Kolba

Thanks guys

Hiya, Feedback is sought! I finished my first html5 game aimed at touch devices specifically, Ninja Star. Whilst it does work on desktops too, it is simply more fun to launch deadly ninja stars with a quick tap or swipe of the finger! Ninja Star aimes for a retro arcade-action experience. The player (ninja) must protect three villages from incresingly dangerous waves of marauders. The marauders behave differently depending on their colour, some posing more of a threat than others, and some even fighting back! Ninja Star features bonus stages, score multipliers for killing multiple enemies at once, and special super weapons for the screen-clearing mass destruction of evil bandits. Play it here: http://www.skylinesublime.com/games/ninja

It's unfortunate that the FiMaRu battle seems to have been discontinued, so a contest here would be brill, prizes or no.

In that case, does anyone make anything from ads, and what portals are they using to generate their traffic? This is not so much directed at you Rich but any dev using ads (I know True Valhalla is one - I've heard him mention Leadbolt).

Why's that Rich? I released my desktop HTML5 game to Kongregate, GameJolt and Newgrounds, and whereas the amount of views for the former two are in the hundreds, at Newgrounds it received close to 70,000 plays and 30 pages of feedback. I don't monetize my games now, I'm happy enough just having them played by as many people as possible, and Newgrounds is the runaway winner here. For those who do monetize, 70,000 views suggests some earning potential from ads,

I like the humour of the game, I laughed during the intro and game over screens. The framerate is pretty low on my desktop running Chrome, and the gameplay suffers as a result. What FPS did you get during testing?

With LD´s high participation one of two things could happen. 1) Your entry isn´t special enough to stand out, and vanishes into the ether without so much as a comment. Or 2) the theme sparks a moment of inspired genius and your entry comes to be considered amongst the best. LD is a big event, so lots of big sites publish rundowns of their favourite submissions; If your game is amongst the chosen that could amount to a lot of attention and a lot of feedback. There's nothing wrong with being ambitious as hell, nothing at all.

I use Grafx2 for pixelart, since it's based on the Amiga paint programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance, and basically I'm an Amiga fanboy.