Fantastic Contraption (2016 video game)
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| Developer(s) | Northway Games |
| Publisher(s) | Radial Games |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Fantastic Contraption is a 2016 virtual reality video game for the HTC Vive in which players construct machines from building materials to meet challenges. It was released at the HTC Vive's launch on April 5, 2016.
Gameplay
Players use the HTC Vive's motion controls to construct machines from building materials in order to meet challenges.[1]
Development
The game was developed by Northway Games. The developers spent extra time reimagining how in-game controls, such as a volume slider, should work in virtual reality, and concluded to show a physical speaker with a volume knob as an interaction that players could readily intuit. Northway used a virtual helmet to represent a "third reality" in which the player could share creations and adjust in-game settings.[1] Northway released Fantastic Contraption at the HTC Vive's launch on April 5, 2016.[2]
Fantastic Contraption was originally released in 2008 as a 2D, free-to-play Flash game before it was rebuilt for virtual reality.[3][4][5]
Reception
The Gizmodo Australia reviewer wrote that Fantastic Contraption was easily his favorite launch title, as he found none of the other titles interesting.[6] Polygon wrote that the development team's "mixed reality" video stream (which shows the player within the virtual reality environment) made the medium "social".[7]
References
- 1 2 "This Is How Vive Beats the Rift: Games and Packed-in Motion Controls". Polygon. Archived from the original on April 11, 2016. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
- ↑ "The HTC Vive Review". Polygon. Archived from the original on April 10, 2016. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- ↑ Bryant Francis. "Gamasutra - Bringing a 2D puzzler to VR in Fantastic Contraption for Vive".
- ↑ "Immerse yourself in Vive's VR with two mixed-reality videos". Engadget. AOL.
- ↑ "Fantastic Contraption Coming To The Vive VR Headset". Rock Paper Shotgun.
- ↑ Michael Nunez. "HTC Vive Review: A Beautiful Machine Waiting For Games".
- ↑ Ben Kuchera. "How Fantastic Contraption has made virtual reality social". Polygon.
External links
Media related to Fantastic Contraption at Wikimedia Commons