You could make a Black and white Noir game with this.
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Hi. Tried out the game on Quest 1. Interesting concept.
Tech wise. Whenever, I get back into the overview stage, the frame rate gets wonky a bit and it gets a bit dizzy.
Gameplay wise, I would ditch the single headset local multiplayer aspect. Rather just make it a single player turn based game.
However, don't do traditional turn system but rather a real time turn system with time shifts. Every time you take control to a new unit, time shifts back and after all, all units move at the same time during a turn. Have you tried out "Help Yourself" VR game on itch. It has some similar mechanics.
Make a X-Com in VR.
Hello. Enjoy the game.
I am not totally sure about how the play the rhythm part of the game.
There are gates with pulsing colors, there is a black block thing that seems to reduce HP or something. There is a ring thing that I guess is power up. Also Gold Ring at the center on my HUD. Would appreciate definition of what that is.
Hands, once on your way, do they do anything? should I keep fling them around in in launching motion?
Thanks for reading my rant.
In regards to "Having a cockpit without reference points might become nauseating", yes but you don't actually need to make it a transparent ball in a practical sense. You could just implement it in your current cockpit setup without changing anything to the non-control aspect of the game. There is enough field of view to work with. In the practical sense, it is just you and your cockpit is still while the view through your viewport is changing.
"Dragging a virtual handle to rotate the craft will not result in an immediate reaction".. .This maybe true or not. Not sure without trying out implementation. But I think you maybe over thinking the movement.
Don't think "Aerobics" movement in terms of scale. Think "Gun play". Gun play games don't use a large scale of movement but do a lot and fast. Have you played some VR gun play games. Liked "Pistolwhip"?
Oh when I say "drag" , I don't mean (analogy) a car without power steering. More like moving around a virtual mouse upright on a 3D space. With really big lateral movements, you can use a swipe motion like on laptop trackpads but with your hand. Adding some rumble on the controllers would be nice though.
There have been attempts to map flight game controllers to a mouse but were lackluster. Think it would work better in VR.
"Freelancer" comes to mind...
Would it be difficult to get a barebones test using your current game? I just took a few classes in C+ and Java like a decade ago. I don't really know what is required. Was just wondering.
Funny thought: VR game play developers should take mime lessons. Might help with ideas.
Side question: There are 2 machine gun modes in your game. Is it just one is slower than the other?
Fun.
[Sorry for wasting your time! Had a thought stuck in my head and needed to rant!]
I was wondering what you think about VR space fighter control schemes?
Just a thought I had playing indie VR flight games as , while fun, They got dull rather fast. Not enough stimulation. Physical! And They don't have the visuals to compensate for just sitting around moving a few fingers. It is not like you can actually feel the Gs too. There was not too much gained from these games being in VR.
At the present, there is basically only 2 control schemes.
1) Just distribute common gamepad control buttons to VR controllers.
2) OR try to emulate real hands using controls for real life earth bound planes.
All basically not made for VR but for conventional games. You used both. There are other VR flight games on itch that do the same thing.
To be honest, this approach do come off lacking. Mapping gamepad onto VR controllers works on a bare bones level but does not really do anything with 6DOF. Emulating real hands do not work. It does not really work with your game or any other game as it is way too sensitive and lacks grounding point. The only way to solve it is to have a joystick socket for you VR controllers. Some gamers have those I think.
Not trying to be critical as you do a great job with these limited approach.
I was just wondering if you put thought into VR specific control schemes. Those with actual more physical movement regarding the controls. It may be a bit blasphemous for traditional flight gamers like yourself but VR games tend to be more used to physical movement at least with your arms. And it is one of VR charms.
An idea that popped into my head was that there was no real reason to keep the traditional real life joystick controls in VR space fighter games. Those were designed for realistic flight on earth after all. In space, a space fighter would be closer to a submarine. Game wise, it is basically a floating transparent ball with the pilot at the center. It is a floating mobile turret basically.
In this case,the gamepad controls work. But how to add more physical movement to get more stimulation? "Minority Report"-ize it! (Movie reference)
Replace a button press with actual VR controller movement. You can have a floating handle inside the cockpit that you could grab and drag on the XZ axis with the right contoller . Rotate the handle on Y axis for fighter rotation. push for acceleration (Y axis), pull for deceleration (Y axis). You can also orientate the controls on the location of the VR controller whenever the gamer "lets it go and grabs it again" Rather than on the absolute position of the handle at anytime. This would solve some of the issues with the limitation of actual gamer movement. Weapons can be handled by the left controller.
Just A thought! Is this interesting?
A similar but not exact control scheme example would be in the movie "Lost in space" (1998)
Here is a link: 1:40 point!
Again sorry for the rant! Had to get the idea out of my head but had no one to rant to.