ShowdownVR

Test your limits in an atmospheric battle arena by dodging enemy projectiles, scoring points, earning action points with combos and using them to ultimately crush your foes with counter attacks. Enjoy the perks of slowing down time, teleporting around an open world, even taking over and steering a ship in the middle of a mighty ocean!
Choosing between five intensity difficulties and two playing styles offers a wide range of experience with a chance to gradually improve your skills. Compete as an individual while also representing your country and continent on the leaderboards.
ShowdownVR is shipping with some of the world’s first technologies used in VR: NVIDIA’s WaveWorks, NVIDIA’s Multi-Res Shading, and also my own version of the tech called Dynamic Multi-Res Shading (DMRS). All are built-in with an extended menu for full customization and benchmarking.

Key features:

Immersive virtual reality carnage
2 × 2 km wide open world battle arena
Five difficulty levels
Two game modes: The One and Dodger
Fully dynamic world
Leaderboards: Continent, Country, Individual
NVIDIA WaveWorks for real-time ocean simulation
NVIDIA Multi-Res Shading + Dynamic Multi-Res Shading
Heavily inspired by Matrix, Quake and Doom; fast, intensive, powerful, unforgiving.

Gameplay

There is a wide variety of approaches for players to use. The goal is very simple: score the largest amount of points possible in the time given to you. By dodging plasma projectiles you gain points and combos to earn action points. These can be used for the following perks: teleporting, attack, multi-attack, slowing down time. By killing your foes you gain additional time, which enables you to score more points. Enemies can be killed by your projectiles or can get run over by a ship that you can control at any time, even when you're not on it. They can also get knocked out and drown when hit by a larger wave. When you get hit, you don't gain a point and your combo progress decreases. This makes it harder to gain action points that enable the use of player's abilities - which in return enable player to gain more points.

Tech

ShowdownVR will be accompanied by a release of a ~40 page white paper for free in a form of blog and for a simbolic price on Amazon Kindle. Everyone who bought the game will be entitled to claim a free Kindle copy. The paper focuses on the use of advanced rendering techniques used and developed for creating high performance, complex, dynamic open worlds in VR.

Gameworks

Quick word on using NVIDIA's tech. The exact tech specifications will be available in white paper released with the game. But there is a very fundemental, objective reason for using these features: it's the best performing piece of code out there. It's important to remember that most problems with GM come with bad implementations. Showdown's water takes about 1ms on CPU and about as much on GPU, no matter the GPU brand! Everything is controlled by me in Unreal's source code, there is no over-tesselation or any similar bottlenecks. Multi-Res Shading works only on NVIDIA and is a bonus option.
Nejc L.,
Frontseat Studio