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Before anything else... thanks for ALLOWING comments. Too many times have I seen some artist go on some interesting tirade only to keep me from (hopefully) adding something to their thoughts.

It's hard for me to articulate, but I am happy to see a person who can think with such complexity over something as small as a flash game. Both in regards to the ideas you put into it at the time and afterwards in light of its backlash. However you feel about your product or its reception, I really hope you are satisfied with you. You show some rare traits that make you a worthy human being. If you ever doubted that, I would just like to reaffirm it.

I have a few thoughts in regards to how you felt about smart vs. stupid content. If ever again you want to make a statement that might piss people off but seems important to you, remember you can go to the magical world of the internet- where we can't count on accountability. If a lil' snot on xbox live can use the net to protect him, someone with a brain should use it too. Also, don't feel bad about dumb or lowbrow jokes. If everything is too cranial, people can lose focus and thick meaning becomes counter intuitive. Plus, stupid humor can make people happy. When you can make someone feel happy about your message, they will feel more able to support your message. A shit joke to boost morale can be a good reminder that the issues you bring up are not hopeless and something can be done with them.

I really like your style. Even though it is commendable that you can see its problems, do not hate it. The polarization caused by your ideas simply shows that people are willing enough to acknowledge that it is something truly worth getting panties bundled over it. Something people can love or hate without thinking just gets ignored. Something that people can argue endures longer and can get more people thinking about it. Like P.T. Barnum said, "I don't care WHAT you say about me, just spell my name right". Whether you want to sell big or create pervasive ideas, the same rules can apply.

Ugh, it seems I need to pay attention to my own advice and make shorter comments...

TL;DR w00T! nutcasenightmare RULZ!

Just finished watching the video for The Mochis 2012. I wasn't too disappointed with anything at first but when they got to the part where Reimagine comes in my jaw dropped. I thought they captured the absolute worst parts of the game. I don't know about you guys, but I'm really pissed off. Ah well. No point in getting all fumed about it. Anyways, are you going to make a sequel or not? Why weren't you there at the ceremony?
P.S. I love your limericks.

You really hit the nail right on the head. The biggest compromise in my opinion was all the memes, but it all boils down to your decision and why you thought about putting it there, you must have known that it'll repel people as much as it'll work on others. And about the cheap jokes, not everything needs to be intelligent in order to be funny. I think you can be ambitious enough in terms of technical details as long as it doesn't completely ruin the idea of the game. Just a little balance will do. It's refreshing to see someone openly criticizing themselves like that, and I'm sure I'll see the effects of that in your next work which I'm looking forward to. All the best, sir.

whats your next game or project going to be anyways

and one question ARE YOU A BRONY? cuz i am 2!

i liked the trilogy you should make the next but called "imagination :thegame:"with both :the game: (fall of the platform) and reimagine gameplay

Man, oh, man. Someone replied to my comment and it happens to be my hero. This is an honor. Um, well, I guess you're right about the problems. I was pissed at the Tea Party level, more than I was at BP Oil Spill, but it was an interesting recreation of the politicians and whatnot. You could've added more, but I can't blame you for fearing what others would think and well the jokes were really cool. Normally I hate memes, but the meme about bacon seriously changed my thinking, even if it wasn't necessary. If you create another sequel (please do) you could just try to fix these problems and discover more about our current lives you can make into a game, or more specifically :the game:. Good Luck! :)

I agree with alpha- I think you can write very well. Anyone can write a meme though. If you want to stand out as an intelligent person it's best to avoid that cesspool of advice animals and impact fonts.
Instead, I suggest you keep refining your witty sense of humor in future games, but use something more dignified as a reference point and you'll probably get more dignified reactions.
That said, I'm super jealous of your abilities as a game maker and wish you the best of luck with the FGS contest.

Please do another dumb thing. I probably enjoyed Reimagine the most because it did all the thinking for me that I didn't want to have to.

Big fan, meng.

