Project Glitch

[h1]«Project Glitch»[/h1] Пародийный симулятор бета-тестера, в котором высмеивают игровую индустрию. Мы будем работать в «Game Dev Inc.» и тестировать видеоигры на баги и недоработки. Геймплей: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aluo_uK_1_Y&t=12s В этой игре мы будем играть в игры! Извиняюсь за тавтологию, но это именно так. В роли бета-тестера нам предстоит пройти три проекта-видеоигры, найти и задокументировать все ошибки. Уникальная игра с простым, но забавным геймплеем. В это стоит сыграть. Вас познакомят с самыми распространенными багами, ошибками физики и оптимизации. [u] Вы можете почитать другие отзывы и подписаться на наших кураторов. Добро пожаловать! [/u] [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/25737869/] 5 minutes of game [/url]

The premise of the game is really interesting and cool - I’ve found the process of testing my own games to be engaging and often surprising and amusing, and I love the idea of tasking players with doing this. However, I found that Project glitch failed to engage me. The game didn’t ask enough of me. It mostly told me exactly what to do, and when I succeeded It was not due to my actions or intentions. I was a character following a script - not an agent who makes decisions, solves problems, or explores the game world. All this might not have been much of a problem if I found the game to be consistently funny, but most of the jokes fell flat. I suspect this is because they were centered around the game being buggy - which was totally expected from the beginning, thus didn’t violate my expectations. These gags were usually too predictable to be funny - follow instruction, bug happens, follow instruction, bug happens, follow instruction… and so on. The game would be way better if it was a scavenger hunt, rather than a series of levels which the player is directed through. Fans of Goat Simulator and similar games might find Project Glitch funnier than I did. And developers in search of interesting projects and new ideas might be able to glean some interesting ideas from it. But it's not well designed or polished enough for me to recommend it to most people.

The idea of experiencing a game from a playtester perspective is one, that made me curious. Sadly, this one can't keep up. Instead of checking the gameworld for inconsistencies and problems, that might arise of oversights and unexpected player behaviour (maybe even with occasional updates, that fix some errors and implement a few new ones), this game is rather a lineup of minitasks with each ending on a bug. While the pricing is a reason to keep expectations low, being led through short levels, where instead of a victory screen the reward is a bug report, does neither feel satisfying as a game nor as a testing simulation. Also the graphics make me motion sick. This could have been good. But to get there, one would need to create the whole game anew.

Необычный симулятор. Нас нанимают в компанию для тестирования игр! Все, что надо делать - тестировать игры. Они состоят из множества уровней, на каждом выполняем определенные задачи пока не наткнемся на баг. Затем сообщаем о нем и переходим на следующий уровень. Интересная концепция. Еще не встречал симулятора бета-тестера. Уровней много, геймплей разнообразный, скучать не придется.

It's a nice game but there happens to be a glitch/bug where when you get to the roof lvl and you get up there and you look at the credits and go backwards you'll be able to go through the yellow wall and you'll fall down and you're out of the map and you can do almost what ever you want! proof: http://prntscr.com/imp249 http://prntscr.com/imp38h http://prntscr.com/imp3fy

Not really what the game promises : Your job is not to 'find glitches', it more about 'to find glitches that are planned to be found'. But somehow not in a bad way. There are still "unplanned" glitches that don't matter with which you can play a bit though, but the game is indeed about 'the common glitches you would have to deal with as a dev' as if you would make a list, and let the player experiment this list. To sum up : the game isnt what you expect by reading the description but it's still quite interesting or more like a reminder if you're also addicted to find glitches in the games you usually play

Pense que seria un juego de exploracion con toques de humor, pero consiste en ponerte ante un objeto con el que tienes que interactuar para ver un bug y repetir, la musica taladra la cabeza al cabo de un rato, al margen de eso las imágenes hablan por si solas asique que cada uno judgue.

