Specter Inspector

This game makes me feel like a cat on aderall, in a good way.

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Kurulum sırasında cihazınızı bozma riski taşıyan tehlikeli hayaletlerin üstesinden gelin. Specter Inspector, MASAÜSTÜNÜZDE açılır pencereler olarak çalışan bir eğitim simülatörüdür.

Fun game, maybe add a little 2 frame animation to the main for walking

Spooky.

"Specter Inspector" is a student project from Digipen. One of the first things students should be taught in game development is that 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid 1990's with dedicated 3D cards like the Voodoo3 and the ATI Rage. But the students were deliberately mistaught that's it's okay to release obsolete 2D games in the 3D era of gaming... certainly any professional developer seeing a prospective new hire who doesn't even know about 3D gaming probably isn't going to give them a job. Needless to say if an educational institution taught me incorrectly on purpose, I'd ask for my money back. This is a very poorly made "interactive desktop" game where popups appear on your desktop as part of the game, ostensibly so you can defend your desktop from malware by dealing with the popups. Wow, it's like I've gone back to the 1990's and installed a bunch of browser toolbars and now I have popups constantly. This was not an experience anyone actually wants. So yeah, this is a terrible idea for a game, and implemented badly, but the worst part is the students at Digipen paid money to learn how to make games and they got taught to make this instead, perhaps as a joke from the faculty. 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. Now on to pricing and value 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. So much for the matter of pricing. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 4 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Given that this free title won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? Pass on this one. There's no immediate financial commitment, but there are thousands of more compelling games on the platform that will give you a lot more enjoyment for your time.

I almost gave this a positive review because it's attempting a unique concept but that concept is largely designed to annoy the player. I could have given it a pass with square hitboxes but the hitbox that only occupies 2/3 of your character is annoying when your field of view is so limited. Finally once they introduce the EMP mechanic you realize this is more or less a puzzle game that is as annoying as possible to execute.

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Cute lil spooky game and pretty creative!