[APK] SteamCrew VR

[KominAaa]

Hello everyone! We are a 4 people team from Agharta Studio and Blackmuffin, we worked on EpicDragon VR for 2013's VR Jam.

Our game is called SteamCrew VR and it offers players to play as treasure hunters Captain' Karkass and Ida Steele, crew of pirate steam submarine Rocketshrimp.
On a quest for the magical gems of the darkest abysses, they will face both the mysterious guardians of Yyl and vicious rival pirate submarines!

Challengepost link!



SteamCrew VR is now available for download!

The game requires 2 Gears on the same WiFi network to play.
It's not yet possible to steer the sub playing solo, we are working on that.




INSTRUCTIONS

- Pilot's seat, is responsible for navigation, steam tanks positions are marked on the Gyro Ring. STEER the ship through gaze while HOLDING on the touchpad. SWIPE FORWARD to ACCELERATE. SWIPE BACKWARD to REVERSE, engine consume steam. Check the submarine's steam level and current consumption. Toggles LIGHTS on/off by TAPPING on the button. Turning it off saves steam. At the gunner's signal, TAPPING on handles to FIRE torpedoes or rocket.

- Gunners's seat, is responsible for observation. detects enemy positions by TAPPING on the Sonar's button. AIM and lead targets with the turret through gaze while HOLDING on the touchpad. Shoot the back of enemies to score Critical hits (x2 damage) SWIPE UPWARD to CLIMB. SWIPE DOWNWARD to DIVE. Check the submarine's steam level and current consumption. Use Gyro Ring ring to communicate enemy position to the Pilot.

The game requires a lot of teamwork, communication and coordination.
So far our record is around 600.000 🙂

We'll be posting an instructional video soon to explain the gameplay in a more pleasant way.

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The last jam was a very cool experience so we thought we'd enter this one!

The project will be running on Unity4; that's a big challenge for us since we have no prior Unity experience 🙂

I'll try to update this devblog is often as we can with bits of game design, visuals, screenshots and hopefully videos (once we manage to record stuff on the Gear! )

In the meantime, we wish everybody good luck and great fun 🙂

Edit 04-23-2015: Logo Added
Edit 05-11-2015: APK Released
Edit 05-12-2015: Added Gameplay Video
Edit 05-19-2015: Switching all pictures from forum hosted to outside host

[KominAaa]

"spinaljack" wrote:
soooo cool

Thanks! We hope to have something really exciting with the next video through dodging torpedoes and more balanced stuff 🙂

[Hirdannen]

That is really some Impressive work. You took a challenge by trying multiplayer over Wifi with GearVR. I fear for your phone's temperature after a few minutes...

Do you make some demonstrations of SteamCrew around Paris ? If you want some additionnal feedbacks...

Update: I didn't see the "multi-user interaction" criteria for this VR Jam. Now I understand why 🙂

[KominAaa]

"hirdannen" wrote:
That is really some Impressive work. You took a challenge by trying multiplayer over Wifi with GearVR. I fear for your phone's temperature after a few minutes...
Do you make some demonstrations of SteamCrew around Paris ? If you want some additionnal feedbacks...

Thank you 🙂 Yes, we work really hard on it these days, understand unity and getting it to do what we need is a challenge in itself.

We're in Lyon so I don't think we'll be able to demo the game in Paris during the jam but we might get there after it's done!

[cocopunch]

Hi! We would like to share with you guys an other WIP for the interior of submarine.



enjoy it!

[nilstastic]

Very interesting to see. Could you talk about the texturing process, are you using photoshop 3d mode?

[cocopunch]

"nilstastic" wrote:
Very interesting to see. Could you talk about the texturing process, are you using photoshop 3d mode?

Thank you!

I have screenshot of 3d model in blender, and after in photoshop ,it's just a 2D overpaint. Like a painting, you work lights and materials with brush and other tools.

[Gerald]

I had no idea you can do that in photoshop!! I still have so much to learn and I really, really wanna learn how to do that!!

Thanks for sharing and love your artstyle 🙂

[spinaljack]

So does that 2D painting end up on the 3D models?

[cocopunch]

"spinaljack" wrote:
So does that 2D painting end up on the 3D models?

There's a misunderstanding, it's not for the ingame version, it's just a concept art. Kominaaa have made the final texture on Blender with the help of our concepts.

IF you want check other works:
http://blackmuffinstudio.com

And really thanks for yours feedbacks!

[Gerald]

ahhhh ... still awesome, but I feel less of a need to learn it now ^^