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Not to be too redundant here, but it is a rather interesting concept, but could be executed much better. Have some form of goals, awards, etc.. Like awards for having 5, 10... friends, keeping a friend for x seconds. Maybe have a safe-house every so often to shelter your friends. Using all the letters and numbers makes it very chaotic from the start. Gradually increase this difficulty over time, say by starting with numbers only, then adding common letters, etc.. Again, nice concept, but needs a lot of work.
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This is a really quirky, charming idea - and I LOVE that the music changes as you get more friends, it's just a shame that it's so hard to keep many alive for long. I think the thing that's mostly off is how fast the Friends run from left to right - in comparison to how fast the screen scrolls, it makes it really harsh.
McEvoyEVP's ideas are brilliant, perhaps you should look on the Developer forums for someone who can help you make this really special if the extra features are too ambitious. At the very least, it needs a title screen and a definite set of 'Game Over' events (Time limit, death of friends, high scores etc) Good luck! :D
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The sound just makes me go OOOOH MY GODS MY BRAIN IS BEING FORMATTED.
Anyway, I agree with McCoy - Original concept just there doesnt really seem to be any point to actually playing.
Also it's possible for two of the same key to appear on the screen at the same time. Needs fixin'
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Well, I'd be lying if I said I've played something like this before. You have a concept, now you need to give us a reason to play it.
Best of luck.
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Nice concept but things get so busy so quickly and you have to keep switching sets of keys as suddenly a three deep hole opens up that it's just too difficult to keep track of what's going on, with perseverance you could learn this game very well, I have no doubt, but then again where is the pay off? The music doesn't do it for me (maybe because it starts off too monotonous and I'm not good enough to get far enough for it to become captivating) and the score is barely noticeable hidden up in the corner while you panic about your random eight friends all over the place or whatever... then you get good gang going and they all end up in a multiplier, you lose what music you had and this random number in the corner just goes up faster... so again... what's the payoff for learning how to do this well? Sorry, great idea but the real world is all about the implementation because ideas are ten a penny I'm afraid...
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Turbonegro: ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD
Me: No you got infinite friends
turbonegro=band that sings song all my friends are dead