Me Smart Orc

Me Smart Orc is not a game, it's an e-book/Choose Your Own Adventure ("Visual novel" is another term that writers use when trying to disguise an e-book as a game) that's been launched on Steam as a game, despite not being one. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which presents the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. While there is a dynamic element to the game, this is shallower than a Fighting Fantasy novel from those Games Workshop guys. The game is presented very poorly, using the MIT Quest engine, but seriously, this just looks like Web 1.0 HTML. So why isn't it just in a web browser? At least then the "author" might get paid for an ad impression once in a while. While this is free, it's bad, and badly written (let's face it, if they could write professionally, they'd be published authors, and not paying $100 to self-p…

I found this to be charming and fun. If you like dragons and CYOA then this is one you'll like.

An interesting little short story CYOA set in the game maker's own fantasy Universe (in which they've written a few books on Kindle/Amazon). The deaths and game overs are a little sudden and arbitrary ("Who do you fight, the skeleton or the zombie?" has one correct answer and one game over, for instance) but it's designed to be started over and re-ran quickly. You can create a save game from the menu system, but it's literally going to make a .sav file in your My Documents folder for you to load, the engine itself is basically just a HTML browser [text, hyperlinks to next passage, some pictures]. It's using the public domain "Quest" engine available online at textadventures.co.uk which I found interesting - I'd researched this one in the past while reading up on CYOA and Interactive Fiction but never seen anything implemented in it. That was actually what lead me to try this. There's a few clever variables and mechanics working behind the scenes as well [a NPC you need to protect will go through different states which will affect the gameplay/puzzles/game overs] and I was pleasantly surprised to find earlier decisions were called back to in the ending. Worth a look if you're i…

Very short Choose Your Own Adventure. Don't expect much from this, it's a very short read that should take you less than half an hour to complete. But maybe if you try it again you'll find a different adventure...? To be honest, if this game had been $1.00 I probably would've felt ripped off. But it was free, and it gives you a taste of maybe what do have expected from his other books. Just don't expect to encounter a compelling story, or characters, or dialogue, or gameplay. It's just a short time waster.

Игра 'Me Smart Orc' - это забавная и захватывающая головоломка, где вы управляете орком, стремящимся доказать свою сообразительность. Механика проста: орк толкает блоки, активирует механизмы и ищет путь к финишу на каждом уровне. Однако, простота обманчива! Головоломки становятся все сложнее, требуя логического мышления и планирования. Мне понравилось, что уровни короткие, но продуманные, что делает игру идеальной для быстрых сессий. Визуальный стиль простой, но очаровательный, а орк с его забавными фразами вызывает улыбку. Интерфейс интуитивно понятен, а управление отзывчивое. Хотя игра в основном сосредоточена на головоломках, я оценил бы наличие некоторых дополнительных challenges или секретов, чтобы расширить возможности для повторного прохождения. В целом, 'Me Smart Orc' - это отличная игра для любителей головоломок, предлагающая часы интеллектуальных развлечений. Советую всем, кто хочет пошевелить мозгами!

This is a well-written and engaging choose your own adventure book, and for me at least, it made me interested in the author's other work in the world of Panos. Pay no mind to the negative review by "Obey the Fist". That guy is trying to make a name for himself by being as negative as possible. Thousands and thousands of negative reviews and the only positive one I could find from him was for War Thunder. He claims that Visual Novels and CYOA novels "aren't games". Sure they are. There's input from the player, and victory and defeat conditions.