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Nest Guard VR by Louspirit

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made by Louspirit for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

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Nest guard is a PCVR Game, you need a desktop headset to play

Run the NestGuard.exe in administrator

Sinopsys

You cannot imagine what a mother dino is ready to do in order to protect her offspring. Protect your nest from the predators until your eggs have hatched.

The predator will take a egg from your nest and flee to eat it elsewhere. Hit a dinosaur with your claws to kill it.

Controls

  • Left analog to move around
  • Right analog to snap turn
  • Grip to grip objets (no use for now)
  • Trigger to click on menu button pointed with laser
  • Menu button or left hand second face button for menu

Team

  • @Louspirit : developer & texturing
  • @Popo3744 : designer
  • @Clemzd : music maker

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Notes

  • It was our first game in VR and we were shorter in team members. We learn a lot but we could not implement all the features we wanted in time.
  • We used VR Expansion plugin to get some basic features
  • We made dino character, hands & egg, the rest was from Unreal marketplace
  • Tested with Rift S, should be compatible Vive, Index, Windows MR and SteamVR
Youtube https://mineogames.itch.io/nestguard
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/nest-guard-vr

Ratings

Overall 1611th 3.325⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 2031th 2.9⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 326th 3.786⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1517th 3.524⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 898th 3.35⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1206th 2.853⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1393th 3.3⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

PicusBGames
23. Apr 2020 · 14:40 UTC
Hi there NestGuard team! I'm not able to test this, but as it shows first on my Smart list I really wanted to pop in and say props for doing a VR game! We need more good VR content out there :) I can already tell this sticks to the theme well, and will be fairly innovative, hopefully you get enough people with the required hardware rating it!
fatPenguin
23. Apr 2020 · 14:52 UTC
I think its really cool that you created a VR game! I played it with an OG Vive and it worked quite well.
For the controls my Vive Controllers were not that great but as it was enough to just stand over the nest to defend the eggs, I didn't have to move much :)
dm2684
23. Apr 2020 · 17:45 UTC
Pretty cool dinos! :)
png
23. Apr 2020 · 18:33 UTC
Great to see a VR game here. I played with quest+link. restart game caused an error for me.

i love the environment and the dino character! the sound of the attackers is a bit subtle. I ended up sitting on top of the eggs hitting in all directions to beat the game. seemed to be the obvious solution and worked well.^^ is it possible to hatch the eggs or do something else?
🎤 Louspirit
24. Apr 2020 · 15:18 UTC
Thank you everybody for testing our game or your interest :) Yeah first game (of many) that we've developed in VR. It was longer that we thought to get one up and running.

@fatpenguin what controls weren't ok ?

@png You are right, it is not challenging enough, originally we wanted to implement a fire next to the nest that you need to supply in wood constantly or the egg would freeze. That would force you to go grab some logs further. Hopefully we will implement this in a post-jam version!
EternalXP
24. Apr 2020 · 15:33 UTC
I played this without a vr-headset and was unfortunately able to experience the full game, but the sounds music and graphics are cool and fit together nicely. The gameplay is very simple but good
BarravelBZH
24. Apr 2020 · 16:51 UTC
Good job for VR. Nice game.
Popo3744
24. Apr 2020 · 21:06 UTC
Thanks @barravelbzh :)
Ommadawn
25. Apr 2020 · 15:28 UTC
Played with Quest + Link. Nice implementation :smile: The idea is nice but the game lacks a bit of features ! Nice graphics & audio ! :egg:
Team-on
25. Apr 2020 · 22:41 UTC
Sorry, haven't vr to test your game, but it's amazing that you manage to do vr game in 3 days!
SlimBun
26. Apr 2020 · 09:47 UTC
Very cool game, Very impressive. Unfortunately my PC sucks and I was lagging very hard.
Doot
26. Apr 2020 · 13:14 UTC
Great job, this is very impressive for a game made in a jam. The audio and visuals are nice and the rules and controls are very simple.

However, not only you need a VR headset to play it, but you also need a Nasa super computer I guess! My GTX1070 ran at 100% to give me around 20 FPS. So I guess to get those stable 120 FPS you would need something at least 6 times more powerful than a 1070?

Thank you for the game!
CPTN-B
26. Apr 2020 · 18:10 UTC
This deserves so much more ratings!
🎤 Louspirit
29. Apr 2020 · 08:18 UTC
Thank you for playing and letting us now that! We will check if we can improve perfs.
Twiking video settings would be first thing as it is on ultra by default :smirk: !
Skosnowich
29. Apr 2020 · 20:42 UTC
Well done for your first VR game. Sadly, I also found it pretty easy. I just stood on the eggs and did a shamanic dance and all the predators just ran into my claws. I really liked the music, felt prehistoric.

With more content this would be a very nice game. I'd love to play a dinosaur in a more fleshed out VR game.