shutterbuds

"shutterbuds" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from Champlain College in Vermont. 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. The students made a game with an okay premise, you need to run around a forest and take photos of various Pokemon or whatever, great. The quality is lacking, and there's a slew of bugs and issues, and zero optimisation, which makes this unpleasant to play. These problems will never be fixed, the students have moved on. Once more, a student project teases us with something that …

For a school project, very fun

This was the BEST game ive ever played

Played single player and it was so laggy and got stuck more than once at the board where you turn in things. want to like but it needs to be fixed.

Game sucks keep it up

You can hit your friends with a hammer, and name yourself slurs. 10/10. Needs more content though. Truly, a good 15 mins of my life