TomFulp's game Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ridiculously Challenging]

I was feeling all boss as I conquered the jumps between red dots and jumping down and avoiding the red dots, but then I hit a grey dot and it took me back several screens and then I was like, "Ok, this IS ridiculously challenging."

JudoSandman responds:

Lol, thanks.

[Tidal Wave]

Jeez I must have totally missed this game back in 2006. Trying to rescue that guy was INTENSE!

tomthinks responds:

Haha. Did you make it to the end? I can't believe I made that 6 years ago.

[Bakos' Ruby Data Mining]

Well I for one had a wonderful time playing! I was digging and this snake started chasing me, and I hit a rock wall so I tried to go the other way but then I hit a rock wall and I started to panic but then I dug through an opening and narrowly escaped, only to eventually die later but that's life.

Pikanjo responds:

OMFG! SO EXCITING!
Thanks.
-Richie

[Puzzle Blast]

I really like the concept but I experienced the same issue as Fuqlknewit - I played for a good while without ever getting any blocks down the right side, so I could never complete a row.

Also I would recommend a key that speeds up the drop of the blocks, like in Tetris. Pressing spacebar could make the blocks drop a lot faster, or even drop instantly to their final destination.

ElectricFruit responds:

Hi Tom, thanks for playing the game (love the site by the way).

I apologise if I have misunderstood your comment (and Fuqlknewits) but blocks not falling down the right hand side of the play area should not stop people completing lines. If you press Z while touching a falling block with your ship you can "lock" on to it and move the block in to the correct position (using the arrow keys). When locked on to a block you can also press/hold the down arrow key to speed up the rate the block falls.

I would love to hear if the above two things make a difference (or if I have misunderstood your comment) as I'am eager to fix any issues people have with the game.

Thanks again for playing :-)

[Instant Football]

In the last couple days in Rwanda, we headed back toward the airport. On the way, we visited some orphans and widows, doing missionary work like a cop eats a doughnut. The woman my group met with was 51 years old and had an amazing, tragic story. Her husband was a fisherman and died drowning when she was in her early twenties. By then she had two kids, but her parents and parents-in-law disowned her. She couldn't afford the house she was living in, and had no where to go, so she lived, quite literally, under a mat for ten years. The neighbors took pity on her kids some nights and gave them food, some of which they smuggled in their shirts, so that's how the woman survived. There was something about her owning the house they'd lived in, but not the land it was on, and the man who owned it refused to part with it. He was planning on leveling the house, but since it was government-built, it was illegal. When we met with her, she was in the process of getting the government to step in. My favorite part was that she let us take the bench in her house, and pulled down some mats for herself. One of the mats, when unrolled, revealed a giant spider. I pointed it out, expecting her to whack it with a shoe, or ask me to. Instead, she slapped it, bare-palmed, it curled up, and she brushed it aside. My sister would have run to Uganda at the sight of that spider.

The day before we left the country, we had a one-day "retreat" for the World Relief staff. It was based around the five or six sections of the Lord's Prayer. We put out large sheets of paper with the section name at the top, then went around and wrote prayers that fit the section for World Relief and otherwhere. (Otherwhere passes spell check?) It was a fairly powerful experience. Afterward, it began to rain pretty hard. I walked out into it, getting soaked. The Rwandans thought I was crazy, which amused my team and me.

The day after we got back from Rwanda, I had tickets with my Microsoft team and Swood to see the Seahawks. We were to meet at a bar in Seattle, but I managed to leave my wallet in my bags, still packed, at home, and my 16-year-old face couldn't convince them I was 24. Our tickets were for seats literally the furthest from the field, the nosebleeds of the nosebleeds. We lost the game, though had we made the hail-mary field goal we would have won or gone into overtime. I don't remember.

When I went back to work, everything had changed. The two remaining members of the original project I was on had left to go work with my old boss. We had one new member, and two or three more on the way. Our code base had moved to an entirely different system. Seriously, I'm gone for two weeks and the team falls apart.

Within two weeks, I had to do my commitments. My boss helped me with those, and midway through, I realized, I'm not going to do these. It made setting them a bit easier, when then and there, I decided I was going to quit my job.

Obviously the next question was "What now?" The only thing that came to mind was teaching high school math, so I set my course, and looked for colleges. The only college that fit my schedule was SPU. For UW, I'd have to wait until the next October to apply, and start in spring of '13. Western, which would have been my first choice, had no Seattle satellite campus, and I don't want to leave my church. When I talked to HR about leaving Microsoft, she recommended CityU, but my sister is there.

A few weeks later, at one of my one-on-ones with my boss, he told me, as a friend and in no official capacity, that I should start looking for a new job. I started talking to people about my decision, outside of work (and with Athena). My Rwanda trip team (we're still meeting once every two to four weeks as we did pre-trip) was all very supportive, everyone saying I'd make a great teacher. My psychiatrist said she hears people frequently say they want to quit their jobs, and she always tells them to keep them, but in my case, that I should go for it. The only two people I told that weren't thrilled were my mom and Luke's wife--both teachers. My mom

[Pico Radio]

This is so much fun! I'm excited to keep checking back and listening to additional lineups. If you have it set up to match individual art submissions to individual songs that has such fun potential too. It was cool to see the Super Slumber Party art during the Super Slumber Party song but then when Poundcake came on I wanted to see that crazy picture of Egoraptor by AbominableGod. This is what happens when you already spoil us so much!

Unrelated note, I have poundcake on my iPod and I listen to it while running 5Ks. It always boosts my mood because I imagine what the other runners would think if they knew a guy listening to a song about poundcake was catching up to them.

deathink responds:

Yeah it is set so that some of the art submissions line up with the music ... skip to song 20 :D
Definitely adding the picture of ego in the next update! And I am real glad you like this Tom!

[Spiner game]

It would be cool if shooting an explosive barrel would also blow up the guy standing next to the barrel.

[Untouchable]

I just had a ton of fun playing this. Like some other reviews I was confused with how the upgrade acquisitions worked but other than that everything was really well presented and it had a great flow through the different waves and bosses!

hch2 responds:

thanks tom! glad you liked it.