![]() For every successful activity completed, you gain a point, which is then stored on your interactive wristwatch. ![]() Luckily, Vacation Simulator features three wildly-different ‘Destinations’ to explore: Vacation Beach, Vacation Forest, and Vacation Mountain each of which featuring their own set of activities to complete as well as Vacation bots to assist. Of course, it wouldn’t be a vacation without spending some time in the good old outdoors. You’ll begin your much-needed rest and relocation in your own futuristic bungalow, complete with a fully decked-out snack station, a personal computer with access to over four websites, luxurious sleeping amenities, an entertainment area complete with video game console–which you can find games for scattered throughout the world–and a spacious bathroom where you can change your hair, skin, and other physical features. Set to the backdrop of a relaxing vacation getaway, players are given an extensive variety of relaxation-inducing activities set across three colorful locales in which to partake. Widely-regarded as one of the first true AAA VR gaming experiences released on Vive, the title tasked players with performing over-the-top approximations of real-world jobs to the delight of a sarcastic cast of retro-futuristic robots fascinated with the mundane work-lives of human beings.Īvailable now on SteamVR and Oculus Rift, Vacation Simulator doubles-down on everything that made Job Simulator so fantastic, while at the same time injecting a refreshing sense of exploration and creativity to the existing formula. When Owlchemy labs released its freshmen effort Job Simulator back in 2016, I don’t think the team was fully aware of the impact their deceitfully-simple game would have on the budding VR industry. I don’t think a customer ever thinks a platform-exclusive game is a good thing.Trade in your cubicle for a snorkel in this delightful follow-up to the 2016 smash hit. We want to do everything we can to make sure VR succeeds, regardless of the platform. “We don’t think that’s a good thing for the industry, especially in VR where we’re starting out with a promise of presence after so many years. One thing HTC Vive and Valve are not focusing on with the virtual reality lineup are exclusive games. “As developers continue to explore VR, you’ll see longer and longer game experiences,” Faliszek says. HTC and Valve also combine a series of demos together into 15- to 30-minute experience that can connect with different gamers. Gamers will have a variety of game genres and prices to choose from at launch, including some free-to-play demos, some longer experiences, single-player games, and multiplayer and social games.įaliszek says that while individual demos such as the ones at GDC are typically 3½ minutes long, the actual depth of gameplay will range based on developers. ![]() “This will speed up the process of designing VR games and companies will save time and money through shorter development schedules,” Faliszek says. Faliszek points to Stress Level Zero’s Hover Junkers and Survio’s Raw Data as two examples. Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter.Ī growing trend across virtual reality, which also is evident with HTC (HTC) Vive, is multiplayer and social offerings. Among the free content is The Lab, a collection of eight mini-games set within Portal’s universe that includes activities such as fixing a robot, defending a castle, walking on Mars, and adopting a mechanical dog.įaliszek believes the three HTC Vive games everyone will be talking about at GDC this year are Indimo Labs’ deep role-playing game, Vanishing Realms: Rite of Steel VR Unicorns’ #Selfie Tennis, a wacky cartoonish tennis game in which you play against yourself and The Brookhaven Experiment, a horror shooter game featuring assorted scary monsters. In addition to offering gamers a trio of free virtual reality games- Job Simulator, Fantastic Contraption, and Google Tilt Brush-Valve is also giving away more content to early adopters. According to Chet Faliszek, writer and virtual reality evangelist at Valve, 50 developers already have HTC Vive store pages on SteamVR that could begin selling content today.
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