It's not really a game, Boxroom. At least, it doesn't seem to be. But
the idea of it intrigues me. Boxroom links to your Steam library and
lets you create a room where you can display your games as virtual
boxes, making the perfect gaming den.*
It's not a game launcher; no, instead, it's the virtual equivalent of
a Rachid Loftf painting.** Is it a game worth paying for? Probably
not... although I am tempted to see how many games it could actually
handle. Do you think I could make it buffer overflow with my library?
Oddly, I once tried something similar, albeit with D&D PDF files and
HTML instead of a 3D-rendered room. It essentially auto-rendered a
bookshelf and the goal was --when you clicked on one of the books-- it
would 'pull out' and show you a rotatable 3D model of the book, with
the cover and back textured with the actual book covers. Then
double-clicking on the book would open the PDF. But I never got much
farther than the basic framework and ultimately gave it up as too much
work for too little gain. ;-)
But it just shows that there's a desire to give our digital assets
some sense of tangibility.
Anyway, I thought it was neat.
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* Boxroom not yet available here
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/p4jo8c/family_game_rooms_in_the_late_90s_artwork_by/
** example here
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fgscdz3qn3fh71.jpg%3Fwidth%3D2600%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dff51ea4a25a5141e22925c3a372bacf664be08f9&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=c15a8388cb35bc589f247153629c7de0511cf306fc234e88c4eed9170c6f1517
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