Navigate a lethal temple and gather hidden treasures utilizing your personal two toes.
Have you ever ever dreamt of entering into the boots of a fearless explorer and embarking on a harmful journey via a deadly jungle temple? What about battling historic creatures and fixing riddles utilizing an Indiana Jones-style whip? How about the entire above?
Nicely, right this moment’s your fortunate day. Obtainable now on Meta Quest headsets, Eye of the Temple is a location-based VR sport that duties you with navigating a labyrinth of lethal traps and primitive puzzles whereas accumulating priceless rubies floating all through the air and hiding inside delicate jars.
Probably the most fascinating a part of the sport, nevertheless, is the locomotion system. As a substitute of utilizing a joystick or teleportation, you bodily transfer all through your real-world setting utilizing your personal two toes. The sport makes use of intelligent stage design to continuously reposition you in the actual world via transferring blocks and rolling logs.
That stated, the sport requires a good quantity of open area with the intention to play; 6.5 toes by 6.5 toes to be precise, however I’d suggest giving your self a bit extra room simply to be secure. There are even unlockable speedrunning challenges the place you possibly can navigate the temple at excessive speeds.
“Everybody compares the sport to the Indiana Jones films. That inspiration truly happened in a curious means,” stated developer Rune Skovbo Johansen throughout an interview with Meta. “Within the first six months of growth, not a lot had been established past the truth that you have been exploring some type of temple and had a picket torch in a single hand.”
“The opposite controller wasn’t even used for something. However as numerous pals have been attempting out the sport, a persistent chorus I stored listening to was that enjoying it felt like being Indiana Jones. After listening to this sufficient instances, I assumed, ‘That’s not a nasty expertise to evoke—why not lean into it additional?’ With out infringing on copyright or IP, after all.”
“So I got down to implement a bodily simulated whip, since aside from the thematic boon, it additionally appeared like a cool and distinctive mechanic. It took an infinite quantity of additional time to get the whip to work optimally as a result of I needed to implement custom-made physics for it, which was removed from trivial. However the consequence has positively been value it.”
Eye of the Temple is obtainable now on Quest 2 and Quest Professional headsets for $19.99. The sport was developed by Rune Skovbo Johansen and printed by Salmi Video games. For extra info go to eyeofthetemple.com.
Function Picture Credit score: Rune Skovbo Johansen, Salmi Video games
