
Jacob: an evidence-based puzzle
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Are you serious?! I cannot comprehend why there are so many bad reviews to this game. Maybe I'm a little biased, since the developer named the game after me. To be honest, if not for Jacob, I would not be alive. After playing it, my nervous system deteriorated to the point where I could not move, making it impossible for me to get to my job at the World Trade Center. If I made it there that day, that would have been awesome. Thankfully though, I didn't. Good game?
This game is trying to be a social experiment? It's not very fun.
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Jacob is an educational game developed by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, with the goal of broadening general knowledge of the concepts of sociology through the media of video gaming. What a terrible idea. The hamfisted attempt to "Just make a game about Sociology" works out pretty badly. The idea is that you have to build a ladder and climb as high as you can, but in possible one of the most clumsy analogies ever made, you're given a random start and random pieces, to demonstrate that life is unfair. Okay then. The technical implementation here is shoddy, with pieces that drag and drop inelegantly, and an obscure game design that you just have to work out (perhaps the lack of a tutorial is another hamfisted metaphor). This trash isn't making sociology better, it's just making gaming worse.
[h1]TL:DR[/h1] [i]Sociological experiment that creates sociopaths.[/i] [h1]The Good Stuff[/h1] +Social experiment game, don't see many of those [h1]The Ok Stuff[/h1] =I wasted 10 minutes of my life. Could've like... taken out the trash or cleaned dishes in that time =Let's be honest here. If you've played this after the time of this review being posted, you played it to see for yourself how bad it is. Don't worry, I did the same thing and I have no regrets bigger than that decision... except maybe breaking my neighbor's window with a baseball... but that's beside the point entirely. [h1]The Bad Stuff[/h1] -Turn left? Turn right? -No time limit -"...it's evidence-based, using research on societal inequalities to determine game difficulty." What evidence? Our pain and suffering? -Who's Jacob? Is he hot? Is SHE hot? -Grammer issues everywhere -I've asked too many questions and I played a whopping 10 minutes of this... why? --No instructions. --I've spent more time writing this review than actually playing the game. This is a double minus because I'm sobbing over my life choices and how they got me to where I'm sitting right now... in my parent's basement eating blueberry pop tarts and drinking apple juice ---Maybe this game did succeed at being "A Game About Life"... [h1]The Truthful Hard Facts[/h1] [table] [tr][td]Acquirement Method[/td][th]Steam store[/th][/tr] [tr][td]Price Paid[/td][th]Free to Play[/th][/tr] [tr][td]Length[/td][th]???[/th][/tr] [tr][td]Rig Used[/td][th][url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/thisgrouplinkwasavailable/discussions/0/1473095331487872526/]Potato.[/url][/th][/tr] [/table] [h1]Check out my Steam group for more Reviews![/h1] [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/thisgrouplinkwasavailable]STEAM REVIEWS GROUP![/url] [h1]My YouTube channel![/h1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4BQSDGExl23rHcd9ML2mRw?
Jacob: bilimsel bir dokunuşa sahip ücretsiz ve basit bir bulmaca oyunu/deneyimi - kanıta dayalıdır ve oyunun zorluğunu belirlemek için toplumsal eşitsizlikler üzerine yapılan araştırmaları kullanır.
A very good game i really enjoyed the building aspects of the game
لعبتكم زبالة امسحوه بالليز your game is garbage あなたのゲームはゴミです لا عمرك تسوي لعبة مره ثانيه
the purpose of this game is to get as high as possible, but i think you have to be high af to enjoy this game. nonetheless 8/10 game would build ladder into clouds again.
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