Jigs4w3D Puzzle Challenge

Playable but so buggy that it bugs me.

clunky controls ,audio is horrible ,like the sound balance is off wack and the peice clipping is bugged where even if its right ,if its not hitting the right pixil is wont solve the puzzle so you end up spending half your time making sure the stupid peice is in place

Unfortunately, the gameplay of this game leaves something to be desired, as does the position of the image for viewing.

Fun puz finsihed Johanassberg got 3 achiv

[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] "Jigs4w3D Puzzle Challenge" is AI Slop, and it's FOR PROFIT. This guy made a bunch of AI slop images, put them on a Unity jigsaw puzzle game template (with some asset flipped looking rooms you can pretend you're sitting in while you look at AI Slop), and then paywalled all the AI slop so he can try to get YOUR money for AI Slop. This is NEVER okay. This is made almost completely out of 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. The developer knows the AI slop models he used were trained without permission on copyrighted works... the developer is contributing to this copyright infringement and intellectual property theft by using that illegally trained AI Slop creation for profit. Completely unethical. 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. Let's look at the price and what kind of value this actually offers gamers. You're expected to pay up $9 USD to unlock content through DLC purchases. The game should not be considered completely unlocked until you empty your wallet for the developer. This is misleading and predatory pricing on a product falsely marketed as "free". Given that this free game won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? Nope. I didn't have to pay for this, but I still feel like I got scammed. The use of AI slop is a direct insult to gamers and real, ethical content creators and artists everywhere.

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In summary - a very realistic jigsaw simulator, but perhaps too realistic for me (hidden pieces, variable lighting, 3D viewing angles etc)... It would be hard to imagine another jigsaw simulator that could get nearer to the feel of the real thing - perhaps only something using VR to enable the user to handle the pieces. In this game the setting is a choice of 3D environments, and the pieces are initially randomly distributed as if emptied from a bag or box - they may be face up or down, on their own or part of a pile, fully visible or behind part of the 3D environment, and oriented correctly or need rotating (using the mouse wheel). The main artifice is the use of a grid on which the pieces are placed, rather than allowing totally free-form assembly. The game comes with a number of built-in jigsaws with attractive and/or challenging images, each of which can be completed with five different levels of complexity (i.e. numbers of pieces). My play time represents assembling 100 jigsaws i.e. all 20 jigsaws which count towards the achievements, each in all 5 sizes; there are other jigsaws included and a DLC apparently allows users' photos to be loaded into the game too. There are some issues - the 3D setting means that some pieces can be fully hidden (there is a "reshuffle" feature to randomly rearrange unplaced pieces), and because a piece is located in 3D space, selecting it may mean moving the mouse cursor around in the general vicinity until the piece glows green rather than aiming exactly for it (this particularly affects pieces which have fallen behind parts of the 3D setting). Also the pieces can be illuminated differently depending on where they fell, which is realistic but frustrating. But the main problem for me is that I do real jigsaws if I want the lovely old-fashioned experience of leaning over a board and handling pieces that may need turning over or rotating, and of searching for edge pieces or common colours/shapes. Conversely, I love computer jigsaws for the variety of images and shapes of pieces, the convenience, and the lack of issues like damaged tabs, dropping pieces on the floor, finding somewhere to place the jigsaw board, etc. I enjoyed playing this game, I recognise the care that has gone into its design and implementation, and I am very happy to recommend it heartily to others, but at this level of realism I personally would prefer to do a jigsaw for real.