JosPlays' Escape - GameJam April 2024

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The ghosts don't actually kill you, they just take away points, and overall the game is kind of boring to be honest.

"JosPlays' Escape - GameJam April 2024" is just a pointless 2D top down avoidance game... run around a 2D arena, collect 5 things, avoid the enemies, uninstall fast. This is not a sincerely made product. It was made for a game jam, which is a problem. It was done in a very short time, but professional game development takes years of effort from teams of talented people. A "game" slapped together in a weekend by an amateur simply isn't going to have any value for gamers and that plays out clearly with this shovelware. Also, products created in game jams were never intended for gamers. They exist only to stroke the ego of amateur developers who can't get a real job in the industry. When untalented developers put their own vanity before the needs of the player, garbage like "JosPlays' Escape - GameJam April 2024" is the result. Imagine if airports ran a "plane jam" to see who which amateur enthusiast could build an airplane within a weekend with a $100 budget. Would you fly on that plane? No. It takes time and resources to do a job properly.It might seem harmless for hundreds, if not thousands of these game-jam ego projects being dumped on Steam, but it's not. They take away ma…