
Local Paper Small Town is a 2-player co-op puzzle game about spreading happiness around a quirky papercraft town. Team up with a friend, using a physical newspaper and VR, to discover Smalltown and its charming cast of characters by communicating and relating between both formats.
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Local Paper Small Town is a 2-player co-op puzzle game about spreading happiness around a quirky papercraft town. Team up with a friend, using a physical newspaper and VR, to discover Smalltown and its charming cast of characters by communicating and relating between both formats. One player explores the town in VR, solving puzzles by moving cardboard cutout characters around, entering codes, and working with the second player to fill in their newspaper crossword puzzle and deducing each character's story and place in the game world. The second player, equipped with the PDF of the Smalltown newspaper, reads and scans pages for clues that may help both players advance the game state by solving puzzles in VR thanks to their shared understanding of the characters, similar to a collaborative escape room, but with more narrative flavouring. * * * How to play: In this two-player experience, one player is equipped with a newspaper from a fictional Canadian town, and the other player explores a papercraft version of this town in virtual reality. Please find the newspaper PDF in the game folder. -This game is for two players: one with the newspaper, one playing VR. -The game lasts about one hour, and is best played in local co-op with a speaker for both players to hear the audio. -Be sure to communicate well with your partner to solve puzzles, discover character stories, and complete the game. -VR player: In addition to teleporting, you can grab characters and move them around to solve puzzles. -Newspaper player: The game was designed to be played with the newspaper player not seeing the game screen. However, if you prefer to have an easier time, you could check what the other player is seeing in VR. Have fun in Smalltown! * * * Created as a mixed media semester project at the Cologne Game Lab. Nominated for the Ubisoft Newcomer Award at the German Developer Awards 2020.
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Local Paper Small Town — кооп на двоих с VRом и газеткой. Ахтунг: для игры нужен комплект VR. Концепт прикольный, один товарищ в VRе ходит по картонному городку, а второй ему зачитывает газету о происходящем там, для решения пазлов. Пазлы по сути упираются либо в словесные, либо в перемещение иконок персонажей по городу. Визуал приятный, музло норм. Перемещение чисто телепортом. Игрушка небольшая, но для дружеской компании на поугарать вполне пойдёт. Ну и да, ссылка на газету в игре может не срабатывать, так что можно её напрямую скачать с сайта разрабов: localpapersmalltown. tilda. ws Как итог: есть VR и друзья (тульпа и виртуальные не в счёт)? Качайте. Благо оно бесплатно. 8 газеток из 10 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1276828227 [i]P.s: если этот обзор был для Вас полезен ставьте лайк, а также добавляйтесь в друзья и подписывайтесь на меня как куратора - [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/28776273/] Обзоры онлайн [/url][/i]
'Local Paper Small Town' is a very clever co-op game in which one person plays in VR and one (or more) reads the newspaper from the same "small town" in the real world. Movement is done via teleport with no other options and no turning, so you will need to play standing, or in a swivel chair. It is also worth noting that I used an Oculus Rift to play the game without issues. When it comes to the newspaper you need to read you can download this as a printable item to make it more fun, or you can simply view it as a PDF (but it is far more fun and easier to download and print out). With its cardboard cutout people and cartoon town, the game looks amazing and is full of lovely little things to find if you look in the right places. It's mostly about solving word puzzles and putting people in the right place, but there is a nice storyline to follow along with so you never really feel lost. But as it says at the start of the game communication is key. It is worth noting that you will only play through once, but play with the right people/person and you will have a great laugh here. It reminds me a lot of 'Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes', only at a much slower, more relaxed pace. It looks good, has a great storyline and is great fun to play and as an extra bonus it is 100% free! But personally, I would have paid money to play this.
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Local Paper Small Town is a free VR 2-player co-op puzzle game about spreading happiness around a quirky papercraft town. It worked on my HTC Vive system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok, was understandable. There is no background music, as far as i know. Needs someone else with you in room reading a newspaper to you, directing your actions in-game. Maybe you can use teamviewer program for someone to remotely be the newspaper person. The VR movement mode is Teleport. This was a college coding course project. You have to get the PDF paper from the website on store page. CONS: Does not work with Index controllers. Try this game, if you like puzzles and local Co-Op games.
This was a tiny gem of a game, with very clever co-op VR mechanics, quick little puzzles, good immersion (considering the concept of cut-out characters and a tiny town!), and a fun bit of indie rock. Print out your newspaper and head into Smalltown. You won't regret it.
A fun, short experience and I'm glad I tried it! It's really fun to play with a close friend or significant other :)
Local Paper Small Town, kağıttan yapılmış ilginç bir kasabanın etrafına mutluluk yaymayı konu alan 2 oyunculu, ortak bir bulmaca oyunudur. Her iki format arasında iletişim kurarak ve ilişki kurarak Smalltown'u ve büyüleyici karakter kadrosunu keşfetmek için fiziksel bir gazete ve VR kullanarak bir arkadaşınızla ekip kurun.
[h1]Before I played Local Paper Small Town, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
Local Paper Small Town is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. This student project follows through on a unique game idea... now, I said unique, I didn't say "good". You need two players, one with a VR headset and the other looking at a PDF you have to download. The PDF is a newspaper, like a clue book, and the players need to talk to each other to progress through the game. It's all a bit tedious, really. The graphics aren't great, low poly "paper" art shaded assets, and of course the other player just gets a PDF of a newspaper... fun. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. It's VR exclusive, and that shows the developer failed to understand the most basic axiom of VR game design... if the only cool thing about your product is VR support, your product is not cool. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable, or something you might want to spend your time on. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. 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? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.
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