots, a synopsis and a download link. Overall length is around 1h30 of play for now.

Hope you'll like it: feel free to post your opinion here 

Will start testing this game shortly and post my review afterwards.

 

[odinnightowl]

Thanks for proposing this service.

My game is presently in pre-demo stage and I could use some additional feedback: please follow the link in my sig' to get to the thread where you'll find a presentation of my project with screenshots, a synopsis and a download link. Overall length is around 1h30 of play for now.

Hope you'll like it: feel free to post your opinion here 

Review time. 

My impressions: 

Beautiful maps and an interesting story driven tale of a young man who sets out to help his kingdom when it is in dire times. Highly bound on in-depth stories and character to character interaction via cutscenes. Worth playing if you are a fan of RPGs and character development. This story also seems to focus on just the main character with others joining and leaving him from time to time.I personally enjoyed this game for the most part.

Improvements:

Shop access- From the start of the game you are given from what i saw only 1 chance to access a shop which is at the very beginning of the game prior to any battles and with very little coin to your name. After wards you will get into many fights. While this would be ok as part way thru you are healed at a break in the combat basically, to me hinders the game play thus making the money you do get pointless as you can not use it to buy new gear or healing/status items which you will need. This is something that needs/ought to be built upon as the game is by no means super easy. A few ways to build upon this without tossing way to many spoilers would be at the camp with the hero's brother offer a chance to shop and another when you meet the dragon prior to going forth. Perfect timing would be on the world map cut scene/travel scenes.

Grinding- This game has a lot of that prior to the bosses you will need to grind up atleast afew levels. While this would be ok and all the problem here with grinding is no way to restock on healing items beside the random finds and monster battles which will just help in draining the stock pile all the same.Simple fix i would think is the same as previous item, offer a way to shop be it the world map cut scene or access to the shop via the menu or even simply adding in a healing spring or some such thing so the player need not rely on the small amount of healing items they have.

Cut scene error- The cut scene which starts your adventure where you are speaking with the king is repeatable. This might have been unintended but can be viewed as a glitch and exploit for free easy money. all you need to do is repeat it and bam another 600 coin each time.

Sentence structure error- while minor it is seen early on with the hero's first learned move-Yoroidoshi. The flavor text reads" Deals defense ignoring damage to one enemy." no doubt this is an error and should read" Deals damage ignoring defense to one enemy."

Item usage- This glitch came up once but seemed to clear up as i continued playing. One of my party members used a healing item and then on the same turn was also able to attack. the use of an item should have counted as his turn . This only happened  once but i still felt it deserved to be mentioned.

This last one is merely a curiosity of mine. Random encounters- When you are in the dungeons you have roving guards which act as battles and also random encounters. Not sure if it was meant to be that way as an added level of difficulty but it seems rather harsh when as stated before you have no way to stock up on worth while healing potions and at this point you might have but a few strong healing potions and th enew rather small healing potions.

Rating 6/10 Playable but some things need adjustment.

Pros:

Wonder story

In-depth cut scenes

Lovely maps

Cons:

Grinding

Lack of shop access

Minor grammar issues

For some the cut scene aspects could be viewed as excessive.

 

[Gui]

Thank you very much for your time and effort: truly deeply appreciated, really. Your suggestions also are very welcome and I'm working on them right now.

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Cut scene error- The cut scene which starts your adventure where you are speaking with the king is repeatable. This might have been unintended but can be viewed as a glitch and exploit for free easy money. all you need to do is repeat it and bam another 600 coin each time.

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Could you tell me more on this point? How did you manage to repeat this part to get more money? I'm confused here...

 

[odinnightowl]

Thank you very much for your time and effort: truly deeply appreciated, really. Your suggestions also are very welcome and I'm working on them right now.

Could you tell me more on this point? How did you manage to repeat this part to get more money? I'm confused here...

