Reading Simulator

Really great idea for a simulator! One that tons of people would love to buy BUT....

1) The books are limited and unorganized. They're all on the desks in random places. It'd be better if they were on shelves split by category.

2) The chairs are really messy and disorganized. It's hard at times to get at the books.

3) The book doesn't have an auto-save so you can read a chapter then close and when you re-open it, you'll have to find where you left off.

4) The books on the shelves are inaccessible. Just put all the books on the shelves without the glass and again make them by categories.

5) You jump so high! Wtf lol, that's kind of random

For 0.99$ it's good. I'd buy it for 20$ if you just make a bunch of improvements...It's an amazing idea but the execution could be a lot better.

For the price I recommend it but as it's essentially useless because you have to remember what page you're on when you stop reading, I absolutely cannot recommend it because it's just a complete waste of time in the end.

I can not figure out how to open the books for one. I thought this was going to at the very least tell you how to open a book or even find one that is able to be read.

This isn't a game. You just walk around in a library (graphics and music not too bad) and click on a book to read it. You can't even click on all books and most of them are behind locked cupboards. The books include some classics which you can easily get for free from the web.

great for the price and a most have to open the books right click on them from standing the ones on the table can be open

You can't know the book until you open it. Doesn't save the reading progress. Font is ugly and you can't change it.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy ,,. [and the game crashed again, lol.]
As I have never respected the book "Anna Karenina" which was a manifest for a sl*t, this crash had a good timing xD

Beside the jokes, pls fix the problem with crashing. Also you need to add some sequence for the books. Ofc, if you care and mind to have a forever discounted game for 0,09$ .

Just add sequence and fix the crashing.
I dunno how about the US, but I'm used to libraries where the books stand on shelves in alphabetical order.

Thanks

reading simulator

https://youtu.be/D_ZfZaRCWTI

In a world where time's always fleeting,
Where knowledge is found in the art of speed reading,
There's a tale to be told of a skill so divine,
Of unlocking the secrets within every line.
In libraries vast and bookstores grand,
The quest for knowledge is at hand.
But for those who seek to read with haste,
A different approach they must embrace.
With eyes that dart and minds that race,
They skim through pages, at a furious pace.
Words become a blur, yet meaning is found,
In the rhythm and flow, of each profound sound.
From classics old to modern tales,
They devour them all, like ships with sails.
Through forests of text, they swiftly glide,
Their thirst for knowledge never denied.
But beware the pitfalls that lie in wait,
For speed without comprehension is a dangerous fate.
So take heed, dear reader, and tread with care,
For true understanding is what we must bear.
In the quest for knowledge, let us not forget,
That speed reading alone is not our best bet.
For in the dance of words, let us find our grace,
And savor each moment, in this literary race.

how the fuck is a reading simulator if YOU CANT OPEN THE BOOKS?

Nope. Sentences in books are horribly aligned as if they were hastily pasted from another source.

Very bad control over walking and looking around. When I turn the person's head, it's quite nauseating and when I walk, the sensitivity is way too high.
I could only click on books that were facing me, so most of the books I could not read.
Chairs at the desks were in the way of over half the books making it impossible to click on them and read them.
Overall, not even worth spending the dollar on this game.

Clunky movement, text doesn't scale with resolution so page layouts are pretty ugly, ugly font too. No reading helper utils (bookmarks, skipping, etc). Good potential, shame it doesn't really deliver as an ebook reader.

Who made this crap, a 5 year old? The blur alone stops you from enjoying the game. Then you have to find a book. Good luck with that. I want my $.49 back. Don't bother buying it.

As you can guess from the name and description, "Reading Simulator" is not a game but an art project that asks player a witty question: Why do you need a real library when you have a virtual library? Extrapolating, why do you need a real nature when you have a virtual nature? (see: "Hiking Simulator 2017/2018" from the same developer) Why do you need a real farming when you have Farming Simulator? Why do you need a real friends when you have online-friends? Why do you need a real food when you have photos of food on Instagram?

In case of reading, the answer is: "Because this virtual books are unreadable". "Virtual library" consists of number of poorly formatted texts from free sources on poorly executed "book reader" window with terrible font and without an option of changing any settings. That's not a bad thing for an art project: I assume that no one expected this "game" to be a real book reading software. Even if the reader options was available you simply won't bear the process of reading Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities" or Stoker's "Dracula" when you need to flip the hundreds of pages with a mouseclick without any possibility to leave a bookmark.

Without any mention of it in an open form, "Reading Simulator" emphasizes the theme of comfortable reading: it seems like the process of reading can't give you a true pleasure without a number of conditions that provide you coziness, even if you're trying to read world-famous classic. It's not important if you read the text that is printed on the paper or that is displayed on the screen of your gadget (smartphone or e-book reader), it's a hundred times better experience than "Reading Simulator" can provide.

