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A jam submission

Bug Bill VRView game page

Try to bug your friend Beetle Bill who lives across the street in any way possible.
Submitted by GameJay2112 — 10 hours, 24 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#1782.9403.143
Theme interpretation#2562.8063.000
Overall#2622.6732.857
Audio#2732.2722.429
Gameplay#2802.4052.571
Graphics#3592.0042.143

Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

GitHub repository URL:
https://github.com/GameJay/BugBillVR

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Like many others I sadly don't have the necessary equipment/setup to enjoy the experience as designed. Doing a VR game has always intrigue me especially those who do it for a game jam seeing that the majority of users won't be able to play the game which is a good thing you added a video to show what the game is about. 

I find it cheating to rate/comment based on footage alone but seeing is all I have to go by, well that and the description, that's my only option currently. I like the interpretation of the theme as it has been the most unique take on it I have seen so far. It looks like there's many interest ways in accomplishing the goal that can be accomplished out of order and that's always a plus in my book. I movement, as portrait in the video, did make it a bit jarring for me which makes me wonder if perhaps VR games would not be something my eyes/mind could handle.

Might be cool if a non-vr port could be made to see all of the ways I can annoy my friend and see what how they feel about hanging out with me after I kept bugging them :P

Developer

Thank you for watching our playthrough! We're glad to hear you enjoyed the game. We definitely want to expand the game as well as expand to other platforms, porting to PC would be a snap so that's a great idea. We really appreciate your constructive feedback.

Submitted(+1)

Couldn't play as I don't have a VR but watched the playthrough. Seems like a good time. Loved the sound design and sense of humor. Thanks for posting a video for those of us who can't play to check out. 

Developer

Thank you for watching our playthrough, we're so glad to hear you enjoyed it!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

I wasn't able to play, so I just watched the video.

The concept is very unique, and a creative take on the theme.

The graphics are pretty simplistic, to the point where it's sometimes hard to tell what something is. The objects snapping together is pretty satisfying.

Some of the puzzles seem a bit esoteric... why would turning your own light off and on bother your neighbor? Or calling a pizza restaurant?

Developer

Thank you for your review and thank you for watching our playthrough. Yeah, I made the gun mesh myself since my artist didn't have enough time to make a gun, so the gun looks awful but I thought all of the other objects were fine (maybe also the air horn?). Also, if I had more time I was going to add a dialogue that shows that you are ordering a whole bunch of pizza to be delivered to Bug Bill's house which he never wanted. Still a bit of a stretch but the dialogue would have made that much more clear. As for the lights, I've had a neighbor get pissed that I was turning on and off the lights so I put that in; I didn't really consider that it really wouldn't be very bothersome for most people so I'll probably end up taking that out. Thank you so much for your constructive feedback, it is very much appreciated.

Submitted(+1)

Nice job making a VR game! The sound effects made me chuckle and the questionably shaped objects :p Congrats on your entry and best of luck!

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much for playing our game! We're really glad to hear it made you laugh

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

It Was fun to play! Now i know to use oculus developer hub, thank you! Overall to be your first game nice jobb guys :)

Developer(+1)

I'm so glad you played our game and that you had a fun time! Thank you so much for your feed back.

Developer

We have posted a full playthrough of the game at Bug Bill VR Playthrough - YouTube or embedded at Bug Bill VR by GameJay2112 (itch.io) for those who don't have access to play the game. 

Submitted(+1)

Funny game with a great concept haha

Developer

Thank you for playing! I'm glad you liked it

Developer (1 edit)

Use Oculus Developer Hub in order to install and play this for right now. Looking for an easier fix but the Oculus Developer Hub successfully installs the game and launches.

Submitted

Couldn't get it to boot on my Oculus Quest 2 (installed through SideQuest).

:(

Developer

Oh no, I'll look into it. My artist is my tester and he somehow got it to work. Thank you for letting me know.

Developer (1 edit)

Got it working with less than 10 minutes to spare. Artist says it works for his sideloader which apparently isn't SideQuest, but I recreated the issue (endless loading and eventually the apk doesn't respond) and found out it was a single tickbox (for distribution) that needed unticked during packaging to fix the issue. Should work with SideQuest now but the upload is taking FOREVER. Might not make the deadline. Upload started at 4:28pm EST.


UPDATE: Still not working with SideQuest, for right now installing the .apk through Oculus Developer Hub appears to be the easiest solution.

Developer

It still won't work with SideQuest for some reason

Submitted

I can get it to install on my Oculus from both Oculus Developer Hub and Sidequest.  The app itself fails to load.  When I try load it, I get three dots endlessly until it crashes.

Developer

When we uninstall the SideQuest install of BugBillVR and reinstall it with ODH it works. The endless loading only happens for us when we use SideQuest or don't uninstall it. It could be that somehow it only works for our Oculus Quest 2s but that doesn't make sense.

Submitted

I've uninstalled and reinstalled many times.

Developer

With our systems the ODH installs the game and it runs successfully. I am at a loss for why this would be happening on some systems. When I get back home from work I'll try to find a fix. I'm really sorry this is causing so much trouble

Submitted

If you want, I can take a look at the source code.

Developer

It's made in Unreal 5.0EA2 with blueprints. I'm betting the problem is because of one of the many early access bugs but I can't find anything about it.

Submitted (1 edit)

I've gotten stuff from UE 5 to run on my Oculus.

Developer (1 edit)

My meaning was that they (the devs who have released VR with Unreal5) must have some fix that I don't know about yet since I've already had to use several rinky-dink workarounds to get almost anything related to Oculus VR in Unreal 5 to work properly. I would try deleting the old .apk and redownloading it from our game's main page. Uninstall old BugBillVR from your Oculus and install the new one with ODH. It's worked on multiple devices now so I'm wondering what strange problem is resulting for it to still endlessly load on your device. So far, we can only recreate it using an old build (a build that at latest came out ~10 hours before the final) or by installing with SideQuest instead of ODH or the Unreal 5's built in sideloader. I'm guessing that if it still doesn't work after redownloading and reinstalling then it must be some bug that has to do with Unreal 5.0EA2 that I haven't learned the workaround for yet. We really want to figure out why it won't launch on your system but so far it looks like the only fixes would have to do with making a new patch to the file which would not be the same file we submitted for the jam.