BQM - BlockQuest Maker-

What an enormously boring, shallow, and incomplete feeling game. Every level is so small and I've yet to find an official or community level that was even close to fun. This absolutely should not be called an RPG or an "RPG maker". Also, translations are lazy and feel like they were just thrown into Google Translate...if that. I got this from a friend and still want my money back.

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Block Quest Maker (BQM) is a fun little maker, though as a community-driven platform for content, your mileage may vary how fun you find it. When you first start up BQM you are greeted with a few options, build and explore among them. by selecting build, you are given the freedom to use the tool set provided to make your stages right away. After play-testing your stage, you can then publish it for others to play. Publishing costs coins to do so, and you can select how many, if any, coins you want to charge for others to play your stage. You gain a portion of that fee as other users play your stages if you charge coins. The build mode comes set with a limited set of blocks, and two monsters in which to build your stages with. It does provide you with all the traps and items though, so you have the full arsenal at your disposal. While there aren't any additional floor block to buy, there's only a few specific types of walls to buy which is just an extra if you want. Most of your coins for build mode will be going to buying extra enemy types in which to populate your stages with or extra decoration blocks. You can also buy skins for your character. Explore mode is where you play other users stages. You can get coins for playing other stages, even free stages. If a stage allows players to leave a gravestone, there's a chance of collecting a few coins at each spot; however, you have to clear the stage to keep the coins. Also, the game awards the player for clearing X-number of stages with a nice chunk of coins that increase for each higher amount of stages cleared. There are a number of stages under the "official dungeon" selection that may be a good idea to play through before other stages or even creating your own. These stages act like a tutorial. in order to beat many of them you have to familiarize yourself with how the objects interact with each other and how to manipulate the tools. Some even require you to think out-of-the-box in how to solve the asked puzzle or utilize the environment. As a rare item, there's a meat pick-up that allows your little avatar to move one space on the explore screen. This will give players extra coins, and even equipment, when you collect enough meat to reach a bag or chest. Sometimes the meat will spawn in an area you can't reach, or may get stuck getting to, so it may not be wise to always try for it. Overall. BQM is pretty neat, though there is a dearth of new content from day to day. BQM is a community driven game for content to play, and the community seems on the small side right now. The number of hours you play is pretty dependent on how many of the published stages look interesting and if you want to spend the asked coin, if any, to play said stages. It will also depend on how interested you are in the build mode, arguably the main draw of the title, if BQM is for you. The creator mode is easy to pick up and use, though you have to play around a bit to figure things out. even with the limited block options, it's still really satisfying to create a stage. $10 isn't a bad price for what's on offer, but I can see how some reviews felt burned by the cost-to-content amount. Pick up BQM on a sale when it goes 50%-off or more and it will be well worth the cost of entry.