I’m still of the mind that VR is nothing but another fad along the lines of motion control. Look, I’ve been here beore in the early 90s when we were told VR was the future. Like then, the people behind the technology have missed the point that it’s too damn expensive and there are no killer apps.
That said, the Kickstarter campaign for Outer Brain Studios’s VR survival horror experience ORGAN QUARTER has shot past the halfway mark of its crowdfunding goal. And from looking it over it seems to be the first actual game built for VR and not just some little add-on. The projct has now broken over $3,250 in pledges. The Kickstarter campaign features 9 pledge tiers and is being run primarily to fund the developers’ living costs for the development period.
The Kickstarter wraps on 10 March and the team are targeting July 2017 for the final game’s launch, so the game seems to be well on its way.
Organ Quarter is a VR survival horror adventure. Its pre-alpha demo currently has a 93% overall rating on Steam which is impressive for any title, not just a VR one. The game is focused on capturing what made survival horror great: labyrinthine environments, resource management and well-balanced puzzling. We’d love to pay homage to the slow, methodical survival horror experiences of the ’90s – this includes building a compelling world and universe as well as making a great adventure.
The game is being designed to leverage hand-tracked and room-scale VR to provide the most intense and unsettling experience possible. We’re going to bring horror into the realm of the intimate. Horror in your personal space, as well as in the world outside.
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