Why do you hate it? It was amazing. The satires never stopped being shoved down our throats along with the consistently frustrating level designs, quirks, and parodies of everything that ever showed up on Youtube with more than a million views, or got moderate media attention. Most people cannot pull that off, but you sir have managed to turn the entire media world into one big joke for me, and I thank you for that.Your originality with each level design and objective is nothing short of astounding. If you hated The Game because it was difficult to finish, then take your time. You don't have to be in a rush. That's what deadlines are for. If you stopped working on this series, so many people will be disappointed. Lord knows I was when I found out about some of my favorite flashes.

I love all your games, but I just want to say; Gap Monsters has the potential to become a hit as a mobile game/app - have you ever thought of that?

I thought RTG was good but it definately had room for improvement. If you ever decide to make another sequel of some sort, just tone down the memes and add more satire. I think you hit the sweet spot with Replaying, sure it had memes but they were balanced by actual humor.

I got completley bored of these games about halfway through the first one.

BUT I PLAYED GAP MONSTERS LAST MONTH AND MAN WAS THAT COOL!
I think I put it like #2 on games of the year or something, Maybe #1, I can't remember- Kingdom Rush wasn't in the voting.
More focused games like that, please! I think your talk-show lite-political low-hanging-fruit humour is completely boring and available from a million other people at a dime a dozen.
Then, like you said, the internet memes and HILARIOUS CELEBRITY BASHING just drilled it down even deeper into that grave. In my opinion.

Gap Monsters was smarter and more interesitng than anything you'd said in that other game.
I think you should make more focused games, whether in the context of what they're about OR in how they work.

the first time i hated this game because it was frustrating!
but then i retried it, and it wasn't that frustating after all!
also.. it was a pretty good game, probably the best of the series!

reimagine is like a horse that someone shot and left outside during the summer. Every time it keeps getting worse. I commend you for making the first one a great game that was out of the norm, but I condemn you for making shitty sequels and continuing to make such shitty sequels.

How could you guys hate Reimagine? It is a marvelously creative game with humour based on our cruddy lives and its hilarious. Without this change, I couldn't imagine this game even being nominated for ANYTHING. Sure you could've done better, but this was your first crack at this sort of thing and its my favorite flash animation ever and that's saying something. Please make another since it will make some of our lives better and it will give you another shot at the "community choice award." Please don't give up now after finding your passion: humor, creativity, and sound (OK the last one isn't really something HUGE to be proud about but its something.) Even if your games are short, it doesn't matter since your games are PURE AWESOME. Please continue on with :the game: and the world will be a better place. Please consider it. Thanks. :)

I liked this game and hated gap monsters.

To be honest. I liked all games. The first 2 ones were simple and funny but with the last one you did something else and that's something else rather than ONLY falling down...otherwise it would be a bit boring if you had 3 games that were completely the same right?
Anyway,like the game and i hope the next one will be just as awesome as the other ones!

I agree. I liked the first one you did. It was a simplistic game. Reimagine looked like you tried too hard and it was mostly about internet memes. It was complete and utter shit. I hope you weren't fishing for a compliment with this post because I'm not giving it to you. I'm just trying to give you what you really need to hear, and that is; You need to go back to the simplicity of the first game if you ever make another :The Game: game. You should go back to where the game used to be about just jumping and falling off of a single platform. The mechanics and repetitiveness of that game is what made it what it is today.

Yeah, I know this post isn't about Gap Monsters, but I really liked that one :-) Good luck with the Tank Awards!

sexy!!

This is why you should allocate all of your focus to getting Four Horsemen on my phone.

Amen to what Alpha said.

You're a fantastic writer.

Either way, you got your point across. Whatever it was.

Just put it behind you and don't be afraid next time. It's how this site was started, being controversial and just bugging the masses.

Gap Monsters was mind blowing, original, and probably my favorite of yours. I really did like imagine, because it made me laugh and I didn't find it at all frustrating.

The only reason I wrote this is to waste your time.

Oh wow, that's a shitton of typos right there in my last post.

In my opinion, the first two games were superior to Reimagine. Purely because they had a charm the Reimagine was lacking. The redundancy of the level structure with the first tow was brilliant and they all related (and made fun of) social issues of the time. With Reimagine, it came out as a platformer that lacked the quirky charm of the first two games.

That's just my two cents.