1.1 hours played
Written 1 year and 10 months ago
Pictionary/sculpting game using VR + phone app.
The painter in VR can draw on a canvas with 3 colors, draw in the air with a bunch of colors, or place geometric shapes in the air to visualize a word. Other players use a phone app to see the drawing, guess the word and trigger hazards.
I’m reluctantly giving the game a not recommended rating. I like the idea of the game, and I am impressed by the technical feat of getting this all to work with an app, but some things makes it too difficult for players new to VR to be the painter. I am not sure I can get my family to try the game again because of this.
Feedback:
* In a reasonably sized play space, the canvas, paint buckets and 3d objects should all be within the play space so locomotion wouldn't be needed. Consider adapting the creative space to the play space or make the creative space smaller so most setups don't need to use locomotion.
* Switch smooth locomotion to teleport locomotion, because smooth locomotion is disorienting for players new to VR and can make them nauseous.
* Add a setting to disable locomotion to prevent players from moving the world around if the creative space is fully within the play space.
* Make the game clear the pictures between rounds.
* Make it clearer how to manually clear the pictures. It should be obvious how to do this without playing the tutorial.
* Some players were confused about the controls for placing 3D objects vs drawing in the air. Maybe controls can be tweaked to be more intuitive. I admit that I hadn't played the game in advance so I couldn't coach them well. (Valve index)
Painting on the canvas was difficult and only had 3 colors so I guess the canvas is mainly a gimmick and the main way to convey a word is by using 3D objects and drawing in the air. This was not clear to us from the start and caused some frustration.
Players can enter custom words at the beginning of a round which is great, but I’m a bit confused about how this works. The same player who entered the custom word can also guess the word. I was also hoping to be able to play the game in a different language but the custom words were mixed with words from the game.