VRMultigames game project, Released for free on Oculus and Steam

Created 1 month after i got an HTC Vive, its a pack of 4 prototypes i coded, one week for each.

Minigames:

Drone Assault game Video. In this prototype you fight a lot of flying enemies with your pistol and a lightsaber. The game lets the enemies fly close enough to you that you can strike them with the lightsaber. Bullet boucing is done with some physical formulas. If you strike the lightsaber at a bullet, this explodes. You can also destroy bullets by shooting them with the gun. It is designed so you can move around to dodge most bullets, but there are a bullet type that homes on the player, so the player has to block it somehow.

Goalkeeper. Video You have huge hands on sticks, and defend against 3 football cannons that fire in increased rates. The hard part of this game is the fact that the cannons are placed in a way that they are just outside of FOV, so you need to be aware of the 3d sound for each, and react fast enough.

Last Stand Video Player has a bow, and has teleport movement. He needs to survive against increasing waves of enemies. This was a precursor to DWVR, wich took the same movement style and some gameplay cues. In this game, there are 4 different types of enemies (sword enemy, sword and shield enemy, gun enemy, and flying drone). The sword and the shield enemies just run to the player and try to strike melee. The gun enemy just has very minor AI to try to not expose itself too much, and to attack at a range. The drones are flying around the map and shoot the player from a distance. The bow mechanics are very polished, and there is a gimmick where you can both block melee attacks and bullets with your bow. You can also use the bow like a staff and hit enemies directly with it.

Shootout Video The most polished prototype. This one was not part of the initial pack of prototypes, and thus it has a different launch option in steam. This is a prototype for a time crysis style game for VR. In here, the player goes from cover point to cover point, advancing through the level. The enemies are very simple ranged combatants wich take cover and try to fire at the player. This minigame has gameplay mechanics that were later used in Robo Recall and Artika 1, more than a year before those games happened. For the gun reloading, the player has to throw the guns, and grab new ones from either the environment (stealing weapons from enemies) or from their infinite supply of respawning weapons in the waist. This prototype tried to see how telekinesis powers would work, and there is a lot of physical interaction with the level. You can use the telekinesis to steal enemies weapons, or grab objects and throw them. The map has lots of explosive barrels you can grab and shoot. I really liked this prototype, and playtesters also loved it. It did not become a full project squarely due to budget.

VRMultigames biggest downside is how ugly it is, given that i made it alone in barely a few weeks. Most of its art is just default unreal engine assets. The lightsaber, pistol, drones, and bow were made by me. I used this project to analyze what players liked to play, and what kind of gameplay do they prefer. For this release, i added a considerable amount of analytics, to see what games were the most played. more than 40.000 players tried this game, and the most succesful prototype was the Last Stand minigame, wich eventually became DWVR. If this had actual art, and a month or 2 of polish, it could have been sold as a real product.

Credits:

Marketplace - Environment Assets and characters.

Victor Blanco - All code, Pistol, Bow, Shield, Lightsword, Drone 3d models.