Haloween game feedback appreciated

[andybudd]

Hi Guys,

We've just finished programming our Halloween game, and would appreciate your feedback.

The URL is

http://www.message.uk.com/halloween

Hope you enjoy it. any comments or advice welcome

[pinkaboo]

Hiya, I had a look at that game for you, had a fun time thank you.
The only major flaw that I felt the game had was the text. Not only does the text look out of place it is quite hard to read. I think it lets the design of the game down somewhat as you seem to have put lots of effort into making the game graphics yet the instructions and all other text looks like it has been thrown on afterwards as a last minute thing, a bit odd really.
Also, why does the game switch from high quality to low when you click past the instructions? It looks really awful, so awful that I couldn't actually read the instructions to set it to high quality until I had made it high quality again via the right click mouse menu. most peculiar. sorry
Other than that, happy Halloween!

K

[vilehelm]

this is pretty good. everything performs well. what frame rate do you use?

the only real problem is the sound. the bonus item sound is a flash ready made sound and should be replaced with something a little more appropriate. you hear that sound on too many sites now. even Puma uses it on their site and they probably payed in excess of $75,000 for that peice of crap.

if you have any $ try sounddogs.com. great great sound archive. reasonably priced.

[vilehelm]

oops it looks like puma has changed their site. well, it used to be on the site when it was all red...kudos to puma for not being as lame as i thought.

[andybudd]

The game is supposed to be set at high quality on the intro, instruction and high-score pages, but switch to low quality when the game is playing to allow the game to run smoothly.

Was it the 'jagged-ness' of the text that you found a problem (due to the low-quality setting) or was it the general layout and content?

[pinkaboo]

Hiya,
'fraid it was both really, at low quality it's unreadable and I just felt that the layout of the text let the game down, I think it just looks like an afterthought. ;0( sorry.

K