Cattle 101 - Sample Library

Full playthrough here: https://youtu.be/RhSdsfFQx5g This is a very informative game where you get to learn about some beautiful cute chonky creatures. There's even a little quiz game on the different breeds! You can definitely tell how much work went into this and it's pretty neat how much information this game contains. If you want to learn some fun facts you should check this out.

Alright, first things first, this not a finished game or even a complete demo, just a small sample of some game content. This means there are things that are missing, unfinished, or broken, of course. That said I believe this game will bring a lot to the table and I am excited for a full release. [b]CONS:[/b] - as others have mentioned if you tab out at any point it breaks the UI and you have to quit out of the game and restart (in my opinion a forgivable offense for an early sample like this) - There are some places where the text has not been properly formatted to fit within the designated text boxes and will trail off forever. - many unfinished elements (duh :p ) - no Highland cattle breed included yet (gimmie fluffy cows pls!!!) [b]PROS:[/b] - great visuals - nice background audio - smooth character motion and UI interactions - fantastic (future) source of knowledge and a learning tool for those wanting to know more about cattle keeping - cute cows!!! Overall this game has a lot of potential and I can't wait to see where the devs take it!

"Cattle 101 - Sample Library" is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, "Cattle 101 - Sample Library" is a software application that vaguely and badly attempts to provide an educational toolset for identifying and grading cattle so they can be killed and eaten. There's no actual gameplay. It's also evidently not popular amongst people on Steam seeking to learn more about cattle, given this application only ever had two concurrent users, and that only happened once. Moo. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop. There's no loop here, no true interactive feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played". This has misleadingly been launched in the "Games" section of Steam instead of the "Software" section. This is a common mistake for developers who are new to Steam, or don't understand the difference between games and software which isn't a game. It seems this software published incorrectly as a game is simply lack of experience/knowledge of the correct process. Here's a link for the process to publish non-game software on Steam: [url=https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithPublishing?issueid=925]Steam Developer Help With Software Publishing[/url] It's unfortunate this process was not known about/followed, resulting in a software application being published in the wrong place. Publishing things which aren't games on Steam in the Games section as games is misleading to gamers and somewhat harmful, because it pollutes the Steam marketplace and takes away visibility and market exposure for genuine game developers who do the right thing and make games for gamers. There are no gameplay loops in this software, no "gameplay", no meaningful game like interaction. It's a software application and as such has no merits as a video game for gamers. Because of this, I cannot recommend this non-game software as a game to gamers.

I have learned more than I ever could have fathomed about cows.

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[h1]Before I played Cattle 101 Library Sampler, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

very informative