Jawbreaker Game review

Hi all,

I am not sure if this is what the games forum is for, I have been using this forum for a long while now and I know there are some cool people here that can give helpful honest advice, criticism and I would be be grateful if I could call upon that today. That being said I would like to ask, if you don't mind, if you would consider giving me some feedback on a game I have produced. More info below:



While I have been redesigning my site I have re looked at a game I produced in Java called Jawbreaker (first found on my mobile phone at Uni). I really enjoy the game, both on my phone and on the online.

I was wondering what other peoples opinion of it was. Is it any good? rubbish? any and all thoughts would be cool.

I plan on redoing this in C# in the very near future so it can run as a desktop app and use web services to update it scores online if wanted.

Java Jawbreaker can be found here

Thank you for your time and thoughts.

Not too bad. Here's a few critiques.

• I strongly dislike popup boxes. Can't you just use textfield input?
• The popup box with the score is... bleh. "gimp your game is Over, you scored: 392". The text can take a bit of cleaning up, don't you think? It's a little thing but it bothers me. Same with the text on the bottom: "If the game didnt load you need to download Java, Click here."
• The fact that you can't click between circles. I want to select some circles, I don't want to click exactly on the circle. I'd make the processing rectangular - similar circles form rectangular forms. Click anywhere in the rectangle and it highlights. You have the outline when you click rectangular, so it can't be too hard.
• Those circles... bleh. I like my circles to not show jagged edges.
• The bar up top. It has a nice gradient on one half and just gray on the other. And the two halves are slightly (1-2 pixels) mismatched.

It's not bad though. Wouldn't spend my spare time playing it but also don't dislike it.

The last bit of advice: I hope you're doing this only as a learning project, or you're already getting something (money from ads?) out of it. If not, don't hope to - this game has been done time and time again before, and a bit better (no offense), so you have nothing new with which to attract people.

thank you for your comments.

It is purely for the fun of building it and learning how stuff works that bit more.

I hear what your saying about the tweaks and will give it some good thought.

Thank you again