Oops, I thought Overall was a separate category! X.X

Oh well, thanks for hosting WANO, and congrats to the winners!

I hope all of you strongly consider continuing your games, as they had a lotta good ideas in them :)

Excellent contest, everyone! I would have liked to see more entries completed (especially compared to the number of people who threw their hats into the ring originally; but I guess that's usually how it goes with these things), but we still got a lot of really cool entries! (and perhaps some of those that didn't finish in time will keep working regardless? hint hint)

I gotta say that I had a lot of fun playing with the new features. BYOND 500 offers so much in the way of adding graphical glitz, and it was great to come up with cool ways to use it. Not just animate(), but the other new elements (like matrices, transform, the color var, etc.) open up all kinds of neat effects.

And to the reviewers (at least in regards to my entry); you're all pretty dead-on in your assessments, and I *am* working on the game's less-than-ideal aspects.

One thing that I want to point out, though; the creatures in the game offering very little threat was a cheap way to heighten the sense of "playing the villain"...lol They're all more or less innocents that you're slaughtering just to gain power. :)

Oh my god, I'm so freaking happy, I'm really glad all my time and effort got through to the judges, and that it payed off. Great job to the other entries as well, I'm glad my other 2 favorite games got 2nd and 3rd place. Also, all the reviews were well written and made a lot of sense. I appreciate that some of the little things were noticed, like the hints, the sound effects, and the lightning. To the judges:

@DarkCampainger: All of the review was nice! But I really appreciate that you noticed all kinds of little aspects that I took time to add in (and that you were one of the few who managed to beat the hero).

@SuperAntx: I like your review, the negative points made a lot of sense, especially considering some of it I was initially planning to put in the game (but cut for time). Aerial combat was planned, and a sword was planned as an alternative way to attack. Some of the aspects might've been easier to understand if the game wasn't so short, and players could get through the rounds easier. Fighting and defeating the waves of soldiers gave you more max health after, so it's worth fighting them as much as possible (which is noted in hints). Your health being tied to your flames is more noticeable when you have many skills, because all your skills scale to the size of your flame and pretty much any action you do will release flames.

@Writing A New One: I hope to resolve the issues by having a full fledged release, more bosses, better difficulty curve. One aspect I was debating on was having lives, but the game is short, and at the time fighting the hero was really easy for me, and I didn't realize people would have so much difficulty with him.

Thanks for the reviews, thanks for the contest, thanks for everything else. Considering the positive results, and the negative points being basically things I expected, I hope to make a full resale release with much added/fixed.

Oh, I also want to thank all the people who donated to the prize pool, it really helped me keep motivated throughout the contest. Initially I wasn't sure about having so many placed prizes, but thinking about it now, I really like it, and it kept me motivated.

6th Place xD Im down with that, Great Job guys ._.

Yay! Thanks for running this contest guys, and congrats to Megablaze...you deserve it :)

Also, in response to whoever noted the frustration of getting stuck on corners in my game, I feel your pain. I didn't really notice it at first because I would tend to move diagonally most of the time, but I think it wouldn't hurt to shrink the player's bounding box by a pixel to help avoid that.

My project was so good it is't even mentioned here.
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I do seem to be a little late..

And looking at the results:

-One of the reviews suggested improving the interface and I decided to make a quick update to the game. :D

Anyway thank you for the prize, C&C and putting together this contest.