Blend_IT

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Blend_IT is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, Blend_IT is a software application that is a simple monochrome image manipulation tool. You're presented with a black and white image and you have a couple of tools to manipulate that image. So basically this is MS-Paint with all the colours and most of the tools removed. And someone seriously thought it would be okay to publish this on Steam as if it was a game? For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop. There's no…