inFINIte Robotics

Nice short free VN!

inFINIte Robotics, modern teknolojiyle dolu bir fantastik dünyada geçen görsel bir roman oyunudur. Oyunun amacı dünyanın gizemini ortaya çıkarmak ve bulmacaları çözerek elektronik hakkında bilgi edinmek!

見た目通りでリファインすべき点は数え切れないほどあるのだが、それでも創作へのほとばしるような情熱が伝わってきて心地よかった。公開ありがとう。

Finally a game that allows you to escape from the boring grind of magic and access the wonders of Real Stuff Technology. Thank you, thank you, thank you developers! What is also amazing is that the game manages to honour all the established traditions (i.e. clichés) of the genre and make them pertinent again. And the idea of having Fini use the exotic English language as the old language of yore is pure gold. I think if I were four-five decades younger I would find this game even more appealing - as a first introduction in the wondrous world of electrical and electronic devices. I would warmly recommend it to any 8-10 year-old kind as a unique adventure that, for once, will give them ideas they can pursue in the real world to acquire lasting and tangible wizardly engineering powers for themselves. Chapeau bas to the developers!

"inFINIte Robotics" is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This garbage Ren'Py e-book has a couple of puzzles (so basically get your 2B pencil out and fill out the maze section at the back of the book), and of course the rest of it is your usual garbage high school anime club dropout fan-fiction writing. Of special note is the "art" drawings that accompany the text, which look like they were done by a 6 year old. This was slapped together with the godawful Ren'Py visual novel construction kit... enabling terrible authors to publish books as if they were games when otherwise we might have been spared the pollution. So, just like no professional writing took place here, no professional software development took place, either. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. One of the chief problems with failed authors polluting Steam with non-game E-books is that E-books can easily just be presented in a web browser... there's no justification for charging money on Steam for what might as well be a webpage. We don't spend thousands on buying a gaming rig to spend money on Steam for something Chrome or Firefox could do. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at only 3 concurrent readers... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. The funny thing is, if you wanted to print this book, you'd only need to print 3 copies to satisfy the entire world's demand for it. While this E-book has no up-front cost, you can get better quality, professionally written books and comics for free online (from places like Project Gutenberg) or from public libraries. Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.

Reminds me of my days as a student when physics teacher was all about electricity and such.

A nice passion project made by a friend of mine! The free to play short isekai visual novel adventure is based on Ninhydro's comics, mixing elements of fantasy and technology. The protagonist is an Electrical Engineering student, just like we were years back, transported in a fantasy world, but the game's quite aware of itself so it does not strike as banal. I appreciated the minigames based on electrical engineering knowledge, that is something not seen very often in the gaming world. As stated, this is a passion project free or charge; I enjoyed seen my friend's ideas come materialised.