We're very excited to be featured in "The ultimate exploration and celebration of horror in video games."
I will be talking about the inception of VR horror, the creation of A Chair in a Room, what I had to consider when Writing The Exorcist: Legion VR and working with highly esteemed (and Oscar winning) licenced IP.
It's shaping up to be "Five 60-minute episodes plus 15+ hours of online events, including Q&As with the biggest names in horror gaming."
It's genuinely an exciting project to be involved with and we're really looking forward to being able to watch it - except cringing at the bits that I open my mouth!
Take it easy, Ryan
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Studios partner up with ‘The Sinister Set: VR Horror Collection’
Six VR game developers have joined forces to launch what could very well be the biggest collection of VR horror games on Steam. Named The Sinister Set: VR Horror Collection, the bundle is now available on Steam and includes the following spooky experiences:
Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife, from Fast Travel Games Cosmodread, from White Door Games AFFECTED: The Manor, from Fallen Planet Studios The Exorcist: Legion VR Deluxe Edition from Fun Train + Wolf & Wood Hinge VR, from Arcadia VR A Chair in a Room: Greenwater, from Wolf & Wood
About the games included in The Sinister Set: VR Horror Collection
WRAITH: THE OBLIVION - AFTERLIFE You died in a mysterious seance and have become a Wraith, one of the restless undead. In this VR horror game, use your supernatural abilities to solve the mystery behind your death. But beware of the sinister Spectres lurking in the shadows…
COSMODREAD A VR survival horror roguelike about escaping a dying spaceship filled with nightmares. Stranded in a hostile universe, you must explore, survive, and find your way back to the safety of Earth.
AFFECTED: The Manor - Complete Edition Only the brave may enter! Experience horror unlike anything you’ve known before as you try to escape The Manor. Terror lurks around every corner as you venture deeper into the abandoned house and find that the only thing keeping you alive is your sanity. Or lack thereof...
THE EXORCIST: LEGION VR DELUXE EDITION A complete collection of all FIVE chapters of the acclaimed VR experience based on The Exorcist franchise. Investigate and exorcise sinister demonic entities as you make your way to a final confrontation with your darkest, most hidden fears.
HINGE VR A psychological horror VR adventure. You suddenly find yourself in an abandoned skyscraper, deprived of all your senses and memories. The laws of physics are broken and time has collapsed. The only way to get out is to step into the frightening unknown, putting all the pieces together.
A CHAIR IN A ROOM: GREENWATER Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the insidious Greenwater...
Additional support and an additional fixes.
It's been a long time coming so thank you for your patience, we managed to get hold of an Index and have added support for this along with a number of other updates.
Added support for Windows Mixed Reality.
Added support for Index.
Added in SteamVR Controller mapping for Oculus, Vive wands, Index Controllers and WMR.
Added in new UI for player controls.
Fixes for save system issue.
Fixes for black screen at start.
RiftS up and running.
Fix for unlocking the padlock and mobile phone when using the right hand on Oculus Touch.
Lots of fixes and general updates to make the early game a bit smoother.
Many thanks,
Wolf & Wood.
60% off for the summer sale!
"One of Vive’s scariest games to date in A Chair in a Room: Greenwater. I spent about 3 hours tip-toeing my way through the story and still get goosebumps when I think about the things I saw on my adventure. " - UploadVR
"...this is a genuinely horrifying but encapsulating game. I’ve never wanted to push through a game that I simultaneously wanted to wimp out of at the same time, but that’s what is so brilliant about A Chair in a Room: Greenwater." - Game Pitt
"I don't normally write reviews, but this game deserves a huge thumbs up. Wow. Just wow." - winglessraven
Greenwater Remastered is LIVE
We've remastered the whole game in time for some Halloween fear and it is available as now as a free update!
"It's time to take your medication."
Here's what to expect:
Added free move to the locomotion options along with crouch and free rotation to accompany teleport and the original ‘flexible room scale’ locomotion option
Flexible room scale is now available on Oculus so if you have 3 cameras and 2.5m x 2.5m area you can play the whole game at 1:1 scale without additional locomotion required
Completely reworked physics and interactions
Improved artwork, updated textures and added post processing
Remastered soundtrack
Improved SFX and a new audio engine
Additional cues and clues to help with guide through the puzzles and story
Huge optimisations for smoother gameplay and faster loading
Added achievements
Cloud saves
Bug fixes and planned post launch support
Remaster coming for Halloween
We’ve been busy on The Exorcist: Legion VR but we have been listening and we thought it was about time to give “Chair” a real update. Here’s a run down of what is to come:
Completely reworked physics and interactions
Added free move to the locomotion options along with crouch and free rotation to accompany teleport and the original ‘flexible room scale’ locomotion option
Flexible room scale is now available on Oculus so if you have 3 cameras and 2.5m x 2.5m area you can play the whole game at 1:1 scale without additional locomotion required
Improved artwork, updated textures and added post processing
Remastered soundtrack
Improved SFX and a new audio engine
Additional cues and clues to help with guide through the puzzles and story
Huge optimisations for smoother gameplay and faster loading
Added achievements
Cloud saves
Bug fixes and planned post launch support
The biggest update is that we have implemented our ‘Burrito’ interaction system which we built just before starting The Exorcist: Legion VR and implemented into the same game. This means that we now have excellent physics handling and objects interact with each other in a more natural way. It is something that people commented on at the time of creating A Chair in a Room but W&W was just me at that point, the headset was still a prototype and things like VRTK just didn’t exist so I had to workout how I thought vr interactions would work, so it feels good to revisit with the benefit of hindsight and make it much better.
We’ve made a huge amount of optimisations which have allowed us to add in new post effects and some higher poly art where we thought it would benefit the scene, for example we completely rebuilt the lodge in chapter 2 to make it just that bit creepier.
The music and audio was a passion project for us, adding live instruments into the mix has brought out a visceral edge to some of the pieces, making the whole scene feel a little more on edge.
We’ve made numerous subtle changes but that’s what Chair is all about, it is the overall feeling that we’ve tried to enhance and I think that’s why we’ve worked on so many aspects of the game, VR immerses all of your senses so we’ve put extra work into how it looks, feels and sounds to make a better experience.
The remastered version will be out very soon and will be given as a free update to people who already it on Steam.
Thanks for the support and patience, Ryan
More horror! The Exorcist: Legion VR
We've been quiet since adding Oculus Touch support earlier this year, mainly because we've been busy making a new game/experience The Exorcist: Legion VR.
- Episodic release, 1+2 launched today, with 3, 4 and 5 due very soon
- Story driven, based around the work of William Peter Blatty
- Explore to progress, any puzzles are optional
Hope you enjoy,
Ryan
Oculus Touch and summer sale 'madness' at Greenwater
30% off
All new patients save 30% on a treatment at the infamous Greenwater Institute, our spiritual counselling and medical care is second to none.
Oculus Touch is now supported!
You can use your locomotion pointer (grip) to highlight objects that may have fallen from your reach. Trigger will allow you to pick them up.
Other minor maintenance has been carried out on the facility.
Secret keys:
N = Next scene B = Previous scene V = Reset scene
Big thanks to the people who voted for us!
We just picked up the Community Choice Award in the Viveport Developer Awards.
Up against some of the biggest names in VR, you voted us into the no.1 spot, great stuff!
Many thanks,
Ryan
UploadVR - Best Horror Game
A slightly delayed* reaction to the news but great stuff all the same. It was really an honour to be shortlisted but to win was another thing completely! Big thanks to the people who have supported this small passion project, hopefully this is the beginning of something much bigger.
