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[Viral LD42]

This game has an interesting concept, and it does seem like a new take on the current depiction of viruses in games, as this is just a "time waster" game and not a horror/fourth wall breaking plot device like in-game viruses are usually made into. It seems a bit hard to figure out and develop a strategy for. Perhaps create a tutorial and/or have there be an easy-to-find virus in the beginning of the game (e.g. right in the file explorer) so that the player knows what viruses look like. That way, you won't have the player being confused and having to figure things out on their feet at the beginning of their first few playthroughs. I love the humorous art style, though :D

BigBossErndog responds:

Thanks for the review and some good critical points made. The best strategy (in my opinion) is to use is to use the usage hud to figure out where the largest virus is (the usage will show growing large numbers - this is how you track the viruses), take it out and quickly return to the root folder to repeat.

But yes, I do agree with you perhaps an easy to spot virus should have been made first to familiarize the player with the viruses :)

As for being just a 'time waster' and not a fourth wall breaking game...... I'll let others be the judge of that ;)

[Climb the Word]

This game has a particularly interesting concept, albeit one that I couldn't see much of. I couldn't even get to the flag because I placed my hook on the left side of the gap and couldn't jump the gap or place another hook on the right side of the gap. Obviously, that's easily fixable - just make it so that the player can place their hook on the right or jump the gap. Also, the player character's hitbox is shaped a little weirdly, such that in certain situations, I'll not be able to get on top of a word via the rope because his arms or backpack will get stuck under it. Perhaps make it a rectangular shape instead of the shape of the character himself. If these get fixed, I'll probably return with another review about the content itself.

Edit much later: I was actually able to get past the point that I was stuck at before. Entire review will be revised soon. One bug I've seen is that the "take flag" thing still shows up even when you've taken the flag. I see you fixed the hitbox thing, if there had been a problem with the hitbox. Another bug: Edwin can hover in mid air via the use of wind resistance when falling. Furthermore, I wish that the game losing focus would pause it, because I'm getting pop ups from my computer and they cause me to be unable to move, but the wind keeps going, which means I lose progress.