Разработчик: Friend Factory
Описание
Inspired by the point and click games of the past, Snowglobe is a virtual reality take on a familiar concept.
In this short adventure game, you'll meet interesting individuals, explore a strange world, and collect items to use in inventive ways to find your way out of the rift.
Coming soon to VR.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10
- Processor: Intel® i5-4590, AMD FX 8350 equivalent or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 970 / AMD Radeon™ R9 290 equivalent or better
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR. Standing or Room Scale
Отзывы пользователей
I really liked this game. The puzzles are a bit obscure sometimes, and there were two which I completed at random (seemingly).
Played v1.02 on the Rift (no official support but mostly worked).
Summary:
- An OK starter VR experience marred by interaction issues and lack of cues
- A very short (< 1 hr) experience vaguely similar to M.I.A.
Observations:
- Now that games suddenly have freely interacting "bodies" instead of decade+ standard controller expectations, devs need to really consider physicality as if they were making actual objects.
- I suggest every VR dev go read something like Don Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things"
- Spending longer reviewing the game than playing it...
Pros:
- Decent atmosphere
- Puzzles provide a "reason" for basic VR interactions like pickup/pull, smash/throw, inventory, and bow
- Animal companions having stronger emotional impact in VR than pancake games
-- BUT, add some interactions. A human instinctively reaches out to pet or scratch their animals.
Cons:
- I assume this was intentional but the 2 voice overs are so distorted I could barely make out 10% of what was said.
-- "you'll meet interesting individuals" implies way more than a couple of 2 sentence VOX
- "In this short adventure game" ... "explore a strange world"
-- Another over-promise. 3 small "rooms" is hardly exploring.
- movement is too limited
-- adding at least of fixed 90 degree rotate would really help. Was constantly craning around and jumping back and forth trying to get the right distance and angle for iteration
- I (and from some videos, others), flailed around too much.
-- picking up and turning screwdriver and picking the lock
--- I somehow opened the chest w/o undoing the chains but couldn't get the treats and had to look online as to how that was supposed to work.
--- Lots of games let you smash or throw a couple items to no real point other than presence. There were a LOT of pots and this felt like that. Had to go online to find that one pot mattered.
--- And again to figure out the turning the screwdriver trick. The picking vs just unlocking was too subtle and needing a cue about the type of interaction.
-- With both audio and visual distraction, didn't see the blue house/etc pieces for several minutes. This was a quite arbitrary interaction with no real mechanical/physical framing for why this puzzle did anything.
-- dog doesn't follow which means a long wait when you realize you need him
-- VR adventure games provide far more points for attempted interaction than a traditional point and click, and "cost" the player far more effort. Therefor the interactions need to be much smoother and more natural to compensate. In this type of game, I want to think things through with my mind not play Twister.
- Some minor annoyances on (unsupported) Rift, see discussion entry.
Snowglobe is a title made by a developer with a lot of promise. If it really was made primarily by one person as it seems, then it's a credit to their talent and resourcefulness.
There are occasional interaction issues, and changing some puzzle cues could have smoothed out unnecessary confusion at a few points. Neither of those problems took me out of the world or stopped me wanting to discover what was behind the next door.
Keep it up!
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Friend Factory |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 22.11.2024 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 67% положительных (3) |