articy:draft 3
This is an over priced, under powered waste of your time. I have spent YEARS using ARTICY Draft. I spent thousands of hours on the first edition. And to date have spent almost 1000 USD on the suite. It’s a failed experiment. The development team has all but abandoned it, save for things that allow them to sell in new markets.
This has the power to be a wonderful tool for organization of an MMORPG or RPG game. You can cross reference quite a bit, and create some very unique flows. But it’s just not designed for anyone who either writes or creates game mechanics.
– Real player with 1610.3 hrs in game
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In short, I highly recommend this software to anyone who is serious about making a video game. That said, here is my explanation as to why I say that. making a video game is not easy. You have a lot of tasks that need to be thought out and features to develop. In steps Articy:Draft 3 a tool that allows you to create your virtual world in one piece of software for export into you game engine of choice.
Now if you are like me and bought the Articy:Draft 2, you may ask yourself why upgrade? My answer, it depends upon your technical specs you want to get out of this software. Do you want to use XML and Excel or Word? Well then there isn’t too many reasons why you would want to upgrade. Otherwise, I would upgrade as the JSON exporter alone made the choice for me. As a game developer, I needed JSON in order to read the exported documents in my proprietary Game Engine. The other upgrades are nice ease of life features, but the ability o produce JSON documents and the ability to make plugins was my deciding factor and I’d bet many other people made the same conclusion.
– Real player with 534.3 hrs in game
Builder Simulator
https://store.steampowered.com/app/914010/Train_Station_Renovation/
Builder Simulator is the perfect game for those who want to build a house, from the ground up, one brick at a time. On easy, the game will guide you step by step and allow you to learn by showing you full instruction, but on hard you will get no help - instead rely on your builder skills and make everything yourself.
Builder Simulator will let you:
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Create your own projects - build houses, shops and industrial buildings.
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Use different tools - use specialist equipment as it’s meant to be.
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Take care of building materials - do not let the construction site run out of materials needed for work.
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Create your own materials - Mix water and cement to create concrete, but make sure your proportions are right.
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Do It Yourself - do everything yourself, don’t worry about incompetent workers messing your work up.
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CUR3D Steam Edition
While the usual tools fail, CUR3D can repair and convert 3D files (not made for printing).
Recommended! ( if you know why you need this software )
– Real player with 22.0 hrs in game
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After spending a bunch of hours mucking around in Blender and Zbrush trying to get a video game mesh into a printable state, this just worked.
– Real player with 11.8 hrs in game
Stonehenge VR SANDBOX
Experienced on the Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality
You can view my gameplay and initial impressions review here: https://youtu.be/P983oWnWdyg
I’m surprised that this app doesn’t have more reviews. It’s a good educational app. You get a nice narrated tour of Stonehenge. I definitely learned some things that I didn’t know before about this ancient monument.
You even have your own sandbox where you can change stuff like the time of day or night, the angle of the sun, fog, or you can change the colors of the stones, or add your own. You can listen to your own music while you just chill. You can even fly around and check it out from different angles. You can add your own decorations such as butterflies or your own campfire.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Stonehenge VR Sandbox is awesome software. Very polished and authentic. Stonehenge is one of those places we think about as a child and were looking forward to trying in VR. This experience was more than I hoped for! It is also one of the experiences which everyone in the family can appreciate. It’s a must to try, especially if you are new to VR and want a superb first experience.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
ArtPuzzle VR
ArtPuzzle VR is a great way to learn something new about world art in an entertaining way. Get to know the great works of art and Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the time as you view the images in the highest resolution using virtual reality.
Train your three-dimensional imagination and attention as you solve puzzles.
Game Features:
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Various collections and paintings from the largest museums in the world
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Three locations
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Choice of puzzle difficulty levels
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Save and load partially assembled puzzles
Explore something new
Explore the interesting details of famous paintings
Get fun and increase your intelligence
Add to your wishlist
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1596810/ArtPuzzle_VR/
CopperCube 5 Game Engine
Lets be clear, Coppercube is intended to be simple and easy to use. This is a software for non programers, or those like me who prefer to focus on art and design, rather than typing tons of code. For this Coppercube is the best out there. Porting between PC, MacOS, WebGl, Android, and flash is near seamless. Most of the time its as simple as clicking the publish to option. There are tons of behaviors and actions to mix and match to do most things you will need, and their is a Javascript API if you want even more control. I’ve used quite a few game engines over the years (Multimedia Fusion, Gamemaker, 3DRad, Jamagic, Gamesalad) and none were as easy and fast to develop 3D applications than Coppercube.
– Real player with 3991.5 hrs in game
I have been playing around with CopperCube the past couple of weeks and I have fallen in love. 1 being that it is easy to get something simple up and running but also the option and simplistic coding. I start messing with the action and coding behaviors and find it to be quite easy when following their tutorial (but I am coding savvy). Graphic wise it isn’t Unity but I am not out to make a AAA game either.
