骰子模拟器 (2023)

"骰子模拟器" (or "Dice Simulator") is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, "骰子模拟器" is a software application that allows you to simulate various polyhedral dice rolls. The number and types of dice you can roll are limited, and this whole thing could have been done in a browser. Therefore, as an application, this is useless, but worse, this was published on Steam as if it's a game when it obviously isn't one. 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 loop here…