GBF Live! on the Oculus Quest : Where did it start, where are we now, and where are we going ?
It’s been an exciting week for the Galactic Bar Fight team, the early vertical slice of our game is available to play now on the Oculus Quest and We’ve had feedback both public and private rolling in which we are utilizing to inform further changes. We’d like anyone whose tried our experience and whether you loved, hated, or felt meh about it we appreciate you taking your time to play it and we appreciate you voicing your concerns and the things you enjoy about the game so far! Please don’t stop telling us how to create better games !
Where Did GBF Start ?
Galactic Bar Fight started as an innocent experiment our studio founder Jonathan Jennings was interested in simply asking Could he make a VR experience of Decent Quality by himself? The core Idea had multiple implementations including the idea of a blaxploitation film theme and even taking form as a game centered around an exterminator terminating some gross pests in VR ! What started as an innocent question and a small project he tinkered with after work and on weekends became a passion project and around the time we had some stiff challenges with implementing AI that was slowing the project down the Oculus Launchpad program arrived and offered an opportunity for marginalized creators from a multitude of diverse backgrounds the opportunity to develop and pitch a prototype to the Oculus team themselves. Over the next 6 months work was done on two VR projects and for Galactic Bar Fight specifically the tutorial room , additional sound effects, more visual cues, narration, star ratings, and a multitude of bug fixes took place. We’re now in the consideration phase for the Oculus Launchpad Grant among many other talented creators and anxiously awaiting the results of the selection committee’s decisions. What started as bedroom tinkering and experimenting has grown to be so much more!
Where are we going?
Galactic Bar Fight is STILL an early release, we envision many more weapons, worlds ( and bars), characters, unlockables, methods of progression, AI allies, and ore to inhabit the final experience. We’re hard at work trying to build out the best experience we can with the latest technology , design considerations, and also pulling from some of our favorite classic games including Doom, Ratchet and Clank, Smash TV, and more. Galactic Bar Fight and our VR bar hopping in space is a journey that’s just begun and we look forward to taking you on a trip with us ! Please keep an eye on this website and we’ll do our best to keep you up to date with what we’re creating in our lab ! Thank you for sharing your time with us !
