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[quote][b]This is an asset flip[/b][/quote]
[b]But what is an asset flip and why is it so important or even bad?[/b]
[quote=Wikipedia] An [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]asset flip[/url] is a type of shovelware in which a video game developer purchases pre-made assets and uses them to create numerous permutations of generic games to sell at low prices. Such games tend to be viewed by gamers as uncreative, and as diverting attention from less popular high-quality titles. Asset flips have been noted to be a problem on many online distribution platforms, especially Steam. The Nintendo Switch eShop has also been accused of allowing the sale of asset flips. [/quote]
Asset flipping is a term applied to the practice of buying or using basic, pre-made/pre-rendered assets in video game development, without changing them or adding original assets around them. Often used as a pejorative term, and generally consider games made using poorly considered, flipped assets to be shovelware.
For example, say you're a beginner who wants to develop a game in Unity or a similar development engine. If you're a novice, you might buy some assets or a demo game from the Unity Asset Store to use as a foundation for building your first game. Assets like this can also help you have a pre-made world, so you can focus on other areas of expertise, like game physics or enemy AI.
Using assets in this way is fine. In fact, using pre-made assets to make your game is also fine, as long as your game is actually playable. If you've ironed out any glitches, created some nice atmospheric effects, and your characters and NPCs work in harmony, then there's no reason you shouldn't market your game.
However, just throwing a bunch of assets together that don't work, or simply renaming a demo intended as a foundation, in order to just make a game quickly and then market it with no thought, is when asset flipping becomes a nefarious practice.
Basically, there is nothing wrong with using or buying a pre-built asset to use in games.
[b]But in this case it is nothing more than an asset flip in which GDNomaD used GameGuru's First Person Shooter Construction Kit and filled the maps with additional GameGuru assets. [/b]
Since you don't need any programming knowledge to use GameGuru and it's just a graphical interface (GUI), you can't really call it a development.
GDNomaD also didn't mention in any way that GameGuru assets were used here and are therefore "sold as their own creation", which it simply isn't.
Sure, the game costs just under $1 and even less when it's on sale, and since there are trading cards, some players buy the game for that very reason. The masses make the profit and for no real work put in, every amount raised is a profit for GDNomaD, which should not be supported.
[b]Aside from that, the game is just awful.[/b]
The first 4 attempts to start ended in a crash. There is no menu and no setting options. Neither for graphical options let alone mouse or keyboard settings. Here too, the sensitivity has to be done via the DPI control of the mouse and the standard key assignment has to be used, which I absolutely hate.
There is no explanation of what exactly they are and so without testing you don't know that, for example, the left shift key is for faster running. Some of the required ones are explained in the game, but it still shows that everything is reduced to the bare minimum and there was actually no interest in developing a good game.
If you still really want to play it, I advise you to save the game continuously because it keeps crashing. Preferably when loading. I can't even say exactly how long the game will last because of all the crashes and AFK.
Review date: January 15, 2024
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