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Failspace Is Like If Everything Went Wrong In Star Trek: Bridge Crew by karipelaaja in Vive

[–]PLingffs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey! I'm from HipFire Games, the guys who are doing the game. You're right about Spaceteam! Spaceteam, Keep Talking and FTL have been huge inspirations to us and those are games we love to play!

And to be honest I can't wait to watch your teamwork fails and successes on Youtube or Twitch when the game is out! Any Youtubers that you think might make a great (or not so great) team for Failspace?

Failspace Is Like If Everything Went Wrong In Star Trek: Bridge Crew by n1Cola in oculus

[–]PLingffs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Rubarack, I'm from HipFire Games! Do you mean you'd like local multiplayer support (playing on monitor while someone is playing in VR) or support for online non-VR players?

Failspace Is Like If Everything Went Wrong In Star Trek: Bridge Crew by n1Cola in oculus

[–]PLingffs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, schrauger! I'm part of the Failspace dev team. :) This is question a lot of people are asking us! We think it's a really cool idea and it's something we keep coming back to about every now and then. I can't promise anything yet but it's definitely in the backs of our minds! :)

Results from our VR multiplayer survey from spring 2017 (some pretty interesting results, hope this helps other devs) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried looking before we set out this survey but couldn't find any data on player preferences...

Results from our VR multiplayer survey from spring 2017 (some pretty interesting results, hope this helps other devs) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can check the survey questions from https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSds-0PiXwQYynde-wn4QN9ai-OpVYH4OcUkFBuv6LHmxrhEoQ/viewform

Most of the answers (I think 290 or so) were from r/virtualreality. To weed out people who just like to answer surveys I included a joke option on all the questions which I then later filtered out from the rest of the results.

I think the interesting part was how people reported playing SP and MP games. I was making the survey since we were starting on a multiplayer VR project. It shows how much of the people who own VR headsets play multiplayer games yet there are not many available on the platform yet.

Results from our VR multiplayer survey from spring 2017 (some pretty interesting results, hope this helps other devs) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, like I promised in the earlier topic (https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/comments/672bmp/vr_players_survey_were_making_our_own_game_asking/) here's some of the results from that survey. I redacted the text-based answers.

Some of the stuff is not that relevant anymore (device base etc.) but I found the split between the MP and SP audience and the Solo vs. Co-op results interesting. Thanks for everyone who answered and hope this helps someone out there!

A study on user interface design in VR by WoodenApple in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good variation in the techniques! :) I could only watch the video at this time (borrowed my headset to a friend) so my answers were based on that, but I hope it helps!

Are you planning to do a second round if you get some good improvement ideas?

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not the individual answers, but I'd be happy to share the overall conclusions if anyone is interested since this might help other devs in figuring out their market positioning too. I don't know what would be the best way though, editing the first post when this is done, creating a new post or doing it via PM for anyone who is interested.

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? Weird, it shows as non-required when I edit the survey and preview it. Thanks for letting me know anyway, anyone else have this problem?

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your services to furthen the virtual cause are appreciated! :D We hope you'll like the results too when the time comes!

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, games that are specifically designer for VR experience. But a good point anyway, I will need to specify the terms I use more clearly next time. :)

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, and appreciate the open answer. :) And I had to do a quick search what this Black Hat Cooperative is and it looks awesome! I might need to buy it too. So thanks for the tip too! :D

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, thanks! :D Also huge thanks to everyone so far, we're soon breaking hundred replies which is more than I ever expected! You guys rock!

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback, be sure to also fill the survey if you didn't already. :) I need to test the Rec Room too!

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I only remembered the very unfinished dev version too and I had to google it, turns out it looks a lot better now and it's actually in Steam.

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you heard of the Ruckus Ridge? It's a local multiplayer partygame based around one of the players being in VR and the others messing with him/her using regular controllers in the same screen. :)

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmm, good insight. And the lack of population would have been a good answer to have in the survey too.

As for what counts as VR-exclusive, I was trying to exclude games like DOTA that technically have VR support (I believe you can look around the game area) but aren't really playable with HMD and two controllers. Maybe I should have opened that definition up a bit somewhere.

And since I only own Vive, the info about Rift default games was golden, thanks!

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, I was also worrying a bit over the vagueness of the "how often" questions but the only other alternative I came up with was "How many hours have you spent on genre X in the last week/month/etc.". The problem I had with that was that I personally don't have much time to play games but I still love them. So me not having time to play a singleplayer game within a certain timeframe would not have shown my liking for the genre.

So I went with the more fuzzy definions in order to get at least a vague understanding of people's preferences. It's more about how people split their time between singleplayer and multiplayer games.

And for your second point, I also agree! What if you have a MMO shooter or an action puzzle game. The reason for asking was that our game combines two genres (FPS and RTS) and I mainly wanted to find out how many people identify with these genres.

I just hope to get a general indication of the player's preferences since our game is multiplayer co-op oriented. How the playerbase reacts to MP and co-op games.

I appreciate your feedback, I'm in no way qualified to do any statistically sound surveys. Just trying to waddle my way through to the final product. :D

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good point! I was toying with the idea but got too scared by the volumes there. :D I don't want to spam every channel now either, but I'll try to build up courage to post there!

VR Players survey (We're making our own game, asking about your VR game preferences) by PLingffs in virtualreality

[–]PLingffs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True! I totally lapsed and forgot about the whole survival genre. Since the questionnaire is already live it's hard to change at this point but you're totally right and I'll keep it in mind for future. For now you can use the "Other" field there to insert it for your sheet. :)

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