Funny!

Fun = Good design.
Frustratingly hard for all the wrong reasons = Bad design.

It is depressingly easy for such games to be made with enticing graphics but Bad design. A few are gems.

Weird. I played Escape the Phone Booth a week ago and I had trouble figuring out what directions I can face. If there were arrows then I would've had less trouble.

Anyway, it's pretty good as a quick sketch. If you want your lines straighter however, then draw a little slower. Helped me a lot in art class. XD

I wanted it to look like that. Trust me, if I wanted those lines to be straight, they'd be ramrod straight.

There was one game I played, called Posttraumatism, that has arrows, but they suck. They keep disappearing when I try to click on them, and they don't actually indicate all the possible directions I can go in and look in, which caused me to miss several important items and areas, even with a walkthrough, and I got so frustrated I didn't even finish.

Oh, gosh. I just played another game and I see what you mean now. I've been clicking on that damn lock twenty times and it still didn't unlock. Drove me insane.

Dude, 'Kobayashi Maru' was an brilliantly appropriate reference. <gives you a trophy>

Yaay, a trophy!

[obsessively clicks on every square inch of it just in case there's some crucial hidden item or clue on it]

HA! Actually, I do remember playing a room escape flash game once. Messed with it for about a minute before going, "Okay, this is the kind of thing which will likely frustrate me to the point of ripping my scrotum off" and watched Arfenhouse again instead.

*Giggles!*

Yeah... I try to play these every time I find a new one... and OMG, do some folks need to learn the difference between challenging and annoying!

"Most of your average adventure game experience [is] spent carting a truckload of miscelaneous knick-knacks around patiently rubbing them all one by one against everything else in the hope of hopping onto the train of logic unique to the game's designer. For every decent adventure game like Monkey Island or Grim Fandango, there [are] five excess baggage-fests driven by moon logic." - Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw

Heh! Sounds about right.

Pixel-hunting is not a puzzle. It is a poor, cheap excuse for puzzle design and its proponents should be slapped repeatedly until they click one exact square millimeter of the "stop hitting me, please" button.

When I have to resort to using the "Tab" button to find clickable areas in a flash cartoon, then yeah, it's a really terrible game. =P

That's another thing! A lot of these games deliberately (I assume) disable Tab-key highlighting, so I can't even resort to it! Which, y'know, wouldn't be so bad if they didn't make the games so unfigurable...

Unlike most other point-and-click games I've played, the Wallace and Gromit-branded ones by Telltale actually include that as a FEATURE! (not Flash, commercial software)

Ugh, sometimes, yeah. I really dislike the "click multiple times" ones.

Yeah, because how are you supposed to figure it out?

"Did you get the green key?"
"From where?"
"The curtain."
"There's no green key there! I opened and closed that damn curtain 20 times!!"
"Oh, you have to open and close it 21 times."

Dismiss such feebleware from your mind and go draw funny comics!

So many awesome references!

THAT'S NUMBERWANG!!!

Heh heh heh. Room escape games have gotten a lot better since I drew this and I like them now!