The Carcass

До этой игры я считал самой душной игрой Songs of Syx но после игры в это я понял кто истинный король душноты. Но не смотря на это сама задумка и история просто ахуенные, мне прям зашло

Сам лор і стилістика виконання,неймовірно сильно сподобались..Так,потрібно покопатись аби зрозуміти як грати,заяви про ШІ взагалі не хвилюють,я навіть не зрозумів,де його тут використовували) Незвичайно і дуже соковито,на мій не дуже професійний погляд,10 із 10

Досить непогана гра. Звісно, треба виділяти не одну годину, щоб зрозуміти лор й те, як тут все працює, але гра атмосферна. Те, що використовували Ai, то якось без різниці. Не бачу нічого поганого в тому, що одна людина, яка робила гру, використовувала Ai. Є звісно, те, що я досі не зрозумів. Наприклад, як саме діє мененджмент ресурсів. Бо бувало, що декілька разів підряд просто натискаєш ті ж самі клавіши, щоб збирати кальцій чи біомасу і стає нудно. Або як саме відкрити деякі активності, де треба певні ресурси, які не знаєш де брати. Скоріш за все я все це зрозумію через деякий час гри

creepy and wired as hell

A promising game.But not now.

Нудна та абсурдно незрозуміла, в спробі видати щось оргінальне видали ніби нейрослоп

The Carcass is an interesting game, though needs some polishing and severe menu reformatting. I want to break this down a bit though, as this game is pretty controversial in its AI use and disclosure early on. PROS: As a lovecraft fanatic (I've had the pleasure of reading nearly all his works) I love the atmosphere and concept. The lore aspects feel fleshed out enough to keep me interested in the game for a time. Scenarios, while following the same mechanical path of press a key, are interesting to read and varied enough to feel fun. The concepts are a cross between Cthulu, haunter in the dark, shadow over innsmouth and the dream worlds of unknown kadath. They give a relatively fleshed out picture of what is going on inside this great carcass and how to navigate and survive. As a CDDA and Dwarf Fortress guy, I love ASSCII games with minimal GUI's. I find you can pack a lot of bang for buck into this style of game: simple to code, easy to maintain and complexity arises from the detailed story and intractability with the world. This is where I find the game shines: as its really a city builder with you as the main decision maker. When you harvest too hard, the Carcass responds. When it notices you, it feels like all the work you put into resource monitoring and use come into focus. "Stress tests" with warfare are interesting as well, though this needs clarity and depth added to it. Overall, I would say its a passable city builder/ manager with a wicked cool story arch. CONS: OK, this is where I get nit picky: the AI use to write the story is obvious. The game organizer needs to go through the files generated of text, and edit them to better flow and feel less cut and past-y with the sentence structure. This might be controversial to say, but AI use is OK in my mind if a human is there to edit and approve at the end. It feels like quality was checked at the initial start of the game, and then that was the final check for all text. It NEEDS human oversight. Second, the games mechanics are too simple, especially in combat. It is essentially a numerical game with some stress involved in resource management. Ultimately, things need to be re-balanced to account for more nuanced delineations of the fighting forces. Why list like 8 of them if they are just resource hogs and you can accomplish the same thing with a ton of little fighters? Now, onto the city building aspect: the map seriously needs to change in game to reflect buildings, additions and forces. I am not saying add a complex GUI, what I am arguing for is to add ASCII symbols in a more cohesive manner that reflects the changing environment of a city builder game. I want to see a little ASCII symbol pop up for that first food vat I build. I want to see on map where things connect or regions boarder. And when I mass farm a region, I want it to reflect that in either color tone or ASCII key symbol. Something that gives me more granular information in a visual sense. Menus need a major overhaul: buttons in buttons is not fun to navigate. Separate them into distinct tab systems by menu and use ASCII pictograms to more cohesively generate menu separations. I want to see the Carcasses eye looking at me when I go into a harvest option menu and I am at 100% attention. I want to see what these "star gazers" look like photographically when I navigate to diplomacy with known species. These little things, while making the menu significantly larger, would be like reading stone pictographs. It would be eye catching and break up the monotony of text on text. Conclusion: an OK game that needs a moderate amount of polish. The ingredients are all there though. With a bit of effort and human intervention in key areas, this could be on par with CDDA in my mind.