Limouzik
I’ve been wanting to learn about chords for a long time. This program is very simple, and I certainly wouldn’t use it for music production, but it seems like a great education tool.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
untill they add a free mode then i could recommend it not good for $20.00
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Virtual Presenter Pro
I found this concept to be interesting. It would be useful to be able to import your own script in to practice skills or speak on the spot off a queue card like what was shown in the screenshots. Instead it gives you a quote, a person and concept to memorize and talk about, without filler. You can talk about anything not even related to the topics and you still get a great. You can look anywhere it doesn’t matter. Word count doesn’t work. No information on how to improve. Motivational quotes are questionable. Crowd looks like they smoked meth and drove to my presentation at 300 mph. They clap I think when the speech ends. Same topics almost every time. Graphics look like shit. Easiest way to put it. Not a good way to improve skills or being comfortable infront of a crowd. Id rather do cbt then spend money on this game. Sorry. Too bad.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
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This should be in early access. It is not complete and does not work. Audience starts to clap randomly until conversation is over.
Other problems:
1. Very low-resolution textures
2. Audience doesn’t move properly (hands clap 1 foot apart)
3. Interface and navigation very confusing or don’t exist
How do I stop or start? How do I select a topic?
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Steno Arcade
First of all, this is a steno game. What is steno? Look here at me playing this game on a QWERTY keyboard and a steno machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtQzTUEuPWo You can see that I don’t write individual letters, rather words at a time. And writing words at a time means that my hands don’t move much, much less than a QWERTY keyboard where you have to type every letter.
The steno machine is much faster at text entry than a regular keyboard, but it takes months to become proficient. Part of the reason that many haven’t heard of steno is that for the longest time it wasn’t public information! A major stakeholder in this game, Mirabai Knight, tried to bring steno to everyone, starting in 2010. She first had a program made that interfaced with steno machines and handled all the steno logic → that program is Plover, and I use and develop it now.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
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I’ll divide this review for two audiences: Uninformed and transcribers in the shorthand trade.
Uninformed:
If you stumbled upon this game, you might be wondering “What the heck is steno?” which is fair question. This is very niche product for a speicifc trade/industry in which you might recognize in captions on Television or Court reporters (sometimes refered as stenographers). This means that you need a specific usb-equipped shorthand steno writer and download an open source software to convert what you input into that writer onto your computer - you still following me? - and also you’ll need to learn the complete theory and methodology of how to write steno. If you’re still confused or uninterested thenn this is obviously not the game for you.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Mightyy’s FPS Aim Trainer
Been playing this game for a while today and for an early access game its good the maps have been built really good
– Real player with 17.6 hrs in game
Tested this early, feels pretty good. Feels very fluid with like no input lag, It’s missing a few scenarios but I feel like these will be added in time. Overall the rest of the features are very good, I especially like the customization options and the ui.
– Real player with 12.1 hrs in game
Beat Aim - Rhythm FPS Shooter
This is insane
So you have :
-Pretty much any music you want
-Actually good aim training (you can tweak pretty much everything to your liking)
-Public tournaments (Player, Mapper and Streamer) with actual prizes (Think first place is usually 30$ atm)
-High customization available, from maps to backgrounds and game modes (ye you can even move within the map or give heads to bots to practice your HSR hmm
-A user friendly interface that improves with every (frequent) update
-Insane community which actually has insane music tastes
– Real player with 282.6 hrs in game
Beataim: clicking kovaaK’s 3D-shaped targets to the beat of any music
! even Hentai not that it’s fun that’s in an .mp3/ogg file.
∞possibilities of beatmaps
+Most innovative and unboring song unlocking system I’ve seen as of yet.
+It has japanese translation if you’re bored of seeing english
! weeb
+AI algorithm sufficient, just gotta know the generator +playtime required
+has people who mapped songs for you if you don’t want to (workshop)
– Real player with 119.1 hrs in game
Aimbeast
This is one of the most consistent game I am playing currently, and the only aim-trainer I’ve ever found useful. Because of this, over the passed few months, I have noticed a drastic increase in my ability to aim with precision. I use this trainer mostly for warming up before I play Overwatch. I will play 1-2 hours before I head into Competitive mode. I was able to move up from Gold to Platinum within the last month.
The nice thing about this game is that it has a 1:1 aim adjustment system for multiple games. You can import your settings from each game for an similar aim experience. If I have a certain aim setting for Overwatch, and I want to translate that setting to Apex Legends, there are in-game tools to help with that.
