Jigganis's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Toast of War]

Fantastic

This game which Sina and Reza have made: this the sort of game I want to make one day. They've made this platformer compelling, creative, and humorous. Who wouldn't want to play a game that lets you splatter monster butter sticks with chainsaws? I do wish the bosses were shorter, but maybe that's just me.

In the case I get a reply, I don't suppose you guys give online lessons on video game programming, do ya?

Seriously, do ya'll?

sinaiman responds:

Wow, that's quite a nice compliment. We're soon going to publish a "postmortem" about our game, basically detailing everything that occurred during the development process. This will also include a description of programming techniques that I used that you may find useful. This will be put up on our site, www.commonstudios.com, in the "Blog" section.

If you wanna get started doing videogame programming I suggest taking up a popular programming language (Java is nice and simple to start off with, no memory management) and just get comfortable with doing alot of programming. I started game development using c++, but in retrospect it may have been easier on me to have started with java or maybe c# (both manage memory for you). I don't suggest starting with flash, as it's too simplistic and you can get away with doing alot of bad programming, while working with java or c++ or c# will really get you to learn those core programming concepts and later apply these good concepts to flash programming. (But, on the other hand, if you don't wanna take it too seriously flash would be a good place to start just to mess around.) A great site for game development is www.gamedev.net and if you decide to do 3d game programming check out http://nehe.gamedev.net for some great tutorials for using C++ in conjunction with the OpenGL graphics library.

But do check on our site in the coming days as I plan to have a lengthy discussion on the collision detection system which I kinda winged for this game, since I haven't ever done any real programming in flash before.

Until then, good luck on your game creation quest and if you have any questions at all I'd actually like to hear them and help you get started or help you along with anything really (web design, programming, content creation, etc)

-Sina

[Rocket Car]

Quick n Dirty

Short, fun, and creative. You guys'll make good levels with LittleBigPlanet, I'm sire.

[Gateway]

This is not a game...

...This is art.

P.S. Keypads and channels, from the driveway to the place of rest. The first digit/channel is 9.

P.S.S. Lightbulb flashes count another sequence: # of flashes = # of color.

[Aggressive Alpine Skiing]

4... F|_|(|<1|\|6 days to make this?!?!

I don't know how someone could do that. Good work!

[Gravity Launch]

AAAH SCIENCE GET IT AWAY

I think this was very creative and fun. It'd be nice if it were a little simpler to complete missions though... I mean, there could be several moons, and you'd just have to be able to find the exactly right angle to blast off at, like a pipes game, except leave out the thrust stuff. I really like this and I jope it goes on the front page.

[Cursor Thief live]

Wow... A live counter...

I like to hold it above his head so that he just about can reach it, but can't. Its SOOOO cool! I love this. FAVORITE!!!

[Powerfox V.2]

OH MY CRAP LOL

Wow.. This is a very nice little fighting game... However, its rather easy and short. I cant wait for more opponents! Maybe a 2p mode too?

[Save The Ring!]

Addictive!

Fun!

[Sparks]

Simplicity is good, like Katamari Damacy.

Good game. Heh, it reminds me of a minigame in the game Ratchet & Clank Going Commando.

[Final Fantasy Simdate RPG]

what? no pr0n? AAAAaaaagh, 7 days are gone!!!!

No pr0n! OMFG! what the hell is this doing on teh front page d00d!
Forgive me, I am twelve. While I am certaintly disappointed that there isnt any, I wouldn't give a bad score just on those grounds. The game itself just isn't very entertaining. It seems to take forever just to see a girl, and i cant really see why there are all of these places with all sorts of upgrade stuff, because i don't ever seem to use it. Why is this called a sim date RPG? There isn't any rpging as far as i can tell. I say that the other simdates, specifically LH, EVA 4, and GA are better because they are very funny. And they have tons of funny secrets. Please try again, and just copy them. Add in pr0n if you like. There's surely alot of FF pr0n out there.