Méli-Mélo : L'odyssée de la crème de marrons

[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url] The developer used talentless, offensive AI slop for peripheral marketing materials and for the soundtrack.[/quote] From the Gaming Campus School in Lyon, France, we have "Méli-Mélo : L'odyssée de la crème de marrons." (something something search for chestnut cream, whatever that is). Students here were clearly mistaught that it's fine to release obsolete 2D games in the 3D era. 3D graphics cards became uniquitous in every single gaming PC ever since the 1990's when the ATI Rage and Voodoo3 hit the scene. Any professional development business that sees a prospective hire who doesn't know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid 1990's with the Voodoo3 and ATI Rage probably isn't going to give them a job. Bad for the students, and what is this delivering for us gamers in the 3D gaming era? There's so much wrong with this it's hard to get ones head around. This is a crappy 2D pixelcrap platformer featuring Youtube non-ebrity streamer bros from France, so it's largely just in-jokes from some French clickbait Youtube show. It's remarkable any educational institution would set this for the student project, but here we are. Needless to say the platforming is bad, the artwork sucks, and of course it's not a full game, just a student demo for Youtube clicks. We also have to question what value there is for gamers on Steam when institutions flood the store with low quality 2D video game homework assignments... sure, it might make the students feel good about themselves, but this has no benefit for gamers who have to wade through this stuff to find professionally made 3D games. There is no English support here, but it isn't necessary. The language of bad games is universal. This is a mobile app... it doesn't matter if this hit Steam Direct before the app stores rubberstamped it, or if it failed to even reach the app stores. This code was written for the weakest possible gaming platforms and has to be critiqued as such... it isn't going to offer a modern PC gaming experience. That fact by itself is plenty to disqualify this from being recommended to gamers on Steam. We don't spend thousands building gaming rigs so that we can pretend they're iPhones and play iPhone games and mobile apps. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. Insultingly, the developer used a bunch of GPT AI slop for the Steam store page and marketing material and audio tracks. AI slop is an insult to gamers everywhere, it's trained on copyrighted material without permission. Worse, if they had no qualms about using it here, there's no telling how much of the rest of this product is also vibe coded or made with AI slop... and this is from an educational institution. That's worse!!! Let's talk about pricing and the actual value this has for gamers. It would be unethical for students to try charge money for their homework assignments, so you don't have to pay any money for this. But you'd still have to spend your time downloading this, and "time is money", as they say. There's the other problem, too... as a student project, this wasn't made for gamers. There's no requirement for them to polish and balance the game properly, all they need is something to show the faculty so they can get their grade and move on. Let's once more ask... why is that good for gamers? It's obviously not delivering a solid product. Yet here it is, on the store page, and here you are, reading my review for a student demo that's going to waste your time. While genuine amateur developers who made real products get ignored because they have to compete with this stuff. In some ways, this deluge of student projects on Steam is harmful to everyone. A peak of [b]13 concurrent players[/b] (according to SteamDB) for a "free" game is a disastrous public reception. Out of 130 million potential players here on Steam, almost nobody was interested. Even though this is "free". That level of rejection speaks a lot for the quality of the game. This student project/tech demo/glorified homework assignment provides no Steam profile benefits, no +1 to your game count, and little value to gamers (because it's just a small, unpolished student project), so I can't recommend this over the thousands of full, professionally made games on Steam. The use of AI slop is a direct insult to gamers and real, ethical content creators and artists everywhere.

Volgarr the Viking n'a qu'à bien se tenir, non plus sérieusement le jeu est vachement cool surtout avec le mode speedrun qui vient épicer le tout et monter le degrés de difficulté bien comme il faut mon gadjo. Le crâne luisant de Carlito qui balance des kamehameha c'est MA-GIQUE. Les références dans tous les niveaux on apprécie grandement. Merci pour cette crème de marrons. GG aux devs !

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Super jeu, excellent travail ! Bravo Carlito et aux étudiants de l’école Gaming Campus 🥰

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Bigflo, Oli ve McFly & Carlito, çılgın bir 2D platform oyununda gizemli bir kestane kreması kavanozunu bulmalı! Her seviyede kahramanları değiştirin, minik boss'larla yüzleşin ve hızlı bir koşuya çıkın!

Bon jeux dommage que les contrôles sur pc soit difficile a prendre en main et qu il soit non personnalisable