Pixel Arcade
The original game is now titled “Pixel Arcade Legacy” on Steam. Released to VR Arcades in south korea, this game still has an active player base and I personally love the game. You will now get to experience an entire codebase revamp, supporting 3D interface elements for VR and support on Quest stand alone.
The game is set in neon cyber space, with a new NPC called “Neon”. They will help and guide you through the levels. The games premise is the same as the original, climb and vault your way through the vertical platform envionment to get your best score and time. Its a calorie burner and stimulating experience for VR where you defy gravity with the coolest locomotion mechanic to hit VR, vaulting. There are new powerups such as a launch pad and the opportunity to play in multiplayer. The game will be release on Oculus first, then can see what the PC port looks like. I suspect a phased launch where multiplayer will come in time.
Portals are also used so NO LOADING SCREENS!
Find Poly
Having developed for the hyper casual market in the past, it was long over due to get a new title released to mobile that contains all my development efforts in this market area. Find poly will be multiplatform, after the mobile launch. Your task is to locate the characters or objects in a fully immersive 3D world where characters interact with the enviornment and have discussions roaming the level. Difficulty will scale based on the complexity of the environment but its mainly an exploration game where you can enjoy small 3D levels that I relish designing once the code base is complete. Again to theme with my hate for loading screens its a nice little async system developed that should keep you interested during load times if you even notice them.
- Interactive
- Cozy chill game, passive
- Minimal UI
- Fun
The idea is to be able to make fun creative enviornments as level design into the future. Id like this to be such a polished core code base and release to the public for decades to come with new content.
Monetization
I want this to be the first true multiplatform game. NO IAPS. Its a live service based game where you should play the game without paying or needing ads. However I am still working this out, to prevent piracy ads are a good angle but I will only allow this if the player wants to watch a video and be rewarded with some bonus gems which will allow you to customize your characters home environment, were props and have a variety of assets to ineract with. Such as sitting down reading a newspaper, playing with a ball, speaking to other AI characters. The idea here is that “poly” in your home base menu will gradually become more and more sentient and you can interact and engage with it, think of a tamagotchi!
This game isnt a techncially difficult game, but the fundementals of game design, optimization and monetization are areas I wanted to prove I could implement. In addition, the real technical aspect of development is thinking of a monetization structure that will allow the game to be played on all platforms Mobile, PC, Switch and VR. To which im thinking of a first person find the character game or a mixed reality experience where you look at a table in your real world and pick the character up so you that you are trying to locate.
When?
This is not my full time gig so can only work on these when my creative itch is needing scratched, which is mostly on Sundays where I even have considered streaming the development on Twitch. So expect years before you see anything, especially with my thesis Audio book adaptation taking my Sundays up just now.
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