Diorama No.1 : Blocked In

Nice experience, although I think the best scene is the first one, where you can walk around the room and look out the window. THE BLOCKS!

"Diorama No.1 : Blocked In" isn't a game. Real games require "gameplay" through loops and interaction, both of which are missing from this "art project". Rather than functioning as a game, "Diorama No.1 : Blocked In" is just a software app that hosts a low-quality art display... the "artist" behind this non-game even [i]directly admits it is not a game![/i] Yet they published this in the Games section of Steam anyway... doing the wrong thing, on purpose, for profit. Completely unethical. This kind of store pollution happens when a failed art student gets rejected by all the real galleries will host their work, so they dump it on Steam Direct for a hundred bucks so they can pretend they're real, published artists. I don't believe Steam was intened to be a coping mechanism for art school dropouts. While games are certainly capable of being art, art is where the pinnacle of creativity meets the pinnacle of craftsmanship... and this art school dropout stuff has neither. And importantly for us gamers, this isn't a game. 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. An obvious example of a game loop would be in games like Forza, where you drive a car in a circle. If you're faster and more skillful than the other drivers, you get rewarded for first place, then you find yourself back at the starting line for the next game loop iteration. Even open world/sandbox games like Minecraft feature a core game loop where you search for materials, use them to construct something, which rewards you in terms of increasing your progression and allowing you to repeat the next loop to get more and better materials. Those are game loops. This software has no such loop and no interactive gameplay/feedback. It isn't a game and it cannot be "played" in any traditional sense. This has misleadingly been launched in the "Games" section of Steam instead of the "Software" section, which would be more appropriate for software apps and virtual art demos. This is a common mistake for developers who are new to Steam, or don't understand the difference between games and non-game art exhibits which aren't games. Nobody looked at the Mona Lisa and said "wow, what a great game I just played". See my point? 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 non-game "art experience" being published in the wrong place. This pollutes the Steam marketplace and takes away visibility from genuine game developers who actually make games for gamers. Without a game loop or interactive feedback, this is just store pollution in the wrong category. It's an art demo, not a game, and I won't recommend it to any serious gamer. Despite having no up-front cost (now), this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at [b]only 7 concurrent viewers[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away.

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These VR micro experiences are actually priced accordingly compared to a lot in the marketplace. Both Blocked in and Marchland are essentially just single rooms with different views, but I have been waiting to play them for 2 years since never being able to get them to work on our Oculus DK2! Both experiences are overflowing with prescence, even if for only a few minutes of your time.

垃圾啊 要不打不开 要不就黑屏 闹呢

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Kind of like an interactive painting, but without much interacting except for moving around the space. It's nice to just boot up and sit and listen to the radio or the game music as blocks slowly fall in and out of frame, casting shadows into the room. $1.99 isn't too bad for all the love and care you can see went into this Diorama. Curious where #2 is though. May look into buying #3. Keep up the good work! Loved the little box diorama that came before the actual Blocked In room.