FPS games are routinely the most ambitious and expensive titles produced by the industry. The first-person view means the camera will be close to the scenery, which necessitates lots of detail. The genre is both insanely popular and deeply entrenched, meaning gameplay needs to be carefully designed and meticulously polished to even have a chance at standing out from the crowd. The violence creates a desire for context, which leads to cutscenes, which leads to outrageously expensive motion capture and model design, along with professional voice acting. Too much constant shooting gets to be numbing and monotonous, so you break up the firefights with set-piece stunts, moments of visual spectacle, and diverting vehicle sections that basically end up being a mechanically distinct game. (Which must also be carefully tested and balanced.) <\/p>\n
 <\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\nThe point is, these things normally cost money to produce and asking someone to make one in just seven days is completely unreasonable. Projects like Receiver must therefore strip the genre down to its bare elements to even have a prayer at making something playable in the given timeframe. In Receiver the story is nothing more than a series of mysterious audio logs. The environments are stark, simple, and procedurally generated. The gameplay is focused on two simple enemies.<\/p>\n The gimmick here is that the guns aren’t just visually modeled after real-world firearms. These guns are little mechanical simulations, complete with all the moving parts and complexities. Don’t hop in here thinking you’re going to Call of Duty your way to victory. After a few minutes with Receiver, the idea of tapping the R key to reload a firearm will seem as ludicrous as a driving game where your only input is the throttle. If you’re used to reloading your weapon every couple of shots just to make sure you’re always full, then this game will very quickly make it clear why people don’t do this in real life. <\/p>\n In Receiver, you’ve got a button to eject the current magazine, a button to put the firearm away so you’re now holding just the magazine because this is a two-handed job, another button to insert rounds into the mag one at a time, another button to retrieve the weapon, another to insert the mag, and another to release the slide lock. If you want to know how many shots you’ve got left and you’ve been forgetting to keep track, then you pull the mag and count them up. <\/p>\n
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