Practisim Designer

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Practisim Designer is a single player casual simulation game. It was developed by AncientSky Games and was released on February 14, 2023. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players.

Practisim Designer is a sandbox for budding or expert stage designers to create innovative stage designs for the practical shooting sports like USPSA, IPSC, Steel Challenge, IDPA and others. This tool allows you to drop in props from a library of hundreds of items. Stage designers can also simulate actually running through the stage with support for real physics based mechanisms like swingers, dro…

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Audience ScoreBased on 63 reviews

gameplay1 negative mentions

Practisim Designer is an excellent and practical tool for stage design, making it easy to create detailed stage layouts and PDFs for setup crews.
The software is user-friendly and quick to learn, with helpful YouTube tutorials that enhance the learning experience.
It offers robust features for designing stages for various shooting sports, with a responsive developer and an active community for support.

Practisim Designer is not a game and lacks meaningful gameplay loops, leading to confusion about its placement in the Steam marketplace.
The software has a steep learning curve for some users, and there are reports of functionality issues, particularly on MacOS.
Despite being free, the public reception has been poor, with very few concurrent users and a lack of engagement from the gaming community.

gameplay
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The gameplay aspect of the software has been criticized for lacking any meaningful interactions or gameplay loops, resulting in a non-engaging experience.
- “There are no gameplay loops in this software, no 'gameplay', no meaningful game-like interaction.”
stability
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The stability of the system is improving, as it effectively saves time in stage design and reduces troubleshooting efforts on match day, though it still requires further development to be fully reliable for producing handoff documents.
- “It's still not quite where it needs to be to produce a stage description document you can hand to people to build a stage at a match, but it saves me time designing them and has reduced the time spent troubleshooting when I put them on the ground come match day.”