Again, it's not a bad thing: I assume that one of the main purposes of this project was to make players think about the reasons people like to read printed books, and in my case "Reading Simulator" worked perfectly - at least, now I know that I simply have not enough patience to read even ten pages of "virtual book" in "virtual library" (it seems like this process could be even more uncomfortable in VR), and for me it was a short but definitely fun experience.

okay i have not played this long but i would like to give my impressions and a couple of suggestions

Concept: this is something ive been loking for for a long time. a ebook enviroment that plays like a game. its technically a game but not at the same time. there could perhaps with a couple extra developers a few mini games be addedd to liven things up and give reders a break. overall the concept is amazing

Gamplay: there are alot of not readable books, either placeholders for future titles or just to further the illusion that this is a library. could use something to differentiate between the readable and non redable books.

mechanics: from the discussion bored i saw that the developer is aware of the lack of book marking issue and such. i hope he makes updates soon as for some it might be stressful to read and have to write down and scroll through to find thier pages.

music. the music could use some variety just so the user does not get bored and sick of it.

this game has a lot of potential and id love to see it improved. if you are considering buying the game i would even if you are a little discouraged. supoorting the developer is a way to let him/her know that there are people out there who want this to succed. plus its only a dollar thats like one cheap lootbox on a micro transaction game.

It's worth the dollar I got it for, and not much more. Not to put the dev on blast or anything, it's certainly a good effort, (I know how particular unity development can get!) but it could use some additional polish. The book's hitboxes are absolutely incredibly finnicky at best, and that motion blur honestly made me a bit sick. Really the biggest thing the game needs is an options menu, to disable motion blur, adjust the bloom of the lighting, turn off the music, that sort of thing! But hey, for a single dollar, it's a pretty solid frontend to read project gutenberg books from. If you're feeling particularly ambitious, you could even add some sort of interface to let the user pull in pdfs from their files on disk! Keep up the work, Reading Sim dev!

It's amazing. The best thing is, you don't even know what you're going to read next. You just see a book and pick it up.

Lovely

Nice feel to it, looking forward to the library filling in, and more music tracks. some revisions like a catalog (looks like that's what's at the back there planned) and it would be worth five instead of a dollar. does anything else like this exist?

Just want to read random books? Try this game.

Why would you want to read a book on the computer? You'll find out, I guess!

Horrible controls. I couldn't figure out what to do at first. No invert setting? Some people need their invert mouse setting.

A tutorial would be great.

Brief first play description:
Spawn into glowing room of knowledge, unworthy. Immediately stare at ceiling, no invert. Stumble around discovering gigantic leaping abilities. Notice the reason I'm here all around me and calm down. Bookshelves. Rub face against glass, see books, but do not know how to open their case. Look around some more find cases, one's open.Ffinally, I'll read something. The open case is revealed to be just as fruitless, only hauntingly left open by someone else. The librarian, perhaps? Ok. Maybe there are books I can access somewhere. Walk up to the one true book, the book in the light. Walk up too fast and clip through it.Turn around and find Peter Pan on a desk.Start reading. Satisfying.

SHORT VERSION: This is a terrible way to read books. If you want free ebooks, head to gutenberg.org for the texts, and go to https://calibre-ebook.com for a library & reading app.

Unless you're an ebook fanatic who loves innovative ways to read books, don't bother with this. Reading Simulator is nothing like a *good* way to read books, just... different. I am an ebook fanatic; I wanted to like this, but, it falls short in so many ways.

The library setting is pleasant, but the books are scattered, unmarked, and poorly formatted: they don't include italics or bold from the originals; the line breaks from whatever source file was used are copied, resulting in orphan words all over the place; sometimes text overlaps other text.

There is no skip forward or skip back so it's flip through one page at a time; no bookmarking; no way to mark where a book is in the library. No edition notes - no note of which translation or version a book is. The book itself is shown in a small window in the middle of the screen; there is no enlarging it, nor the text within it, for easier reading.

No copyright info. These are all presumed to be in the public domain, and likely grabbed from Gutenberg (which doesn't explain the line breaks), but some Gutenberg books aren't in the public domain in other countries. It has Joyce's Ulysses; only some versions of that are in the public domain in the US.

It's cheap, so you won't need to feel cheated if you bought it out of curiousity. But it's not worth using to read, and there are better-structured walking sims if you just want to enjoy some quiet ambiance.

I can't believe I spent fifty nine cents on a game where you browse free PDFs.
Let me just give you a rundown of what happens in this game.
You start in a beautifully lit library with windows letting in the light of a setting sun. You have an aiming reticle so that you can select your book with precision and grace and the music begins to play majestically in the background. You attempt to open a book but alas, you have been unsuccessful. So you hop your way down to the ground floor with the absolute grace and jumping ability of a man sized jackrabbit to open the most delectable piece of literature imaginable where you will find yourself mispronouncing and not understanding French words in your head.
This game is exactly what it says it is, I don't know why anyone in their right mind would purchase it but here we are.