Answer Campus
Clay Ewing · 2023 · Visual Novel, Education, Simulation, 2D, Comic Book
PC
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About Answer Campus
This is an early prototype created by first-time student developers as part of an academic game design project. It is best understood as a demo rather than a fully polished game.The experience takes place on a fictional college campus and explores uncomfortable, real-world scenarios related to identity, including race, gender, sexuality, and ableism. Through short interactive stories, players respond to challenging moments using different approaches (supportive, diplomatic, confrontational, or disengaged) and see how those choices shape conversations and relationships.This version reflects students learning game design, narrative systems, and interactive storytelling for the first time. As such, it is rough around the edges, limited in scope, and experimental by design. If you’re interested in student work, experimental design, or seeing how a larger idea begins, this demo offers a candid look at the early foundations of the Answer Campus universe.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Answer Campus 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 is a godawfully badly written visual novel designed to "Educate" people on how the developers think you should treat other people, which weirdly involves being more racist than you should be, but what should we expect from people who think Steam is a great place to drop badly written E-books with bad takes on how exactly you should go around respecting people's rights and lifestyle choices. This is hamfisted to say the least, and whatever cause the author thought they were pushing, they've done more harm than good. Trying to address social issues through the medium of video games is misguided and can be harmful. While it's plausible to sug…2 found this helpful
I 1000% respect writing flawed characters, but when a character's flaws and entire personality are being racist all the time? Maybe you're not writing a character well is all I have to say. Everyone is a little racist, or ableist, or homophobic, or something else that makes this entire game viciously uncomfortable. Even your dialogue options can occasionally be a choice between "racist" or "downplaying racism". I just want to know why I guess. I am a college student, who has been around other college students, and a normal conversation is just not going to be that bigoted for absolutely no reason, so.2 found this helpful
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The game was boring...
Where do I actually find this ♥♥♥♥♥?
These people are annoying as hell, and there's no real choice, so it's more of (really bad) visual novel than a game. I hope they lost the contest.
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