I have now finished playing and writing about all the submitted games, you can find the rest of the reviews here: http://darkdroid.com/

I must say that I am impressed by the amount of games submitted, the variery of games, and the overall quality of the entries - especially considering these games were created during a 7 day period. I can easily see at least a couple of these released as successful commercial titles if the authors were so inclined.

Good job everyone!

EDIT: I had a little trouble with some of the games, if authors can offer me some hints I will revisit their game and change my review accordingly!

Thx for the review!

I'm happy you like the graphics (it was not easy to implement as I made the game from scratch). :)

The user interface is not the most friendly (I knew that since I implemented it). I'll try to fix that (I'm planning to port the game to UWP). I'll also give the player more feedback.

I've seen that it was not clear that: "figure looking like a fool appears. I was uncertain if I was supposed to collect him or not.". Once a minute, a wizard appears. When you collect him, it gives you 3 skulls. Also, a big grave appears once a minute. If you collect it you can recieve skulls but you can also lose skulls. It is random. (That may be the cause you've died without knowing what happened)

Two more points of advice occurred to me regarding playing my game:

First, I recommend using headphones while playing: the positional audio can be a useful tool in locating danger.

Second, don't approach the game as a hack-and-slash--that's a good way to get killed in short order, I believe. The player-character is alone, outnumbered, and only a little more powerful than their foes; both player- and enemy- attacks do significant damage (but only the player can heal). Fight accordingly.

I finally decided to make a post mortem entry:

http://www.gamedev.net/blog/2213-silviushaders-woa-iv-dev-journal/

Looking forward to see some 'official reviews' from the judges!

I wrote notes with my submissions but you can't see them until the scores are posted, especially since they'd make the scores (in some cases) pretty apparent.

It would appear that (again) my game is too hard to play.

Here's a quick playthrough I did as soon as I came back home this week (have been away for around a week).

Hopefully it shows 'one of many' strategies that can be employed to play this game.

Remember: Prometheus is not a fighter, he is a builder, that would be why you'd be seeing me prioritizing evolving my ruins over having him at the front (they're much more efficient, and Prometheus is too slow to be everywhere).

(Note: I used the quick-cheat, which does NOT have any impact on gameplay aside from having the ruins spawn at the same time as the enemies, making it technically a bit harder).

Hmmm... they would, though I wasn't expecting it to make much of a difference in this case as I've been running at 60 FPS here without any issue.

Well, teaches me to use frames for something that's clearly time based!