Project Glitch (2018)

The premise of the game is really interesting and cool - I’ve found the process of testing my own games to be engaging and often surprising and amusing, and I love the idea of tasking players with doing this. However, I found that Project glitch failed to engage me. The game didn’t ask enough of me. It mostly told me exactly what to do, and when I succeeded It was not due to my actions or intentions. I was a character following a script - not an agent who makes decisions, solves problems, or explores the game world. All this might not have been much of a problem if I found the game to be consistently funny, but most of the jokes fell flat. I suspect this is because they were centered around the game being buggy - which was totally expected from the beginning, thus didn’t violate my expectations. These gags were usually too predictable to be funny - follow instruction, bug happens, follow instruction, bug happens, follow instruction… and so on. The game would be way better if it was a scavenger hunt, rather than a series of levels which the player is directed through. Fans of Goat Simulator and similar games might find Project Glitch funnier than I did. And developers in sear…

The idea of experiencing a game from a playtester perspective is one, that made me curious. Sadly, this one can't keep up. Instead of checking the gameworld for inconsistencies and problems, that might arise of oversights and unexpected player behaviour (maybe even with occasional updates, that fix some errors and implement a few new ones), this game is rather a lineup of minitasks with each ending on a bug. While the pricing is a reason to keep expectations low, being led through short levels, where instead of a victory screen the reward is a bug report, does neither feel satisfying as a game nor as a testing simulation. Also the graphics make me motion sick. This could have been good. But to get there, one would need to create the whole game anew.

It's a nice game but there happens to be a glitch/bug where when you get to the roof lvl and you get up there and you look at the credits and go backwards you'll be able to go through the yellow wall and you'll fall down and you're out of the map and you can do almost what ever you want! proof: http://prntscr.com/imp249 http://prntscr.com/imp38h http://prntscr.com/imp3fy

Not really what the game promises : Your job is not to 'find glitches', it more about 'to find glitches that are planned to be found'. But somehow not in a bad way. There are still "unplanned" glitches that don't matter with which you can play a bit though, but the game is indeed about 'the common glitches you would have to deal with as a dev' as if you would make a list, and let the player experiment this list. To sum up : the game isnt what you expect by reading the description but it's still quite interesting or more like a reminder if you're also addicted to find glitches in the games you usually play

Disclosure: I know the author of this game, slightly. Ran into him recently and he mentioned he'd written a game; I asked to playtest it. He offered to give me a free copy; I declined and bought one for $0.99 through Steam. I like the idea of minigames-within-a-game. I love the premise of finding purposeful glitches. As it currently stands, it's more of a few minigames with great graphics than a single coherent game. Read on for details. I tried clicking on the receptionist, the fountain, the pictures, some of the extra doors, some of the people and objects upstairs, and the two empty desks and the empty conference table upstairs, in the hopes of being able to interact with them; nothing. Would be really cool if some little stuff happened in the process, especially funny things, whether or not those things end up affecting the game as a whole. More texture. More things to discover. Suggestion: once the player gets upstairs, let them choose one of the empty desks to sit at; once they click on the computer (any part of it), then switch to a job-assignment screen and tell them to go to the end of the room and watch the video; then come back here to their terminal after ea…