Joy-N Help Me

Generic platformer that has no business using so many resources. Because the game was created for mobile phones, the controls are relatively simple. You only move left and right and jump. The fact that you can only jump from a level surface makes the game a little irritating. If you try to leap while standing on an incline, nothing will happen. Another major issue is that going left does not correctly move the screen with you. Most games place the character in the center of the screen and move it as you push left or right. In this game, the screen starts moving when you’re almost near the left edge of the screen. You take on the role of a black creature who lives in a colorless world. Because you merely glide over the surface, there are no fancy animations. Your character's white eyes ensure that you don't get lost in the darkness. The same goes for enemies whose eyes are red. Stages are played in a linear order. Although you can jump on enemies and kill them, the stages are mostly platforming challenges. Collecting various stuff doesn’t really matter. The most common are mushrooms that give you extra life if you collect a hundred of them. There are also collectibles such as lanterns and letters that spell your name. You can take three hits with normal enemies. However, platforming is hard because you burst like a bubble upon a smallest touch with hazards. These come in the form of spiky enemies, saws, holes, etc. Very unwelcome surprise is that the game uses insane amount of resources. My computer can run modern games, and this game is taking half or more of everything, from CPU to memory. This is unacceptable for a generic 2D game with no colors or animations. I assume there’s something else running along with the game and I'm not willing to risk it.

Если в игре приходится возвращаться в обратном направлении налево, то экран не корректно следует за персонажем, плохой обзор камеры.

Beni duyabiliyor musun? Benim adım Joy-N. Bu yere nasıl geldiğimi anlamıyorum. Oyun oynuyordum ve aniden büyük bir fırtına başladı. Bir şekilde vuruldum ve ne olduğunu açıklayamam. Şimdi uyandım ve etrafımdaki her şey farklı görünüyor. Dünya renksiz görünüyor. Belki rüya görüyorum, belki değil ama her şey çok gerçekçi geliyor. Korkmaya ve çok yalnız hissetmeye başladım. Lütfen bu renksiz dünyadan bir çıkış yolu bulmama yardım eder misiniz?"

我以为现在是1998年呢

How the phone games nothing special it is a simple level game.

"Joy-N Help Me" is a garbage mobile app that got dumped on Steam as a paid product. Imagine trying to get PC gamers to pay for garbage mobile apps. What do you do in the game? It's a shallow and pointless 2D retro platformer, so you just do platforming stuff and wrestle with the godawful mobile phone controls. It's just a ripoff of Microsoft's Limbo but really dumbed down. I hope Microsoft sues anyway. The graphics aren't great... that will understandably be a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. 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. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $4 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 8 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.