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Yore VR Launches in Steam Early Access
October 24, in the year of our Lord 2016 -
Yore VR officially launches today in Steam Early Access at
12:00pm PST. The launch caps 6 months of development from a
small team of developers known as TectonicVR. TectonicVR
partnered with Ironbelly Studios, an indie game service provider
based in Montreal, QC, to streamline the development process,
which will continue throughout Early Access.
Within the game, there are three options for movement to enhance
travel around the open world as players work to unlock weapons
and resources needed for Blacksmithing and crafting.
Key Features Include:
• Open World Design - A welcoming world, just under 1km x 1km,
filled with beautiful trees chirping birds, beautiful deer, a
river, lake and waterfalls awaits the player with a settlement
situation in the center.
• Blacksmithing - Semi-Realistic blacksmithing sim, with ingots
to forge, heat up and hammer away. For launch, swords will be
the only item that can be crafted however the type of sword that
is made will be based on a player’s blacksmithing skill. This is
calculated based on the quality of the ingot produced at the
smelter as well as the accuracy of hammer strikes, the average
temperature of each strike over the course of the blacksmithing
process and perhaps the velocity of the strikes themselves.
• Practice Forge - There will be 44 different components,
blades, hilts, crossguards and pommels with thousands of
possible crafting combinations. Components will be organized
into 4-5 tiers from poor to epic, with poor being a run of the
mill blade and components and epic being, well bloody epic.
• Player progression and town building - Weapons and buildings
can be unlocked by gathering resources and gold in whatever
order the player decides. Once unlocked, buildings (such as the
pub) can be upgraded over time, adding new features and
benefits.
Yore VR is being developed in a partnership formed with
TectonicVR and Ironbelly Studios. Ironbelly Studios Inc. is a
creative and technical service partner that has worked with over
300 independent studios since their founding in 2009. TectonicVR
is a small studio established in 2016, with Yore VR being their
first title.
No word on a physical copy of this game at this time. Families
are required to pay for Internet usage fees to download this
game. For more information click
here.