I am running this on my Surface 3 so anyone who comes across my review I would say it runs smoothly on it and isn’t a resource hog which is a huge plus to me.
– Real player with 357.7 hrs in game
Dry Erase: Infinite VR Whiteboard
I use Dry Erase for maths work. Using this program to derive maths, whilst listening to music, is almost zen like. It’s amazingly calming and strangely fulfilling.
For my professional work, its proved useful for a few technical meetings, checking derivations and discussing engineering issues. The interface is simple, but its incredible useful being able to scroll for ever and use different colour pens to highlight different things. Shame its not multiplayer, but I guess we can’t have everything.
– Real player with 38.1 hrs in game
Review of Dry Erase: Infinite VR Whiteboard
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First and foremost, this is worth the money at its current state regardless of any following critiques. If you are in need of a whiteboard VR app that lets you focus free of distractions, this is the one for you. I have used it already to create videos explaining complex topics I deal with professionally, and I see several hundreds/thousands of hours more. I’m not going to get into the technical bits of the app itself (at least not too much). Let’s focus on how this helps someone like me who is easily distracted, a visual person, and someone who needs the proper environment to conceptualize and communicate complex abstract ideas.
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
Fractal Gallery VR
Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers
Please note: I received a free Steam key through the Steam Curator Connect program
I think this is a nice virtual art gallery. Keep in mind, this is not a game. It’s simply a simulation of an art gallery with fractal art being the only type of art featured. You’re in a cozy up-scale gallery and you teleport around to view the art work, I would have preferred full locomotion with smooth turning as an option.
There are several pieces to enjoy. You can stare at them for quite awhile and move around in your playspace to get different views. If you stare long enough, more than likely you’ll start seeing the images moving, even within the static images. Other pieces are not static at all and you can see the images transform and change colors.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
I LOVE fractals! Really wanted this to be awesome, but it is not. I dive in and get lost in a good fractal on my VR often, but have yet to find a better option than youtube on my virtual desktop, with the screen stretched as big as I can see. This “game” is just a small collection of still shots, a couple animated fractals, and a odd view of the mandelbrot set that dose not zoom in or do this piece of mathematical art justice at all. I would not buy this even if the fractals are updated regularly, it just lacks the trippiness I’m looking for.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
House Flipper
–-{ Graphics }—
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
—{ Gameplay }—
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It’s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don’t
—{ Audio }—
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good- not a lot of audio in the game
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I’m now deaf
—{ Audience }—
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
—{ PC Requirements }—
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
– Real player with 351.4 hrs in game
i love this game very much, its super easy, no struggle. it guides you through what you are to do. Mods are a great way to spice it up as well, so you also get that as well. Building houses isn’t what you do, but you change its look, the inside you can go crazy, and do as you please. super relaxing and you get a sense of accomplishment when you finish a house. You do “level” which makes the game veerryy slloooowww at the beginning.. BUT once you get everything levelled up its super quick!
The DLCs are amazing, but one negative is the Pets DLC is a joke of the simple fact that they keep giving us other DLCs and still not the Pets one, with that said its not the end of the world, thats my opinion. I feel like they try to push content out, so other DLCs are slower to being released. its been a year and still no pets XD it is what it is because this game is still amazing. Don’t forget that they like our feedback, and there are things in here that have changed because of it and thats awesome! Like things i’ve mentioned to a friend, and then BOOM update with that fix or change. its cool to see others have the same idea. So nice, great group of people here. Amazing game, big fan haha
– Real player with 317.4 hrs in game
001 Game Creator
Especially for the money, I don’t think you’ll find a program more fun to use when putting together your games. I haven’t found a more flexible engine (Short of maybe Unity, which still requires extra licensing) to quickly piece together scenes and basic mechanics to sketch out game ideas without diving into a million menus. They don’t even have to be simple prototypes, as I am also able to implement complex mechanics in no time at all using easy drag and drop scripting. I have found that my only limitation so far has been my own terrible math skill.
– Real player with 4553.1 hrs in game
I’ve used 001 now for almost 15 years. I’m currently working for SoftWeir Inc. and have contributed to 001 in many ways. That being said, I originally purchased 001 years ago through their website as any other customer, and not just given a free copy as a team member. I’m not being paid to write this review.
001 is a very capable engine designed to bring your ideas to life, as quickly as possible. You can import assets, just plop them into a map or interface, tweak some triggers then start building a game. If you are familiar with the engine, and have the assets ready, you can quite literally prototype ideas in under an hour (Of course depending on how many existing systems and assets you can leverage, and what gameplay you are looking for)
– Real player with 1955.3 hrs in game