While playing i was searching around where to go after completing said cut scene. Looking for the shops and such ,when i just happened to walk back into the castle. This restarted the cut scene as if i had never watched it. After going thru the cut scene againand it saying i was given 600 coinage i opened my inventory to seen i now had 1000 coinage where previously i had only 400 after buying a few potions.

 

[Gui]

Alright: thank you very much!

Really a stupid mistake on my part...

 

[odinnightowl]

Alright: thank you very much!

Really a stupid mistake on my part...

Atleast it was caught early on. That is one of the bonuses of having a tester assist you along the way.

 

[odinnightowl]

bump

 

[Blinn]

Hey there, I saw your status update and I don't know if you saw my response.

So I've got a game that I've been working on for about a month called Uniques United. It uses entirely original sound design and most of the other assets were hand-drawn. Many of the spells use placeholder sprites but are animated differently from the ones in the RTP.

There are a few issues with the game and they will be noticed as you play the game, but the game itself is playable, there are no game-breaking bugs (to my knowledge) and the difficulty is challenging but doable. I'd like to hear your input on it if you have time. You can find Uniques United in my signature by clicking on Development Thread. I look forward to hearing what you've got to say about it.

The point of this game is to have made something different and entirely original. I'm mostly there with the graphics and I'm all the way there with the audio. I hope you enjoy it, a lot of thought went into making this demo.

 

[odinnightowl]

Hey there, I saw your status update and I don't know if you saw my response.

So I've got a game that I've been working on for about a month called Uniques United. It uses entirely original sound design and most of the other assets were hand-drawn. Many of the spells use placeholder sprites but are animated differently from the ones in the RTP.

There are a few issues with the game and they will be noticed as you play the game, but the game itself is playable, there are no game-breaking bugs (to my knowledge) and the difficulty is challenging but doable. I'd like to hear your input on it if you have time. You can find Uniques United in my signature by clicking on Development Thread. I look forward to hearing what you've got to say about it.

The point of this game is to have made something different and entirely original. I'm mostly there with the graphics and I'm all the way there with the audio. I hope you enjoy it, a lot of thought went into making this demo.

Yes i saw just have been busy.I already have the game downloaded and extracted for play though i would liek to point out that the larger of the 2 files the one with the RTP come sup as corrupt when i down loaded it thus i had to down load the smaller one. I fyou would liek my review private you can freely pm me and inform me of that . if not i will post one copy here and the other copy of the review on the games dev page.

 

[Anorak]

If you could play-test my 15-30 minute horror game, that'd be much appreciated. 

The link to the download can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/p35o0525kmw1pge/Stricken.zip

 

[Blinn]

Yes i saw just have been busy.I already have the game downloaded and extracted for play though i would liek to point out that the larger of the 2 files the one with the RTP come sup as corrupt when i down loaded it thus i had to down load the smaller one. I fyou would liek my review private you can freely pm me and inform me of that . if not i will post one copy here and the other copy of the review on the games dev page.

Feel free to post it on here and the game's dev page. Also, nobody else has had a problem playing the game with the RTP. You sure it's not a problem on your end?

 

[odinnightowl]

Feel free to post it on here and the game's dev page. Also, nobody else has had a problem playing the game with the RTP. You sure it's not a problem on your end?

i can try downloading it again and see what happens but the smaller download worked perfectly.

 

[Blinn]

i can try downloading it again and see what happens but the smaller download worked perfectly.

I'll have a look.

 

[Seriel]

Hello, could you please test my game, the only people who've played it are me and my friends, so I need an unbiased opinion.

I'm trying to keep it as private as possible, so I'll send you a PM with the Download Link soon.

Sorry if it's bad.

Thank you for reading!

Edit: Sent you the link

Also, could you please PM me your opinion of it, because it's private.

