Slime Salad

We've had at least one GOTM that was non-OHR.

What, again? Yeah. This month, we have Alice is Trapped featured on the home page and a tasteful selection of games for you to vote into our March slot. While you're here, you should nominate a game for next month's poll, because come on now. Alice is Trapped Attack Fish Chronicles Volume I: The Ome...

There's some really great touches in that video. I love the way the text box expands, and the voice-pitched beeps are great, too.

The oldest example is the koopa troopas in SMB. The red ones turn when they reach an edge, but the green ones will walk off.

Color-coded enemies with slight behavioral differences can expand your bestiary without requiring a whole new design.

What about Metroid? I have played most of the side-scrolling metroids, but it has been long enough that my memories of specific enemy behavior is fuzzy. Most of the enemies in Metroid are unintelligent. Many of them are completely unaware of you: There's the wallcrawling enemies, who move in one di...

Presumably. They had to know they weren't going to win. To clarify, though, King is not suing Stoic for using "Saga" in their game's name. King is suing Stoic for attempting to trademark a game with "Saga" in its name. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/208943/Candy_Crush_maker_K...

It's a publicity stunt.

Very nice! If you're looking to improve the enemy AI a bit, I'd recommend having them start their attack early if you're running up to them. This would lend a little variety, since at a glance, it appears many of the enemies are dealt with by "run in, swipe, run out" tactics. You'd still r...

It was always two nominations, except when a game was up for vote the month before.

But if we've only got one game nominated, I'm fine just making that the game of the month for February.

I realize how much this would increase the script's complexity, but you might want to space the characters out on the ladder.

Climbing down while another party member is beneath you is still problematic, though... Maybe it's not worth worrying about.

2400 baud ought to be good enough for anybody.

As long as you're increasing the color depth anyway, you might want to see if you can do some antialiasing to make "OHR DEPOT" look less like "OHR DEDOT."