Chapatriste

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"Chapatriste" is a student project from what I think is some kind of community college in Seville, Spain. This year the students made an FPS shooter game which (I hope) is trying to be some kind of boomer shooter, and unfortunately falls very short of that humble goal. What do you do in the game? It's a simple FPS... run around poorly rendered, low poly, badly textured environments and shoot historical Spanish figures. Who thought that was a good idea for a game? Oh yeah, Campus Cámara de Sevilla did. There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal. 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. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really d…