Crooked Sheriff VR
A downloadable game for Windows
Overview / Usage
Real escape the room venues are great, but there is are inherent issues with replay ability and space. While lack of replay ability is self-explanatory, the space limitations are maybe not so obvious. The escape the room venues can only have so much space, and can only create a limited number of experiences for their customers, experiences that get stale once completed. The goal of this project is to explore whether current state-of-the-art VR is a viable alternative to solve both of the problems listed above.
Methodology / Approach
We have approached development from an industry standard PoV. We took the Vive VR plugin for Unity which works well with OpenVR (unified VR platfrom that seamlessly integrates with other VR platforms).
The biggest issue with the overall experience is mapping physical interactions into the game, as the user's hand are physically unbound in the real-world. Because of this we had to scale down the initial ambitions we had for the project.
The Alienware PC is an ideal hardware platform for our development needs. It is a power house that allows us to iterate very fast and allows us to concentrate on what's important to us - creating content.
The Oculus VR with hand motion controllers is also a breeze to set up and very easy to use and iterate with. A big plus is that it's compliant with the OpenVR platform along with other major VR headsets and that allows us to develop with one platform and have confidence that the experience will translate to other VR headsets.
Disclaimer This project was seeded with an Alienware PC and a Oculus VR headset and motion controllers. While this has in no way impacted our views about the hardware, we still felt it was necessary to be up-front about this aspect.
Technologies Used
Alienware PC Oculus VR set Unity, Visual Studio, Blender, Photoshop Unity Valve VR plugin, OpenVR
As this is a prototype, some of the puzzles may not be that self-explanatory, in case you get stuck please refer to this playthrough:
If you have questions or feedback drop us a line at rotsin.ro [at] gmail [dot] com
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I really like the idea behind this but I felt like I had to break the game a few times and restart before understanding what it wanted from me. The in game text is far too small and was impossible to read on the Rift, particularly on the note under the bread. It took me three restarts to figure out the little stick was a file, but once you're out of the cell it drops drastically in difficulty. The lever puzzle and finding all the lanterns was a breeze. Though I had no idea where to even start with the safe. I still don't know if it was based on audio clues on the dial, the underlined numbers in the environment or something else. Again, the text on the dial was unreadable in the Rift, I could only tell something was written there and they might have been numbers.