Disclosure: I know the author of this game, slightly. Ran into him recently and he mentioned he'd written a game; I asked to playtest it. He offered to give me a free copy; I declined and bought one for $0.99 through Steam. I like the idea of minigames-within-a-game. I love the premise of finding purposeful glitches. As it currently stands, it's more of a few minigames with great graphics than a single coherent game. Read on for details. I tried clicking on the receptionist, the fountain, the pictures, some of the extra doors, some of the people and objects upstairs, and the two empty desks and the empty conference table upstairs, in the hopes of being able to interact with them; nothing. Would be really cool if some little stuff happened in the process, especially funny things, whether or not those things end up affecting the game as a whole. More texture. More things to discover. Suggestion: once the player gets upstairs, let them choose one of the empty desks to sit at; once they click on the computer (any part of it), then switch to a job-assignment screen and tell them to go to the end of the room and watch the video; then come back here to their terminal after each bug-testing run. My favorite part of this game so far is the landscape in the trees-and-cows-and-mountains section. I love the openness and the layout and the fun feeling. Very pretty and colorful. Nice textures. Leaves probably wouldn't be falling randomly from a blue sky, but they look nice. I didn't like how scripted (to use someone else's review wording) the action was. Yes, I could wander around at will a la Minecraft; no, I couldn't try things freely a la Minecraft. I didn't like being assigned specific actions to do until a glitch showed up. An improvement to this would be to have a list of things to do (vacuum leaves, put apples into basket, sweep) and several tools to choose from, and let the user wander around in any order and see what happens when they use the "wrong" tool to do something. It's pretty enough to want to wander in for a while - and I'm wondering what that bench up on the hill is for. Loved the look of the fountain. The glowing gold was neat but random - would be better if you could collect it here and use it elsewhere (like in the mine, or with the cows). The dirty fountain was funny. My least favorite aspect thus far is the extremely slow movement. Felt like I was plodding along instead of moving at a normal pace. This was especially annoying when trying to vacuum leaves, as I couldn't get anywhere near leaves before they hit the ground. I figured from the beginning of that section that it'd likely be vacuuming cows instead (as the glitch) but my first few attempts to vacuum a cow (or a leaf, or a tree, or anything else) did nothing. In fact, in that section I was doing nothing until after a few minutes a cow-vacuuming was finally successful, which was boring :( The zombie apples were funny but nonsensical - and as a programmer I can see the appeal of showing a self-counting bin - but this bit would be even funnier if you were to feed apples to a cow or a horse or if the bin were to change and look zombified at some point. Take the humor a step further. Wasn't sure what the point of the platform-jumping area was. Other than one jump that made it to a nearby platform, I always fell down and then reappeared at the initial spot. Thinking that perhaps the glitch would show up if I were to jump in a different direction, I turned around and walked off the side or back of the initial platform. I fell down, down, down... looked up as I fell and saw the platforms receding above me... but no glitch report. I didn't fall into a void, as in Minecraft; I didn't fall through to somewhere else; I didn't bounce. I just stopped. At that point I could "walk" but everything looked the same on the ground, so there was no apparent point. I tried hitting "F" to file a bug report and was told there weren't any bugs to report. Could not seem to get out of that part of the game with "Q" or ESC or anything; had to quit. Seems to be a gameplay bug. Another minor glitch: if you look down at the ground, you can see the shadows of the items you're holding, such as the leaf vacuum, but you yourself don't cast a shadow. Would be nice for the character to cast a shadow. I took a bunch of screenshots with my Mac, forgetting that Steam has a different screenshot procedure, and can't seem to upload the screenshots I took to the game. Happy to send those directly to the author (you know who to ask to get my contact info, or LMK here and I'll send them via that person). Would like to hold off on my recommendation until the author has had some time to revise and improve it. I know he's somewhat new to this field and I can see has a lot of great ideas. I really did love the fields and cows and the humor in that whole part of the game. So - great start; it has a lot of potential. Please first speed up the walking(!!!!!) and add some more variety/flexibility and I think you'll have something. As it is right now, it's not quite a recommendable game yet - feels a little too incomplete and disjointed. But very close. Update and improve it a bit and I'd feel happy recommending it.