Booklet's Big Story

Расслабляющая игра, в которую можно позалипать с другом

Thank you Barvo Studios for showing me this story. This was really fun! A classic 3d platforer, controls and movement felt very smooth. You guys should feel proud of what you made here!

"Booklet's Big Story" is basically a tech demo from a failed game dev startup. It's a very poorly made third person 3D platformer where you control a book and you run around a library trying to find a place to belong. Not, apparently, as part of a successful game development team. Whimsical narrative in games is fine if it's backed up by a solid, professional look and feel, and all the polish we expect from such games, and that's all absent here. The game has a bunch of mismatched assets that you'll observe as you travel inbetween magical book worlds as an empty story book. And that's how we know the developers don't know about the Dewey Decimal System, because no book is going on a shelf in a library without fitting there. Visually, the game looks pretty bad (and decent visuals are a must, gaming is a visual medium), we can be sure this is not an asset flip. This is because the game assets look so bad, no self respecting asset creator would publish them. That's a fail. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets of any level of quality usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too. Insultingly, the developer insists that you should play this with a console peasant children's toy gamepad instead of KB+M. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're designing games for. It's the responsibility of the developer to ensure the game runs well on the platform they're selling it on, with the primary peripherals that PC gamers use. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. Even as a free game, this couldn't find an audience. With a peak of [b]only 4 players[/b], it's clear the Steam community took one look and walked away. They literally couldn't pay people to spend time playing this. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? What's the verdict? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. There's no financial cost up-front, but you'd still be spending your time and a little hard drive space on a product that's far from the best. There's thousands of better alternatives on Steam.