Virtual reality is a virtual world that differs from the surrounding reality, creating the illusion of presence and causing great emotions, and also affects the user’s main senses and subconscious. Today, quests, presentations and games in virtual reality are the most popular in the entertainment, business and gaming fields. Any virtual reality project requires special equipment – VR glasses. Depending on their model, development will be built and the size of the audience of the product will be determined.
A distinctive feature of games in virtual reality is the full immersion of the user in the virtual world, in which it is possible to interact with the environment using joysticks in the hands, and the movements of the legs in the real world are transferred to the game world, which will create real player activity and completely immerse yourself in the gameplay thanks to realistic graphics. All this is possible thanks to Unity, a game engine that combines tools and software for creating virtual reality, as well as a VR mode for previewing the game being developed. Developing VR games on Unity will allow you to complete any task, from a primitive game with cubes to a large-scale game with modern graphics.
Virtual reality games are first-person games where the player decides where to look and move. Therefore, it is necessary to create various sound effects and graphic prompts that should fit into the virtual environment surrounding the player and not interfere with the view. All 3D objects of the foreground should be as detailed as possible and should not be low-poly, so that the player has a sense of the reality of what is happening. Far-field 3D objects can have a lower level of detail, which helps optimize performance so that there are no lags or lags in the game. VR games must have a minimum value of 90 FPS. With a lower FPS value, the user may lose the feeling of being in a virtual environment and leave the game. VR games immerse the user in a story that looks like a believable life-size image, while the player will experience all the emotions as if it were happening to him in reality.
Stages of VR game development:
- generating a new idea that will be interesting to the target audience;
- preparation of the game script;
- preparation of detailed technical specifications;
- thinking through the gameplay;
- interface drawing;
- modeling virtual 3D space;
- creation and animation of internal 3D objects;
- writing the program code of the game and the server part;
- testing and debugging the game;
- release and publication of the game on marketplaces;
- technical support, adding a new scenario and functionality.
The “AEstAR” studio is developing virtual reality games in various genres that will be adapted to the necessary VR glasses and have an interesting storyline, unique characters, high-quality graphics and elaborate design. The price and time of creating a VR game are interconnected and depend on the complexity of the project, which is affected by: the set of functionality, the level of detail, the degree of user interaction, the presence of sound effects, the use of databases, the complexity of the plot, the duration and other features of the game. Our company offers a full cycle of VR game development that will bring any ideas to life, as well as help create innovative gaming solutions that will appeal to users from all over the world.