SHADOWBOX: Mausoleum of Natural History

Great idea, I can't wait to see how it develops! The QR codes are probably best replaced with in-game text bubbles, they just interrupt it a bit currently

Un progetto molto promettente da tenere d'occhio, specialmente se si è appassionati di paleontologia. Non vedo l'ora di scoprire come si evolverà questo vero e proprio museo virtuale. Essendo in accesso anticipato, chiaramente, i contenuti sono ancora pochi ma la speranza è quella di vedere aggiunte costanti e significative. La cosa più affascinante è che l'intero progetto è stato ideato da un vero e proprio paleontologo, con tanto di scansioni 3D ad alta definizione di fossili reali. Per certi aspetti mi ricorda le vecchie enciclopedie virtuali degli anni '90/'00, come ad esempio Eyewitness: Dinosaur Hunter, ma con la possibilità di vedere fossili realistici piuttosto che le vecchie illustrazioni.

A vivid blend of science, education and exploration manifested as a text-rich (and object-heavy) walking simulator awaits you here! If you like museums, virtual exhibitions, natural history and/or dinosaurs, such an experience is definitely not to be missed. It is truly a virtual museum like no other – quite literally, as you won't find it in the real world... And guess what? If you ever had that itch to get impermissibly close to a museum piece (say, a dinosaur bone or just any fossil) and rotate it in your hands, now is your chance to go wild (albeit virtually, of course)! 100/100 prehistoric teeth fossils!

I would LOVE to see more interaction with the Jurassic Period. I have always enjoyed learning about the Dinosaurs since 8th grade in Middle School. But I also loved to learn more about the other periods of time as well, like the period known as the Middle Pleistocene, where they had the Mammuthus, or Cave lion (Panthera leo spelaea), Woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta). the Mastodon, the ground Sloth, the Short-faced Bear and so much more. Seeing this virtual museum brings back my child hood to want to learn again what I had lost growing up, the curiosity, the eagerness to want to learn and read more of such interests. Please keep adding to this wonderful exploration of history and I'll keep jumping in to learn more than what I was told in school. Thank you :)

"SHADOWBOX: Mausoleum of Natural History" is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, "SHADOWBOX: Mausoleum of Natural History" is a software application that presents a virtual paleontology museum, but it's incomplete. I mean, when a developer doesn't even understand the difference between a software app and a game, what chance is there that they'll be competent enough to finish what they started or abide by their commitments under the Early Access requirements? Yeah, none. 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. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at [b]only 2 concurrent users[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away.

That's a wonderfull idea to make a digital museum of prehistory for everyone around the world to enjoy! I know it's still in developement but I ould love one day to see the translation to other languages as not everyone knows english that well. Right now I rate this at 9/10

Музей как музей.