Game Ideas in Impossible Spaces
February 1, 2023
So I did the play tests of Out Or Dead and my friends were all enthusiastic. Then I asked them how they liked the slow motion feature. And everybody was like: what? Which one? In the picture above you see the situation they were faced with. There is simply no indication at all what an […]
TL;DR Grab the APK from GitHub Nearly six months ago it all started. Having just received my Quest I instantly felt the urge to get back into game development which I had paused for nearly three years. VR is all about experiences for me. Visit adventurous places. Dare to do crazy things. Feel special. Be […]
Multiple of my posts looked already at different technical aspects of how portals can be realized. Since it is the underlying mechanic for Out Or Dead that should not come as a surprise: Types of portals Snapping Stencil buffer challenges Being four months into development, I have learned a lot and I want to share […]
It’s the dawn of 2019 and a good time for reflection. Back in August shortly after receiving my Quest I began to finally work on a project dear to my heart for so many years now already. The Eternals was an adventure game I always wanted to make but I had to realize I could […]
Having settled on an intended release date for the very first tech demo for end of January, some additional aspects besides the pure game come into the spotlight: A final game name and logo A company name and logo A recognizable communication theme Accounts on social media and discord Accounts on software distribution sites & […]
Since I am working on an Escape Room setting where the player should be allowed to freely walk around in virtual reality without teleporting, the play area becomes hugely important. First the terms: Boundary: The actual line the player has virtually drawn to limit the available play space Play area: The biggest possible rectangle that […]
Back in my initial post on the stencil buffer approach I had used a simple heuristic for setting the correct render queue. As I feared it didn’t hold up for very long. There are not only 2 layers that need to be set. Let’s look at the picture below: What’s going on here? The back […]
It’s Halloween, nobody came this year to get chocolate, and so while I was eating all of it I finished another nice world building feature. I already showed how easy it is now to include mazes. A similar concept but with a totally different feeling in VR is walking on a narrow path up high. […]
What a week. While I was constantly building features into the Maze VR world builder I knew that one topic will not go away: the transitioning between the rooms. I had already thought about the three different options in a blog post before and looked at their pros and cons. More and more I get […]
With the Maze VR world builder constantly learning new tricks, I had somehow forgotten about one really important time-saving feature. All elements that can be put into the world start at their local (0,0,0) and then expand towards z to accommodate different thicknesses of objects. A poster is for example very thing, a wall on […]