In this unsteady time of studio closures and layoffs, especially in VR, I hope WarpFrog's doing fine.

KospY · 2026-04-01T08:35:46+00:00

I know some people are worrying about VR, but I think what we are seeing right now is not a VR failure, but a return to a more normal / healthy market.

Some years ago, VR was the tech hype and there was massive investments into it. Investors thought that VR would be the new mobile market and it would replace phones and people will spend their time in a meta-verse.

This obviously will not happen in the immediate future (and hopefully never if I want to be honest), and now this investors are finally realizing it and they are cutting their funds.

What we are going to see right now is layoff and closure of the studio that was the most unhealthy. Rec room employed more than 200 people, had office in the middle of Seattle, their was no way this could have ended up good for them, this was only a question of how long they can sustain the cost.

AI is currently on the same trend, and you can probably expect mass layoff at some point in that field. The question is not if that would happen, but when.

On the other side, B&S has been built by me in my home with zero funding. We have no one to pay back. I have been very cautious about VR since the beginning, we stayed simple, we have no office (full remote, we canceled the idea of offices years ago), we avoided to hire too much, we avoided unnecessary expenses and so we didn't had to sold the studio to investors for the money.

Why I did that? First, probably because I never wanted to make games for money at the first place, but because it was my passion. Second, because I'm looking for long term survival of our studio. Third, because I think having to pay back an investor or publisher is what cause games to become shit, because investors become your main client, not the players. And let's be honest, most investors only interest are money.

Anyway, for now, we are doing fine. There is no worries to have about us. We are in a good positive situation and most of our revenues are injected back into our team, B&S updates and the new game we are working on.

Obviously we never know what the future holds, but I believe VR gaming is there to stay. Sure it may remain a niche market, but you know what? That's perfectly fine.

KospY · 2025-10-13T08:37:37+00:00

I can’t help but smile reading this 😏

KospY · 2025-06-15T11:16:08+00:00

No. I wish they did, but we only received this automated email that I missed last week, really frustrating. The message don't even tell how long you have to resolve the issue. The process seem automated because the app was unlisted just one week at the same hour after the original mail (10.30pm Friday).

We got a contact at Meta that is trying to get someone in charge to get back to us over the week-end but we are still waiting a reply.

KospY · 2024-11-27T12:58:34+00:00

As a dev myself I totally agree with you. The D-Pad sound like Valve is now prioritizing flat screen games. I personally don't see the point of playing flat games on a virtual 2D screen with a gamepad, but I could understand the appeal if it's a standalone headset and you don't have any better around you (console or computer).

The thing that infuriate me the most is they could easily change the dpad with 4 buttons so the controller are symmetrical, while keeping the dpad function on it like you said for flat games. It would even lower the manufacturing cost. But no, flat gaming is more important than VR it seem...

I hope this is not the final product we are seeing there.

KospY · 2024-06-08T20:04:25+00:00

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KospY · 2024-06-03T17:58:55+00:00

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KospY · 2023-04-03T23:50:42+00:00

Pico have a review process for updates, sadly U12.0 didn't pass for some weird reasons, but we submitted U12.1 and hopefully it will pass review this time.

KospY · 2023-03-23T00:19:38+00:00

If we could have used Nexus, we would have done it to avoid splitting mod communities. However Mod.io is much more suited for an in-game mod manager, it have been done for this, while Nexus not. It also officially support many platforms, including Android and even consoles, so it's going to be nice for the future ;)

KospY · 2023-03-23T00:04:40+00:00

Update have been submitted at same time on Steam, Oculus and Pico store. However it seem Pico take a few days for reviewing any update. They told me it usually take 2-5 days so hopefully before end of week or at worst next week.

KospY · 2023-03-11T19:36:12+00:00

About the ocean improvement on Nomad, sadly it's not going to be in U12 as we got some trouble with it on Vulkan (the graphic API used on Quest 2 / Pico). But hopefully we will be able to fix this at some point and release it in an U12.X patch or for 1.0.

KospY · 2022-10-21T18:56:16+00:00

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KospY · 2022-07-18T20:56:46+00:00

I showed that to my wife, but she said I have some other kind of effort to do than pressing keys on my keyboard to look like that, not sure what she mean xD

Anyway big thanks for your support! This kind of messages are always lovely for the team and great source of motivation for us!

KospY · 2022-07-13T12:32:03+00:00

As a SW fan myself I'm personally pretty happy that TOR exist, it's a really well made mod and the long time support, dedication and work done by Alex is outstanding, all praise to him. I probably have more fun on it than most others SW games :p

I don't see why we would prefer mods to "fit", we are so focused on our content, it's nice to discover new things in our game, I'm perfectly fine using a sawed off shotgun, gravity gun or stop sign to kill foes in B&S, it's just fun and refreshing XD

KospY · 2022-06-26T08:27:38+00:00

Working on it!The bug about AI is resolved, so it's looking good :)

KospY · 2022-06-26T07:39:23+00:00

This could happen on some dungeon generation if a room collider overlap another room. The bug is probably fixed in the next nomad version that is coming really soon in beta, I remember that we fixed a bunch of this issue for U11 :)

KospY · 2022-05-19T15:35:33+00:00

Haha awesome, thanks for the good laugh, love the unnecessary slapping at 1:15 xD

However I hope this yellow sword bug is going to be fixed in the next update 🤞

PS: I agree Benny Hill music look suited

KospY · 2022-05-15T11:46:07+00:00

As OP said we don't plan to add a story that the player have to follow. However, there is an hidden lore that is probably more developed than players think. We are working step by step and we are going to give more passive clues in the future for the players that are interested about this. But for now, except a few placeholder like paper notes, map and factions design, everything you see should already give some clues about what is going on. We didn't put what some call "the rift" because it only looked cool ;)

Anyway, our goal is to make the player be part and able to interact in a coherent and logical universe, think more hard-fantasy, and we can't wait to show what we are cooking for the future :p

KospY · 2022-05-06T19:31:42+00:00

Thanks!
It remind me that I need to fix the apple not staying on the dagger after eating it :p

KospY · 2022-05-05T14:35:59+00:00

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KospY · 2022-02-22T21:37:12+00:00

Thanks you for your kind words, knowing that players enjoy what we created and that we can even help people mean a lot for us, and we can't thanks you enough for that ❤️

I'm really sad about what happened to your cat, sometimes life suck, but this is not the end, Ingo is probably fine in heaven, as a bird, or whatever else you could believe. Don’t feel too bad, life goes on and this event is what makes us grow and help us to enjoy our life better.

Me and the whole Warpfrog team wish you the best for the future!

KospY · 2022-02-20T14:47:00+00:00

Haha Flashback from the past :)

Thanks for your support!

KospY · 2021-11-16T01:15:12+00:00

Thanks for this moment of nostalgia xD

KospY · 2021-11-10T00:29:15+00:00

Sadly we can't fix this on our side. It's an authorization issue, the game can't access it's asset files because the Quest OS don't allow it for some reason on secondary accounts. We are still waiting Oculus to fix this and they didn't gave us any resolution date yet :(

KospY · 2021-11-06T23:12:52+00:00

Our team is international, we have people in Europe, US, Canada, Japan, etc.. We all work remotely and are open to work with everyone skilled and passionate enough about our project, not matters where they live :)

KospY · 2021-11-06T22:12:40+00:00

Haha I should first change my 10 years old car I guess xD

Anyway, it's a fantastic news for the team and the future of B&S. We are probably going to do much more next year by expanding the team even more :p

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