You gotta love Google. I just came across a game designer’s blog which gave a very positive review of this Flash game I built over a year and a half ago called Blowboat. I happen to have a lot of affection for Blowboat because it represented a period in my life when it was easy to find time to learn new things (it was only the second Flash game I’d ever made, and is so heavily-influenced by Orisinal that it’s almost a tribute game).
Anyway: although the blogger himself seemed to like the game, some of the people who commented didn’t find it quite as enjoyable. It was the first time I received some genuinely useful feedback about the game, which didn’t fall under the usual "that’s one slimey gutter" or "i don’t get how to play this"-type comments. (And this is considering that the game was being played as much as 25,000 times per month when the link was making the rounds online last year.)
One comment in particular made me laugh:
Anyways, It’s a fun game and i like the visuals with the fish and and water. I just don’t understand how all these things are passing by yet the ground and the kids are in one place =P
Too funny. I spent 6 weeks developing that stupid game and it didn’t once occur to me how thoroughly Escher-esque the concept was.