MGDC Minigame Collection

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"MGDC Minigame Collection" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from Miami Game Design Club in Florida. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. This is a collection of a whopping 19 student minigames, all of which are terrible. And as we know, more of a bad thing doesn't make it better. There's a lot to unpack here, and of course it's important for students to learn to make complete games, this is commendable, but publishing them is not... it's like saying every junior high school kid should publish th…

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