Fanite

[h1]Before I played Fanite, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

It's clear a lot of effort has been put into this, but there's a general lack of polish. The first things that bother me are the lack of inventory tooltips and weird controls for moving items in your inventory. Most of the actual content is copied from Magicite, with some changes and a weaker art style. I'd like to see this game move in a more unique direction, and with a lot of work it could be a great alternative/successor to Magicite. For now I can't really recommend it, though hopefully this changes in the future.

"Fanite" is an unabashed, lazy ripoff of MAgicite (Copyright Smashgames, 2014). Many lazy "amateur" developers don't pay attention to their obligations under copyright law, and often steal the ideas of actual, real game developers without credit, such as the "developer" here has done. Putting aside the unethical intellectual, creative and moral bankruptcy of stealing someone else's game concept, this is also breaking that unwritten law of stealing other people's game ideas... you should at least try to do better than the game you're ripping off. "Fanite" is considerably worse than MAgicite. Before we get too far into it, let's go over what this disaster is... it's basically a really weak Terraria ripoff (being a ripoff of Magicite which is a Terraria ripoff). A ripoff of a ripoff. It's a platformer/crafter with no content (procgen), crap graphics, and weak and convoluted crafting stuff tacked on. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this…

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did not understand horible crafting system sh!t combat and the tutorial needs a tutorial on how to be a tutorial

As a cute little pet project, this is passable, but it is nowhere near polished enough to be anywhere beyond alpha testing. The tutorial is complete garbage; it explains vague concepts, but doesn't give you the basics you need to actually play the game, such as controls or what various symbols mean.