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[Touhou Fangame - Unexplained Crisis]

I'm pretty bad at bullet hell games, but this game's generally fun. My biggest issue is the lag spikes it gives me (not just a little frame drop, lag SPIKES with an S) with too many enemies and their bullets onscreen (bosses aren't much of a problem). I got a little lag spike in stage 3, one in stage 4, and a bunch in stage 5. My computer isn't a potato, so my issue shouldn't be my computer. Is this fixable?

Other small things: there's just a few misspellings, a possible bug with one of the bullet patterns for Vivit in stage 4, and I'm worried stage 4's and maybe stage 5's backgrounds might be a little distracting for me to dodge the bullets. Overall, solid game (without the lag spikes)!

(For the record, I have no problem moving up or down in focus mode. I'm using firefox)

MatthewPopsicle responds:

Hey! Thank you so much for checking out my game and enjoying it!

My apologies for any lag or just bad things that happens here, I haven't properly make people with a wide range of devices with different powers testing it (Mine is a windows 10 upgraded to 11 laptop) maybe next time i'll try to consider optimising the game I will be making more..
I have no possible solution for fixing the lag, but it'll be great once someone finds a way, lol

And about the Vivit thing, I didn't properly plan out one of her attacks so I just lazily cobined two of them and it constantly turns into point items, whoops.

Also, if you are using firefox, does the game seem to run in 20fps? I know it's a problem for scratch/turbowarp sometimes

[Hi Stepford]

This game, though simple, brings me great joy. Absolutely amazing.

[HYPER JUMP]

Simple concept, but fun to play! Not sure if not having music is a downside, as there's a lot of sound effects that indicate the obstacles (which need to be clearly heard). One problem: color contrast. The instructions (though simple and also in the description) are very hard to read because it's black on a navy blue/purple BG. And I have trouble differentiating the blinking yellow orbs with the blinking pink bombs (maybe the bombs can be a lil darker or more saturated), which has cost me a few rounds. Other than that, it's a solid game!

[GansWare]

Pretty neat game, especially when made in a short amount of time! I think the switch to each minigame is just a tad too fast, and it would help for a short instruction right before the minigame (like in the warioware games).