– Real player with 161.9 hrs in game
What I thought would be a good alternative to Kovaaks with cool features ends up to be a dead project moving at a snails pace. No updates for a long time, seasons remain unchanged, one of the features that sounded cool (AI bots to train with) is now DLC, and over a year for any form of content makes this a bad choice over Kovaaks.
Also the community is not there, it lacks in scenarios for training and the “good” ones are just janky copies of Kovaaks (with some of them not even working) So if you’re going to train your aim just close this and get Kovaaks. I gave it an honest go, but the lack of content, community and dead discord make this a hard “no” from me.
– Real player with 124.7 hrs in game
GameGuru
Gameguru is a rough-around-the edges, cheap, underpowered game engine. It is a spiritual successor to TGC’s previos successful endeavor: FPS Creator. FPS creator was a dream come true for wanna-be mappers and newbie game designers wanting to create their own simple little first person experiences. It worked well enough for what it was, had a super active community, and lots of mods, an easy-to-learn custom scripting language, and many successful games were made with it.
FPS Creator reloaded promised to be the upgrade everyone wanted from FPS Creator. It was gonna feature all next gen graphical features, a bigger map editor, and in general more freedom and ability. This was proposed on kickstarter where it didn’t meet it’s exorbitant asking donation, so it later was rebranded and came out as GameGuru.
– Real player with 650.3 hrs in game
Yeah, okay, GameGuru doesn’t have the best graphics around, but they have a specific look to it, so there’s that. Making the graphics look as good as UE4 and Unity however, is practically impossible. But that’s not my point, my point is GameGuru’s graphics are good enough for making games for the hecc of it.
The engine is editable to certain extents, but not really enough for hardcore coders and developers. Again, this is an engine made more for the fun of it. Making some nice $$$ is possible, but not too easy.
– Real player with 387.7 hrs in game
Operation Deep Magic: Cryptanalysis
Operation Deep Magic is a detail-oriented, decryption simulator for learning how to break codes. Very good trainer. It’s defintely much easier to follow along the concise steps in this simulator than to study articles and textbooks.
I like:
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real code breaking experience and practices
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automatic math explanations for my analytical work
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puzzles that are super hard and also very easy
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all puzzles are real-life communication, math, and computer problems
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real, NSA-approved encryption that is adopted internationally
– Real player with 247.6 hrs in game
Let me start off by saying that this is probably one of the most deeply technical games on Steam. The cryptanalysis techniques utilized in this are actual, real-life techniques used in academic cryptography and spy alike.
How do I know this? I’m a cryptographer. :)
By playing this game and learning how these techniques work, you will gain an understanding of how these attacks are performed. If you’re not familiar with the basics of cryptography, this game is likely too difficult for you, but there’s no better time to start than right now,
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Pixel Game Maker MV
It’s been a long time coming, but I’m now ready to weigh in my thoughts on Pixel Game Maker MV. I’ve been using this software since early access back in 2018.
TL;DR:
Pixel Game Maker MV is a great game development engine for those that are not programmers, and want to be able to create either side scrolling or top down action games. It’s got enough for a single person development operation to chew on here to create the game you want to create in the way you want it created; bearing in mind that you operate within the program’s limits. If programming/scripting is outside your reach (or if it’s something you can do), this is a great engine that has the potential to be amazing as long as the developers continue with updates & performance improvements. There are assets and DLC that is available at the time of writing for you to get a jump on a concept quickly, but there are no asset standards (outside of keeping things divisible by 2) to conform with.
– Real player with 2587.5 hrs in game
I’ll begin this review with I’m 36, not 16. I have no illusions about making a game and distributing it for gain. This is a hobby for me and that is the perspective I write this review from. I have a day job. I moonlight as a hobby pixel artist, and that drives me to dev software to have fun with, and bring it to life.
I began with RPG Maker MV as my first dip into game dev software. I do not have a desire to learn to code so that software was more interesting to me compared to more advanced engines. After years in RMMV I felt the want for more control from the ground up, and not be boxed in by hard limitations from the software, and the need for plugins to break through those hard limitations. Pixel Game Maker MV grants me that feeling. I did not feel like the learning curve to get going on a project was difficult, even without a large database of video tutorial content on YouTube at the time.
– Real player with 1866.7 hrs in game