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26 Rob Plays Announced
Adelaide, Australia - August 28, in the year of our
Lord 2018 - Are you the fastest ice cream scooper in
the land? A whiz with paper airplanes? Get ready to put your
money where your mouth is because Australian game studio Novus
Res has announced that their new VR party game, 26 Rob Plays,
will be available for digital download for PC via the Oculus
store on September 6, 2018. The pass-and-play style VR game
challenges you to compete against your friends in a series of
frantic mini-games, including painting abstract masterpieces,
scooping ice cream, shooting aliens, and more.
"From the outset we wanted to make VR a social experience" said
Luke Wilson, lead developer on 26 Rob Plays. "We wanted to bring
people together using the newest technology to share their love
of gaming and play, the way people do with board games and card
games." With 26 Rob Plays, the developer hopes to do away with
some of the antisocial stigmas video games have long fought
against.
26 Rob Plays features 26 mini games in which players are
challenged to complete a series of short VR tasks. The games are
designed to maximize the capabilities of VR
interactivity-players can go from chopping wood to dodging
cannonballs to making burgers. The game supports up to eight
players, each taking turns to compete for the best score on each
level, and watching can be just as fun as playing. "The other
players get to sit and watch as other players jump around in VR,
waving their arms and legs all over the place," said Wilson.
"It's hilarious."
The Novus Res team enjoyed a successful visit to the US earlier
this year, during which they publicly demonstrated the game for
the first time. "We spent two weeks at South By South West
(SXSW) in Austin and Games Developer Conference (GDC) in San
Francisco, showing people the game and getting feedback," said
Wilson. "We were blown away by the overwhelmingly positive
response and even had people bringing their friends back the
next day to show them."
No word on a physical copy version of this game on this system at this time.
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