Yet Another Research Dog
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About the GameGame Overview:This is an autobiographical casual game. Based on the experience of the founder of our studio and a bunch of other researchers, the story of a research dog, who has been long-term pushed and unequally treated, is presented in the game.
In this game, players need to work on boss’s countless jobs in order to make enough money for daily supply. Pressure of being fired, starving or even being mentally destroyed is always a company of the research dog.
Of course, you will also experience some interesting or surprising moments, for examples, the colleague’s help (or troubles), nice gift from your neighbor(or traffic jam) and so on.Game Features:
1. Art Style: In , 99% of the elements are shaped from black and white lines. Therefore the whole game world is filled with apathy and humor.
2. Characters: The hero of the game is a personified dog. And all the roles in the game are two most common pets in real life: cats and dogs.
3. Instruments: All the instruments in the game have their prototypes in the real world. And the way you operate them is well designed.
4. Soliloquize: As a vivid character, the research dog has its own opinion towards the society, but there is only one audience of all the thoughts, himself. Considering it is a story that telling himself, why not try to turn tragedy into comedy, turn sadness into fun as possible as we can.
5. Difficulty: The game play of is roughly 1.5 hours, lasting totally 11 days in the game. Every day is tougher than the previous. New gameplay or system will be introduced every several days.
Real life: We introduce some of the elements in real life in this small game: such as having meals, sleep, traffic jam, washing cloth, and so on. You will find that the things that trouble ourselves in real life will always be an company with the research dog.Game Background:Throughout the long journey of your academic career, you’ve had many uncommon experiences.
When it’s time to play as a child, you were studying; when it’s time to date as a teenager, you were studying.
Because of the amount of scholarship offered, you chose a relatively ordinary university; because of your not-so-sophisticated ideals, you went all the way to a Ph.D.
To lighten your family’s burden, you’ve worked as a TA, random paid-by-the-hour job, and cashier. You’ve done other people’s assignment and attended some kid’s parents’ meeting for some pay.
You had a procrastinative Ph.D. mentor and two interesting colleagues. One of them broke your equipment; the other graduated with research data borrowed from you.
After these destructive events, you went back to your work station and stayed. Finally you got your results.
You produced a dissertation good enough for Science, and handed it to your mentor with absolute joy.
Your mentor kept your dissertation for nine months.
Under pressure, you kept working unrequitedly.
You waded through a breakup, loss of a family member, wedding of a childhood friend, and IPO of a friend’s company.
Your cousin, six years younger than you, had a baby when you started your Ph.D. Now her kid is old enough to sell girl scout cookies, and you’re still here, waiting for an elusive diploma.
Maybe your luck did an one-eighty, or maybe your mentor had a moral epiphany. He handed the dissertation back to you, untouched, and told you it’s ready for publishing.
That magnificent summer, you finally managed to graduate.
At that fateful moment, you suddenly remembered your life-long dream.
You still wanted to be a scientist.
Thanks to that untouched dissertation, you got into a research institution.
Game Discussion
Steam User 56
This is a game developed by some who used to be researchers.
To some extent it's real storey, though exaggerated.
The core of this game is beyond nation and language. Many who dreamed to be scientists in their childhood, and struggled to go to college(maybe even prestigous) may have been in the same situation as the dog we control in the game enconters. They're not clever enough as those who can make breakthroughs, nor they do they have someone on whom they can lean in the academic world. Still they devote themselves to the dull work in the lab, coz the progress of science not only needs genious ideas,but also tedious work. They receive the salary not in propotion to their degrees attained during long campus life, they' re exploited by their boss, they lost vigor of juveniles and let years and months slip by. And there's no hope of anything's becoming better. Suddenly they find everything changed, those who didn't go to college have brought up a naughty boy and their family seem so harmonious .those friends in college have become derictors in their company and enjoying middle class life. Yet research dogs,they are repeating their hopeless days.
So why a dog as the main character? This is from an old Hongkong movie, A Chinese Odyssey. At the end of the movie, the hero Zhi Zun Bo choose to take on pains for his love, a walker-by comment as this: Look at this man, isn't he like a dog? Thus a man as a dog is used to describe someone who takes on heavy responsibility and keep on till the end of their journey.
I wonder if this game has English version. I hope this game can be appreciated by more around the world.
Steam User 8
Yet Another Research Dog is a quirky point and click game about the life and tribulations of a scientific researcher. Having a background in the sciences myself, I can relate to this game as it strikes an emotional cord. For everyone that do not have a similar background, this will be an oddly accurate portrait of a scientist. The game itself is fun and humorous, providing a decent amount of content for cheaper than a cup of coffee. I highly recommend this game to all audiences.
Steam User 6
I was mildly salty about how the game ended. The only thing that kept me playing was the storyline, yet it felt unfinished. I guess that's just how life works. Overall it's a good game to spend some time on.
Don't you just hate when the dog drive silently?
Steam User 3
Well "drawn" world with a story about a Dog that just wants to grow up and be a Scientist. The main character continually questions his choice and always looks at the other side where the grass might be greener.
Game features exagerated goals, overbearing bosses, and the suffering of dedicating your life to Science.
Guid 30 minute review here:
Steam User 5
The dog is so cute, I like it.The story reminds me of my difficult time.It's a simple game, but I feel the sincerity of the producer and I am looking forward to your next work.
Steam User 0
My personal review: ★★★★★
This game was laying on my library has been a while, finally i finished playing it and i loved it, the story make me think about my life and stuff, it is a great game. Highly recommend
Steam User 0
Pretty relaxing to do some research that doesn't have your actual career and finances depend on it. 5 stars