This is Dave here with a much needed update to the Captain Dinosaur blog! So first of all its good to be back writing this after well over a year of forgetting to add stuff (our bad) and to finally shed some light on what we've been up to for the past 18 months! This post and the next couple will be more catch up posts than new shiny announcements but i hope you can enjoy them all the same!
Today's post is all about our Anti Flux VR Uk Games Fund submission from 2016! Uk Games fund is a funding program introduced last year following a large sum of government investment, its goal is to fund small UK based game teams to get there products to a sell-able or demonstrative state in order to grow and ultimately provide jobs and experience to the British economy.
Right, enough about the program, what about the pitch?
Anti Flux VR was to be a fully 3D virtual reality Shoot Em Up, with the player piloting a ship around large Virtual landscape overrun with Viruses. Much like the mobile game the players objective was to destroy as many of these viruses as possible using a variety of weapon and the colour changing mechanic that worked so well in the previous title!
We were aiming to utilize the Occulus Rift touch controller to further enhance the experience and were aiming to showcase the project at the Develop VR showcase, with that being the ultimate goal of the initial funding!
We put together a snazzy little video (view able below!) and had built an alpha prototype for the submission.
Although we ultimately (Spoiler alert i guess?) we were not able to get the investment we needed this time around, we really enjoyed leaving our 2D comfort zone for this project and overall think that the Uk Games Fund is a really great program and we certainly hope to apply for it again whenever we can.
So that's just a quick behind the curtain glimpse at our Anti Flux VR pitch!
Thank you for reading and please check out our Twitter and Facebook pages for updates on whats next for us at Captain Dinosaur Games!
Dave
Lead Programmer
Captain Dinosaur Games
Daves Twitter:@eofgizmo
Capt Dino Twitter: @CaptDinoGames
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