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Happy Holidays

Everyone did an excellent job. It was pretty awesome to work with Bob and see everyone's work as it came along.

Lol

Excellent Job Guys!
Ash, you should be proud!
Happy Birthday man.

I now Know how...

....to #1
Thank you... this may come in handy in the future. Like knowing how to Dispose of a body.
Happy Clock Day

Guy Go Squish!

CLOCK DAY
That was actually slightly amusing.
Need a way to increase difficulty as your progress

Bout Time Damn It!!!!

Again thet Stats were fun, The tardyness was a great addition.
It's finally good to see this thing up. too bad it's the last...

Upgrades Would Have Made the Game

Fun Game, fun concept. With the Larry World you have built, I find this a very suiting game. I had a great time, but part of the game became rather frustrating.
The graphics were very nice and smooth So I have no qualms with them.

McSweeny's speed was a real hurt in this one. When getting barrels, he was slow, but in a more urgent situation involving Doug, McSweeny was not any faster. I found this to be very frustrating, especially when doug was getting much faster in the later levels. Before I could even get McSweeny to the door, doug had already taken down a half of a barrel or more.
Dougs dodge speed increased as well, but the McSweeny's attack speed did not get any better with better weapons. it got to the point I wasn't filling more than 2 barrels just to keep Doug isolated for easy victory. Doug's stamina increased greatly as well and if not prepared with a much stronger weapon by at least round 7, I found myself spending half a day or more beating the hell out of the drunkard.
This makes me want to call a bit better balance to the upgrade prices.

More upgrades would have been nice.
Perhaps some Hired help to either help retrieve barrels to take out Doug would have been a very nice addition. Perhaps even a chance to give yourself a shameless plug and have us hire Larry himself. I can think of some amusing animations of Larry trying to take out Doug to toting barrels that are twice his size.
Either some help or some sort of defenses would have been nice. Rat traps to snap on to Doug's toes to slow him down, doors on the warehouse to keep him out for a few seconds longer, barrels of crappy ale conveniently left our for him to run in to to give a few moments before he gets to the good ale stock, anything would have been nice. For challenge certain things having to be replenished or repaired each day would have done the trick.

The pour meter, it got fast, really fast. I understand this to a point, but after a certain speed I began to ask, what the hell, is McSweeny pouring himself a mug as we go along? Although we can use this idea to our advantage. Let us, as McSweeny, drink some ale and make it a trade off. The more ale we drink the faster the bar gets, but give us attack power to bring down Doug in return, that sound fair, doesn't it?

I would also like to have seen more barrel upgrades. Bigger barrels would have been a nice touch. Giving us the option of trying to serve more with out refilling so much would have been very nice. Perhaps some new barrel salesmen, the wizard giving us single day enchantments for "endless" barrels of ale for a price.

Although I have given a long list of things here I really did like the game, and I do look forward to seeing more from this world and it's characters. A sequel to this would be nice.
I hope you take in to consideration my suggestions for a sequel if any.

At first when I heard the bells, I was thinking that this would be a typical cover of the song, and then the music started and I damn near blammed it. It was kind of muddled and made no sense. It was toned down as if was suppose to have lyrics. Then the lyrics started in. Really tied the thing together.

Nice save. Good way to jazz up a classic

Names Bothers Me

Just a little thought.
With a name like "Gates of Oblivion" I was expecting something a little more brooding. This is a name that makes me think of dark super solid powerful stuff.

As for the actual song, I like it, good solid beat, a little repetitive, but good. You have the in some places and it feels great, and you have it absent in the places where it is not needed which is even better.
good job, very nice.

pretty nice

I enjoyed it, although I think you could have made the voice a little more raspier. Still pretty finny.

Yeah, now thats quite a bit better.
You've taken care of a lot of the flat colors. Have a couple more levels of lighting. Have some stronger and more expressive line art. Gotten more to the sky with the clouds and the slight gradient. You got your picture more squared I like the floating box you have for the text, very comic bookish. Yes much better indeed.

As for things to work on. the color of the sky seen through the handle of the basket doesn't match the rest of the sky. you may want to make it a little lighter so it isn't as noticeable. The root coming from the ground should be a little more horizontal dues to the viewer's vantage point. I'd work on the shadows cast by the objects/characters/textures in the scene. Lastly I wouldn't copy and paste the clouds so much. One or two copy/paste will work, but not all of them.

Good job keep it up.

My quick thoughts are for you to reinforce the details. Details like the webbing on Spiderman's Suit, or the Hard lines of Doom's armor. Also some more stronger and dynamic posing would have been a good choice.

Now with some more in depth thought.
I think a bit stronger composition with a more dynamic pose would have really helped the impact of the overall feel of the piece. I think something with a little more of the body showing would have been good. Perhaps doom holding Spiderman off the ground by his neck and seeing Spiderman struggling to get free.

The anatomy could use some work. Its not too far off, but it could use some more consistency in places such as Doom's hands and arms. Also Doom's neck and head seem thin and small compared to the rest of the body. I also notice that Peter's right shoulder is very small and puny. Spiderman may be a little on the smaller and scrawny side, but he does have some good solid muscle in the right areas.

The coloring could have been much more solid. Although it is breaking about par, I think you could have pushed your color pencils to have a bit more rich color. On that same hit I would like to mention some lighting and other effects. I don't see and definite or solid light source. I also see little to no shadows or shading. You really need to get a strong Light to case some nice hard dynamic shadows on the characters. IN that same sense this would give you the most awesome opportunity to play with Doom's armor had its reflectivity,

As I mentioned in the quick thoughts I think you should really get the thicker lines on the costumes. This also applies to the line work.
A couple minor changes and this could become a pretty bad ass piece. At the moment you have a start and I will pleased to see you come out with more comic book related pieces.

before even reading your description I was thinking this was watercolor

I like the over all subject matter. Although kind of strange, it is something that appeals to me as a person.
I especially like the roasting of the birds.

The color and lighting are pretty good too. I would have liked to see some stronger shadows in a couple places like the guy's arm and the bed frame in a couple areas as well.

Although I think you could use some more practice in the medium, I think you have a decent amount of control over it already. You seem to have an excellent grasp of color theory and how to use shades other than gray and black to get a much better sense of shadow. As mentioned there Are a couple of areas I would have liked to see some stronger shadows.

The background, although simple, is good. I really think the watercolor was perfect for this in the simple sense of adding texture and breaking up what would normally be a flat gradient.

This carries the essence of a dream very well. It has that lovely mystical feeling about it that could only come from a dream. A little bit of nonsense and randomness such as the candle lifting the balloon, the fire breathing balloon that looks like a fish and the birds getting roasted by said fire.

Excellent job man. I hope to see more like this in the future.