Special Delivery [Oculus Touch] - Updated with VirZOOM and Gamepad Support!

[nobylspoon]

Steam Store: http://store.steampowered.com/app/561230

Gameplay Footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9soAQXZowEg

[nobylspoon]

My project for today 🙂

[RABID]

nate1380 said:

CrashFu said:

nobylspoon said:

CrashFu said:

I feel obligated to pick this game up just so I can try playing it on my VirZoom bike.

My actual Paperboy experience is a bit limited, but I do remember that my strat was always to try and keep only a single house on my route, so I could grind points terrorizing every other house on the block.

Although it won't be available on Day-1, we're looking into adding official support for the VirZoom. 

Awesome!  Have you been talking with the VirZoom guys already, then?

I'd be glad to participate in any kind of alpha or beta testing of the VirZoom support, by the way. Help iron out the bugs, give feedback on how that changes the game experience, stuff like that.  :smiley:

Yep!  We've already been in contact with them.

this would make me buy one.

[nobylspoon]

We're excited to announce that we will be releasing on Oculus and Steam this Friday!

[dinoroger]

nobylspoon said:

CrashFu said:

I feel obligated to pick this game up just so I can try playing it on my VirZoom bike.

My actual Paperboy experience is a bit limited, but I do remember that my strat was always to try and keep only a single house on my route, so I could grind points terrorizing every other house on the block.

Although it won't be available on Day-1, we're looking into adding official support for the VirZoom. 

Awesome I have one of those bikes. Let me know if you need testing.

[nobylspoon]

Forgot to mention the price will be $9.99 and it will have a 10% off launch discount. 

[nobylspoon]

Only 1 more day until release. Here's some reading material while you wait 🙂

[Iblysi]

Looking forward to play this!

[nobylspoon]

Special Delivery is now available on Steam and is expected to be made available later today on Oculus Home. 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/561230

EDIT: It's now available on Oculus Store! 

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1161355957279138/

[Synthetic]

First the Vive divided the VR community then it gets divided again with the controllers

some people dont have the controllers yet and there is no way to sort/play games that use them

[CrashFu]

Wow, this is even more brutal than actual Paperboy.   Hard to say what "needs fixed" and what I just need to get better at avoiding;  I'll just say what came to mind immediately and you can tell me whether it's the game or just me :tongue:

Weird alarm sound followed by invisible, unavoidable death?  What's that all about?

Cars incoming from right lane:  Even if I pull hard to the left when I hear them behind me, I can't get over fast enough to not get hit. Am I just supposed to avoid biking in the right lane at all times (like some sort of sensible cyclist)?

Cross-traffic / Brakes:  The bike's brakes seem really.. really.. REALLY ineffective. Most of the time I can't slow down enough to not get nailed by the cross traffic at intersections because of it.

Tornado:  Holy guacamole, how big is the hitbox on this thing?  The tornado itself seems to take up the entire road, and even if I go onto the sidewalk I get nailed by flying debris.  Is there a way to avoid that?

UI interaction:  the distance your finger has to be from the paper is a little too precise, makes it hard to actually interact with the menus.

Game Controls Screen:   This needs to stay up a little longer, or require an input prompt before advancing.  Maybe some more basic info on how the bike controls work? Granted, it's mostly common-sense stuff, but it did take me a few clueless deaths before I (think I) figured it out.   A tutorial / practice level might be nice, to ease in new players and let them get used to how the bike handles and how the paper physics work without the risk of death every half-second would be nice, too.

Questions about future VirZoom support:   So is the idea that we'll play with one Touch controller and one hand on the (actual) bike's handle controls?  Will steering be lean-based in this input method (as most VirZoom games are) or will it retain the Touch-handlebar-interaction steering of the default input methods?

Looking forward to playing more after I get home from work. Try not to laugh too hard at my -200 on the leaderboards in the meantime  :lol: