Future Futures - Command Z

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Future Futures - Command Z is a free VR experience. It worked on my HTC Vive and Index system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. Has 8 studios, the seventh one has the viewer moving on rails through several rooms, might cause motion sickness. All modern digital art. Has teleport movement. Try it, if you like art.

Command Z, sanatın ve sanatın sunumunun hızla dijitalleşmesine katkıda bulunmak amacıyla kurulmuş bir işbirliği alanı olarak hazırlanmış bir sanal gerçeklik galerisidir. Future Futures, New York City'nin Aşağı Doğu Yakası'ndaki Işığa Atla sanatçı misafirliği sırasında geliştirildi.

Future Futures - Command Z is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, Future Futures - Command Z is a software application that is another godawful "art gallery". Are art galleries games? No, no they are not. This crap software is a badly made virtual experience where you can look at art from various art school dropouts who were so bad at art that local art galleries had to take out restraining orders, so they were left with only two choices... go back to getting my order wrong at McDonalds, or paying $100 to publish godawful "art" on Steam as if it was a game. Guess what they chose! 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.

Really neat art tour with some interesting concepts for further thinking... this needs some recognition.

"Future Futures - Command Z" предлагает глубокую стратегию и увлекательную историю, где игроку нужно управлять станцией в будущем. Графика и атмосфера игры создают плавное впечатление, но некоторые механики могут быть избыточны. К сожалению, уровень сложности иногда кажется слишком высоким, а выборы не всегда приводят к ожидаемым результатам. Тем не менее, игра выделяется качественным сюжетом и разнообразием миссий. Для любителей стратегий это值得一试, но с осторожностью.