Alex Warren
Name: Alex Warren
Email: alex@axeuk.com
Reviews by Alex Warren
Comment for MagicSword Part 1: Legacy of Earth
01 Jul 2002
The author of this game has now produced a map which should enable you to get past the Halluctination Forest. You can view the map here.
Comment for Earthquake! and Earthquake! 2
01 Jul 2002
Normally from now on I'll turn anybody's review of their own game into a comment, but if you're going to tell people NOT to play your own game... :)
Comment for The Adventures of Koww the Magician
01 Apr 2003
I've now uploaded a version of this game that works properly in the latest versions of Quest.
Comment for Humbug 2
02 Jul 2003
Ed Burns has submitted an updated version of this game.
He writes:
"This is not a diffrent game. I just killed the typos, got rid of un-important Smigs, and added a way to win."
Click here to download Ed Burns's updated version
Comment for MagicSword Part 1: Legacy of Earth
03 Aug 2003
I've now replaced the download for this game with an updated fixed version.
Comment for A Certain Oscar
04 Aug 2003
It seems this game requires MOVECONT.LIB which is not included with Quest by default. I have now updated this game's ZIP file to include this missing file, so you should now be able to play it.
If you're using Quest 3.5 Beta, please extract the files before opening OSCAR.ASL. If you try to open the ZIP file directly Quest will not be able to find the library - this is an issue that will be addressed in future.
Review of Uncle's Mansion
09 Aug 2003
To improve this game you should:
- check your spelling. In the very first room it says "You can go out to spiral starirs".
- as with your other game, "Locked Up", provide descriptions for objects. Most of the objects in this game are nothing but names. They don't do anything whatsoever and add nothing to the gameplay.
- your description in your mis-spelled "spiral starirs" rooms is "Do you want to go up the stairs?". This implies the player can type "yes" or "no" - but they can't. Put yourself in the player's shoes, and think about what they are expecting to happen at each point in your game.
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Review of the missing dog
09 Aug 2003
To improve this game:
- check your spelling and punctuation. The first thing the player sees is "when you were walking you saw a poster wrate on it a missing dog 100000 dollars will be given to who find the missing dog then slowly an idea has flawn in to your head if you found the dog you will be rich and then you can live happy life and you can send your sisiter to school and fulfill all your dreams!"
This gives an appalling first impression, and most people will probably quit the game immediately.
- provide better descriptions for objects and set them up correctly. For example, the description of the "mum" character is "nice mum". This tells the player nothing. Also you haven't set up the gender, so if the player tries to "take mum" they see "You can't take it". You should set the "mum" object to have a gender of "her" so that this text appears properly.
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Review of LockedUP!!
09 Aug 2003
To improve this game you should:
- use prefixes so room descriptions display properly. "You are in main hall. There is sword, machine gun and oil here" is not proper English and it's the first thing the player sees. This gives a very poor initial impression. Try giving the main hall a prefix of "the" and the objects prefixes of "a" or "some" to make the descriptions read properly.
- give your objects descriptions. Players expect to be able to type "look at sword" etc. to find out more about objects.
- some of the objects are a little peculiar. Why is there a machine gun in the room you have been locked in? Why does dropping the sword after I have picked it up move me to the basement?
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Comment for The Mansion
28 Aug 2004
Start Quest, click Options, go to Other, then click "Restore File Associations". Click OK. You should then be able to launch the game.
Comment for Gumball Gary Leaves The House
26 Dec 2004
Oh for god's sake... I am the guy who is running the site and allowing you to have your game available for download here. I wrote Quest, created this website, and I make and enforce the rules about who can post what on here. And I don't allow people to rate their own games - or "their friends using the same computer as the author". Right...
Comment for MagicSword Part 1: Legacy of Earth
10 Feb 2008
It seems to be a bug in the latest version of Quest. I'll take a look into it...
Comment for hellfire
30 May 2008
It looks black on black on my machine - but you can see the text if you go to Quest, Options, Display, Colours, "Don't allow games to change foreground and background colours".
Something that the author should fix though!
Comment for grounded
23 Aug 2008
Andrew, I really don't think you're in a position to criticise spelling - just look at your own comments!
You may be interested in the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAWS_(screen_reader)
Comment for Colours - F&M
27 Nov 2008
"Play online" is now fixed for this game.
Comment for Happy?
27 Nov 2008
I've corrected the filename which means you can now actually "play" this.
Comment for Beyond Exile 1.4
23 May 2009
Note that this doesn't seem to work with the "Play online" feature at the moment.
Also as it's quite a long game I would advise people to download it to play offline using Quest - so you'll be able to save your progress as you go along.
Comment for Shipwrecked
20 Oct 2009
I've updated the download to a ZIP file which includes the images and sounds you uploaded separately, so please let me know if this works.
In future you can just upload a ZIP containing your CAS and any images and sounds required. Please don't upload ZIP files that don't contain Quest games as this flags up an error and they'll get deleted.
Comment for Shipwrecked
29 Oct 2009
Updated to the latest version uploaded by the author: "The final version I hope. With the slide puzzle fixed."
Comment for Barbarian
03 Dec 2009
I've now updated the game file with the v1.1 version uploaded by the author.