 

[odinnightowl]

Uniques United Review

 

Overall View of the game:

The game seems to be a fun game over all with simplistic gameplay with a few more complex things tossed in. With out any read-mes or information in the game specifically telling you or even hinting to th euse of a specific move to use ,this game can be very brutal and death is a rather common thing. This game start off well with the 4th wall breaking aspect tossed at you many times when it could simply be shown as Miranda talking to her self about maybe i should check everything for hidden goodies. The first and 2nd weapons are given within 3 second ro so of walkign distance with no combat in between. The item empty bottle which it is supposed to be filled there is no direct thing saying how to do that and infact i passed that up for most the demo as is. The tutorial for doing so is rather comfusing and ends with a choic eof yes or no in which you as a player have no idea what you are agreeing to. There needs to be a more direct tutorial here and perhaps after you fill the bottle by selecting yes, a text box sayign "received 1 mystical water". Next comes to the scrolling text between area 1 and 2 whihc is voice acted and just lovely. The voice actor has a beautiful voice and it suits the character well. Though the text needs to be a little more in sync with the voice. Once you reach the next floor you have another scrolling text item which is better suited for text boxes instead. Then here comes teh "fun" part grinding. I honestly hate pointless grinding in rpg games. Here not only do you have to do it for a while with just teh main character , you have to repeat it with the 2nd character added to you party. THis seems to be the biggest thing to the game. Grinding needs to be fixed or the level scheme changed. When you have to grind that much it takes away from wanting to play the game and in turn makes it rather boring. Also once you have the 2nd character to around level 5 ,unless you go in the harder rooms meant for level 10 or 15, the brutality of the game goes away and is replaced with a level of easiness which just seems out of place. 

 

Over all the game has potential to be something good but with the grinding and many things easily missed by the normal player it makes for a hard and not so fun to play game. 

 

Things i would change:

 

Breakage of the 4th wall.

Sheer amount of grinding.

Empty bottle tutorial.(make miranda mention something like "O, Maybe i can fill these bottles in this pool of water.)(also the 2nd area has water but the water is useless which is confusing.)

Flavor text for moves so the player might know the move grants a 2nd turn. (players like me just want to attack or use spells not use stat boosts and waste a turn.Which out having read your Dev page i had no idea the move granted a 2nd turn and thus never would have used it.)

What is teh point of neil? HE starts with all the gear that miranda had which is OP now due to grinding but is a spell caster and should have higher MP as well as spells should be more powerful then reg attacks and should have more then the learned fire bolt.

 

Things i would keep:

 

The layout- it is nice and makes one feel they are in a rather large stoe building.

The voice actor-whoever they are they have a lovely sound and i hope you use them ruther.

 

Rating 4.5/10

Challenging but if you don't know you need to use a certain move you are screwed and the game makes you not want to play."

Lack of tutorials-it wasn't till i got neil that i even was able to figure out the use of empty bottles.

 

[odinnightowl]

Hello, could you please test my game, the only people who've played it are me and my friends, so I need an unbiased opinion.

I'm trying to keep it as private as possible, so I'll send you a PM with the Download Link soon.

Sorry if it's bad.

Thank you for reading!

Edit: Sent you the link

Also, could you please PM me your opinion of it, because it's private.

Yes i will give your game a test and pm you the review privately. I currently have one short game ahead of you but you are next after that.

 

[odinnightowl]

If you could play-test my 15-30 minute horror game, that'd be much appreciated. 

The link to the download can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/p35o0525kmw1pge/Stricken.zip

Aww Horror-generally a genre i stray from.

Short game so short review.

Not sure what to say about this game negatively. Basically a person's worse fear. They wake up in a hospital with no memory and every one is gone. All that is left is a mangled corpse ,blood and bloody foot prints. This then leaves you to try and figure out what is going on and possibly escape. After getting the key to get on the elevator it then randomly stops and puts you out on a floor where right around the corner is a mysterious guy walkign away. It only gets creepier fromt here and you end up having to hide while something is stalkign the room you are in.

I honestly see no real need for improvement beside length and perhaps having the player talk to him self about the surroundings and perhaps comment on the blood.

Rating 8.5/10 

Playable and worth it if you are a horror fan.

Just short and can use a little more inner dialog.