In this episode, Ronnie provides his impressions of Space Junkies, a zero-gravity VR multiplayer shooting game currently in development at Ubisoft Montpellier.  Ronnie had a blast in the 2v2 player matches he played.  In addition to his overall impressions of the game so far, Ronnie shares his thoughts on the game’s excellent movement and full-body avatar systems. Hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!

In this episode, Ronnie interviews Danielle Burnstein, Director of Project Management at Sixense in San Francisco, CA. If you have ideas for leveraging VR in new and exciting ways for your company or industry more generally, Sixense is the company that can bring those ideas to reality. Danielle speaks to Ronnie about what Sixense is all about, some of the projects it is working on, […]

In this episode, Ronnie interviews Ian Rooke, Lead Designer of Archiact VR’s upcoming VR title “Evasion.”  Evasion is a sci-fi, bullet hell shooter that focuses on class-based multiplayer co-op.  From destructible cover to interactive projectiles, Evasion is built from the ground up to be a virtual reality experience and in the demo Archiact was showing off at GDC 2018, this really showed.  Ian speaks to why their team […]

In this episode, Ronnie interviews Henry Halvorson (Audio Engineer) and Hunter Kitagawa (Director of Marketing) from Survios about the company’s upcoming VR music “Electronauts.”  Set to release later this year, Henry and Hunter explain how the company’s passion for music creation led them to develop a game that is both deep, but also accessible to players that have never experienced the rush of creating music themselves.  Survios […]

In this episode, Ronnie interviews Adam Volker (Game Creative Director) and Bohden Sayre (Game Director) from Flight School Studio about their upcoming April 3, 2018 release of “Island Time.”  Players are tasked with finding a way to survive as long as possible (typically anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes or so) on a small island where their only companion is a comedic crab voiced by Kinda Funny’s […]

In this episode, Ronnie interviews Trevor Blom, Lead Programmer at Vertigo Games to discuss the team’s upcoming release of its first campaign expansion DLC for Arizona Sunshine, titled “Dead Man.”  “Arizona Sunshine: Dead Man DLC” is actually a prequel to the original game.  In Ronnie’s interview, Trevor speaks to what Vertigo Games was going for when developing this new campaign and to what players will finally get […]

In this episode, Ronnie interviews Joel Breton (VP, Global Content at HTC VIVE) and Paolo Werbrouck (Director, Program Management and New Technologies at IGT) about their companies’ recently-announced partnership to bring continued VR content to the casino entertainment industry.  Joel and Paolo discuss how HTC Vive and IGT’s partnership was formed, how their current VR experiences in operation in Las Vegas work, and what the two […]

In this episode, Ronnie interviews Steven Won, CEO of Naviworks, and Angela Park, the company’s Overseas Marketing Division Director, to discuss the studios’ upcoming PC VR title “Battle X: Birth of the Alliance.” Naviworks’ personnel has nearly two decades of expertise in creating military and public simulation software. Set to release in the near future, with Battle X, Naviworks hopes to bring its unique skillset […]

In today’s episode, Ronnie talks shop with Eugene Elkin, Software Engineer and Project Lead for Survios’ upcoming title “Creed: Rise to Glory.”  The team at Survios is looking to “solve” melee combat as a VR gaming mechanic with their new upcoming title.  What better way to do so than to work with MGM to provide players with a chance to live out their fantasies in Creed/Rocky film […]

In today’s episode, we chat about Ronnie’s experience over the first 2 days at GDC/VRDC. He had a chance to sample many games, attend panels, and chat with developers so we quickly touch on those in our conversation. The game he mentions at the end – Downward Spiral – is linked to below on Steam. http://store.steampowered.com/app/574940/Downward_Spiral_Prologue/ Hope you enjoy and thanks for listening!