Requiring registration (or Facebook / Google / Twitter account) before seeing anything is a major fail for many entries.
If some sort of account is indeed necessary (rarely the case), please give us single click demo account, or at least show us screenshots / videos from the actual gameplay.
Tried playing a half dozen games. If this isn't a lesson in teaching users how to play your game I don't know what is. Before releasing a game you need to silently watch someone else try to play your game for the first time and take notes. All those cool features you added are pointless if they can't even figure out how to do the first level. Tank world is a good example. Wow does it look cool, but the instructions show up on the screen for just a few seconds and then go away leaving you to get frustrated and quit.
I agree - I entered a game in the contest and was very worried that it wouldn't hold up to the rest of the entries because mine is very simple in comparison. I tried playing ~12 of them and couldn't believe how complicated many of them were!
An impressive list... though the first one I actually enjoyed has been this impressively well designed one quite a ways down: http://sketch-out.appspot.com/
I ran into the same problem in Chrome. It seems like a font issue relating to the OrbitronMed font. I wonder if lots of computers have a messed up version of that font, or if something else is going on.
The font problem seems to be localized to Chrome on Windows machines. Chrome on my Macbook renders the font correctly. The page still renders unusually slowly on the Macbook though.
Some of these games (e.g. Gates of Olympus) explicitly mention Firefox 4, so the stable build of Chrome might be "too old."
Just tried it in all 4 Chromes, they all look fine to me. Identical to FF4b8.
What's odd, though, is it seems the background and image borders load last. Which is crazy - load your macro styles first, then the two-hundred-odd thumbnails.
I am of the same opinion. It sure gets the point across that the page is about games. But for how long you can tell somebody spent working on those graphics, they just don't do it for me...
I DO dig the trophy with the joystick though.. it's mainly just the little spaceships and guns that look out of place.
If some sort of account is indeed necessary (rarely the case), please give us single click demo account, or at least show us screenshots / videos from the actual gameplay.