IMPACT

This feels like a mobile game designed around a cash shop. The construction cost for the exact same building increases the more you place. All the sudden your houses need 40 rocks + 10 steel then 50 rocks + 20 steel and that is where I stopped. This is not a fun game as you can't gather enough resources in a reasonable amount of time. Identifying craters does not provide enough 3He to speed up the process. You need to capture people with a fun game to identify craters not alienate them with terrible game design.

I can't understand what benefit an AI would have learning how humans play this game. You're making me wait 20 mins for the first upgrade with nothing to do? I guess it's at this point where most people uninstall and that's sad because it's literally the first building upgrade. You would think to train an AI you would want to do it efficiently not grudgingly. I'm not going to sit there clicking the same 3 images of the moon while I wait either, I'm pretty sure any AI model that comes out of this game will only understand human frustration and not how to actually build on the moon.

Also... das Spiel basiert darauf das die Materialkosten um seine Basis zu bauen regelmäßig angehoben werden damit der Spieler Krater identifiziert um Helium 3 zu generieren. Mit dem Helium 3 kann man dann die Produktion der benötigten Materialien beschleunigen. Soweit so gut. Irgendwie muss man die Spieler ja dazu bringen sich die Images anzuschauen um die Krater zu markieren. Das Problem ist dabei das man nicht alle Krater identifizieren kann sondern nur die die ungefähr die Größe des Markers haben. Man könnte viel mehr beitragen wenn der Marker auch Krater miteinbeziehen würde die kleiner bzw. größer wären. - sehr einfach gehalten mit expliziten Anweisungen was zu tun ist - einfach gehaltene Grafik - keine Grafikoptionen - rein- rauszoomen nicht möglich - Gebäude können nicht gedreht werden - keine Optionen für Steuerung Was mir fehlt ist der wissenschaftliche Kontext, man könnte sehr viel Informationen über unseren Mond in das Game stecken um spielerisch Informationen über unseren Begleiter zu erhalten. Aber die Idee für das Spiel ist brilliant, wenn auch die Umsetzung sehr sehr einfach gehalten ist.

Is fun but basic Yes is real. Is funded by ESA https://activities.esa.int/4000142966

[quote][b]Warning: Third Party Account[/b] This game requires you to create a third party "Hochschule Darmstadt - Scientific Data Collection" account... there's no valid reason for this in a PC game when SteamWorks is available. This is often done to harvest private data and profile you, with potential sale and transmission of your private data to third parties. The developers will probably argue that you can trust them, but if they were trustworthy they wouldn't demand you create a third party account. This represents a considerable risk to gamers due to the privacy and security implications of developers that wish to bypass Steam and harvest user data. Remember, sometimes if the product is free, YOU are the product.[/quote] [quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url] This game is partially or completely made with talentless, soulless AI generated content.[/quote] This is yet another student project, one of literally thousands self-published on Steam Direct. It's from Hochschule Darmstadt in Germany. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" games, we must still question what value they have for gamers. This isn't a fully fleshed out game. It's the result of an academic exercise and has much more limited value than a professionally developed game. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments. It helps their marketing and makes students feel good, but it puts the business before the needs of gamers. The students were deliberately taught by Hochschule Darmstadt that it's okay to use AI slop in game development... utterly unacceptable. AI slop is trained without permission on copyrighted material. When developer use AI slop in a published product they are contributing to intellectual property theft and copyright infringement. That sheer, galling lack of ethics from a no-longer reputable educational institution aside, this is just a dumb tech demo from students who made a mobile app tier "city builder" where you tap on your iPhone screen to build a "moon base". Honestly if I could go live on the moon to get away from all this low quality student homework worsening Steam, I would. This hasn't been updated since 5 months. While it may not be abandoned yet, it's rotting in development hell and it's probably never going to be finished. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it even more difficult for gamers to find actual, finished games. I couldn't find this on the app stores, but for all intents and purposes this could have been a mobile app. We're here for best of breed PC gaming experiences, and this is about as far from that as you can get. That's enough by itself to disqualify this. We don't spend thousands building gaming rigs so that we can pretend they're iPhones and play iPhone games and mobile apps. As mentioned, this features really godawful, "wrong" looking AI slop instead of genuinely and sincerely created game assets. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating real game assets or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision. AI slop sticks out like a sore thumb... and it comes across as insulting. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too, and that's glaringly obvious here. In terms of visuals, this features fairly low quality low poly 3D graphics which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and while some developers struggle with creating high quality visuals, failing to do so is a disservice to gamers. It's very difficult to recommend bad looking games. You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality product, this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must learn they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I had my cat walk over the keyboard while the EULA was displaying, which fixed that problem for me. Next is pricing and what value this has 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. There's the other problem, too... as a student project, this wasn't made for gamers. There's no requirement for them to polish and balance the game properly, all they need is something to show the faculty so they can get their grade and move on. Let's once more ask... why is that good for gamers? It's obviously not delivering a solid product. Yet here it is, on the store page, and here you are, reading my review for a student demo that's going to waste your time. While genuine amateur developers who made real products get ignored because they have to compete with this stuff. In some ways, this deluge of student projects on Steam is harmful to everyone. In terms of player counts and popular reception, this couldn't even crack 100 players at its absolute peak. For a free game on a platform with 130 million players, that is a spectacular failure, mostly due to the reasons I've supplied here. This student project/tech demo/glorified homework assignment provides no Steam profile benefits, no +1 to your game count, and little value to gamers (because it's just a small, unpolished student project), so I can't recommend this over the thousands of full, professionally made games on Steam. The use of AI slop is a direct insult to gamers and real, ethical content creators and artists everywhere. AI models are trained on copyrighted intellectual property without permission from the owners.

Отстой с картинками сгенерированными ИИ.

nice esa

IMPACT is a really unique game. What makes it special is that it actually supports real space research. Knowing that my actions in the game could help with future space missions makes it feel really meaningful.

What shall I say? We are gaming for science and its great!