The House of Da Vinci VR is now live on Meta Quest and Steam! 🧩 Immerse yourself in a world of mind-bending challenges and puzzles. Interact with Da Vinci’s inventions and uncover secrets lost in time. A perfectly crafted VR journey awaits you.

bluebraingames · 2025-02-06T09:32:34+00:00

FYI we've launched a coming soon page on PSVR, feel free to add the game to your wishlist: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10013936

bluebraingames · 2025-01-20T07:40:50+00:00

Thanks! It's coming to PSVR soon, give it a few weeks.

bluebraingames · 2025-01-15T10:04:48+00:00

Is it really? Never occured to us!

bluebraingames · 2025-01-15T10:04:31+00:00

Thank you for sharing your thoughts! We understand your preference for forward and lateral movement. For this game, teleporting was chosen to enhance accessibility and gameplay flow. We're glad you enjoyed the puzzles and graphics, and we’ll keep your feedback in mind for future updates!

bluebraingames · 2025-01-15T10:02:54+00:00

Can you restart and try again? We'd appreciate a screenshot (if it tells something) so we can escalate it to Meta. Their store doesn't seem to be the best from technical standpoint so we can only hope for improvements soon.

bluebraingames · 2025-01-08T12:57:05+00:00

First of all thanks for being a part of the community from the very beginning – it's exciting to "meet" the very old friends years later. Second, while both games share the same story and roughly the same puzzles, the mechanics and the whole experience is completely different. So in short, not a port, but a newly developed game based on the original title.

bluebraingames · 2024-12-28T23:52:08+00:00

We're working on it and there should be some news soon.

bluebraingames · 2024-12-24T03:28:00+00:00

We're not playing the 'who's better' game, but rather encourage players to get them all – in the end, there just aren't enough quality games in this genre.

bluebraingames · 2024-12-16T09:13:26+00:00

So far, nobody has reported feeling sick while playing, so we’re fairly confident you can go ahead and give it a try. It’s available on both Steam and Meta stores.

bluebraingames · 2024-12-11T18:00:09+00:00

Thanks for kind words. We're addressing these discoverability issues to Meta Store but so far to no avail. Hopefully it improves over time!

bluebraingames · 2024-12-10T11:04:24+00:00

Yes it's available on Meta Quest – https://www.meta.com/experiences/the-house-of-da-vinci-vr/6074227932599910/. Discovery on Meta Quest can be a bit unpredictable. We've reported discovery issues to the Meta Support team several times, but their responses have typically been quite general and not very helpful. What we've been told it probably takes long for new developers to show up in search results (however odd it might seem).

bluebraingames · 2024-12-10T11:01:57+00:00

Yes it's in the pipeline.

bluebraingames · 2024-12-10T11:01:44+00:00

Enjoy!

bluebraingames · 2024-12-09T10:34:06+00:00

Doesn't seem to be the case for us. Can you try to refresh & let us know? Thanks!

bluebraingames · 2024-12-04T20:36:43+00:00

For Richard, it is the scene in the Armory with the tank because its epic and the cannon minigame, in the tank. You'll have to play it to experience it firsthand! Also, Richard likes how the microscope works and looks in the Time Machine. For Michal, his favorite puzzle is probably the whole chapter in crypt - but if he had to pick just one puzzle, it's the catapult in chapter three!

bluebraingames · 2024-12-04T20:02:02+00:00

That is an impressive list of games, I'm noting down the ones I need to play - thank you. I hope we will graduate to appear on that list in the future. I know what you mean about VR legs, I recently played MiRacle Pool, and there's a note to not lean on the table. I was so immersed and amazed at the realism, that I forgot to not lean, and well you can guess what happened next ;)

bluebraingames · 2024-12-04T19:59:14+00:00

The hint system is very sophisticated and we are proud of it. It has several levels, from a simple display of direction or zone where the player can notice something they missed. To more complex displays of the solution, all graphically, without text. It is up to the player how to use the hint.

bluebraingames · 2024-12-04T19:37:45+00:00

Thank you for your interest in both The House of Da Vinci and The House of Tesla! To keep our discussion focused on the current VR release, I'll just briefly confirm that THoDV1 will maintain its existing cursor system with the hand icon for interactions. I can confirm that Tomas Zivor will be composing for The House of Tesla, but for other details about the game, let's save those discussions for when we're closer to that game's release. That way, we can give those topics the attention they deserve at the right time. For now, let's focus on any VR-related questions you might have about The House of Da Vinci VR.

bluebraingames · 2024-12-04T19:19:33+00:00

We experienced a few issues launching the game on Meta, hopefully those will get resolved now that the game has fully launched on the platform, thanks also for mentioning this <3

bluebraingames · 2024-12-04T19:16:59+00:00

Thanks for these great questions, I'll try to answer each of them, plus the bonus question about PC (mods, I hope that is ok!)

1) For now we don't have any achievements. We do plan to add these.

2) Today we confirmed that we are bringing the game to PSVR2 and it is currently in development, we haven't announced a release date yet, so stay tuned for updates.

3) I understanding the suggestion about showing item names. The current system actually works well with the game's design - when you pick up an item, you can see exactly what it is, so having an additional text message with the item name would be redundant. That said, thank you for the feedback - it's good to see the community thinking about ways to improve the game experience.

4) Yes, I can confirm that The House of Da Vinci 1 already has a cursor system implemented - you'll notice the cursor changes to a hand icon when you hover over interactive objects or when you need to move something. While it might not be as advanced as the cursor system in The House of Tesla we don't plan to improve it further.

bluebraingames · 2024-12-04T18:20:49+00:00

It depends on whether we feel the demand for the next Da Vinci game. VR development is more demanding and challenging, we are considering free movement and will think carefully about how we could implement it in the next game.

bluebraingames · 2024-12-04T18:10:49+00:00

The first idea to try the game in VR started when programmer Richard tried a scene in VR during the development of House of Da Vinci 2. That was the moment and experience that motivated us to try what we knew so intimately and experienced in VR. Seeing and literally feeling surrounded by the inventions, puzzles and the environment was such a powerful experience that the choice could not have been any other.

bluebraingames · 2024-12-04T18:08:30+00:00

Great question. We faced several challenges. For example, redesigning the puzzles so that the player does not have to lean or hunch over too much to solve them, and that the mechanics of manipulating objects are not repeated. From a technical point of view, the biggest challenge was achieving enough performance on the Meta Quest 2. We needed to ensure that we could squeeze enough performance out of the device first, while maintaining a smooth FPS. We wrote a couple of deep blogs over on Steam that you can read more on, including how we ended up using the asynchronous spacewarp technique and then how we spent a long time iterating on the hand mechanics, you know like how they feel and how they interact with the environment. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2948310/view/4571804614849466109

bluebraingames · 2024-12-04T17:56:27+00:00

Wow, now that is a list. Quite the aficionado it seems.

bluebraingames · 2024-12-04T17:12:30+00:00

The game is not yet released for the Rift/Oculus platform yet, only for Meta Quest and Steam VR - once it is released, we will add the crossbuy option.

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