Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev

#VR #GameDeveloper / Team Lead at Bit Planet Games

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

Super RC, The game we've been making for the last few years.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@dieworkwear Think about how stupid, just straight dumb, the bottom 5% are. Not mids... the <= 75 range. Now brace yorself. That's 1 in 20.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@SandyofCthulhu ADHD has two notable symptoms: inability to focus and hyperfocus. Your weakness can be your strength. 30 years exp.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@martinvars Alternatively, in the Philippines there is no class action lawsuit mechanism, and corporations get away with committing widespread violations of the law because individual cases are not worth pursuing. Damned do, damned don't.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@Osinttechnical The angle: Waiting for it to take off or crash. I guess the post are the tell.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

Best Guess: VR will continue to struggle until hardware improves enough that creating a good-looking game no longer requires expert-level skill. The average indie should be able to drop in assets like the ones from @SyntyStudios and use them unaltered | with ease. We'll contiune to wait until that day. On the plus side, the MR craze may continue to push the necessary tech forward in the meantime.

[Nathie @NathieVR]

You know the VR scene is struggling when more and more VR YouTubers are covering flat games just to stay afloat. Tough times out there.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@bmfshow This is totally a quest fooooor sure. Realtime shadows, reflections, screen space glow. Just look at the store page in headset. Totaly the same image.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@DryerCombo @jmdagdelen Solution: Just 3d print your self one. Its gonna be super easy. And take far fewer than 1000 hours to make the model.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@karpathy @kuroke01 @gallabytes You are where you can snooze politics, right? It may change your experience.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@opusnoximus @Heaney555 2020... it was a different time, when there was a hope.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@MetaQuestVR I have never played a single game standing. Nearly everyone is agnostic. If it's required, its also refunded.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@PeterSweden7 Hey @grok what percentage of x users are below 16?

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@Jonathan_Blow You should 'just' add familiars to the game.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

Meta had a large influence over the market which significantly distorted the types of games and features developers created. It will take a while for those games to be shipped or canceled before a more organic market reemerges. Hopefully it doesn't involve rebuilding from the ground up.

[Ben Lang @benz145]

“VR is dead” is what people say when they’ve mistaken winter for extinction.

It’s rough out there, no doubt. But this isn’t the first VR winter, and it won’t be the last.

Compared to the first wave of VR in the ‘90s, the market today is dramatically more durable.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@McFaul For good reason. I'm pretty sure he'd strangle the MFer with his bare hands if he had the chance.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

Cats has reached a reasonable look with good interactivity. It also takes a lot of know how to get there. My desire is a mobile platform enabling a similar outcome in a large environment by hobbyists. This will be a massive unlock.

[David Heaney @Heaney555]

Those who hate standalone VR frequently describe games like I Am Cat as "mobile trash", and come up with elaborate explanations for how some dynamic unique to the Meta Quest market leads to their success.

And yet, I Am Cat was the #1 downloaded PlayStation VR2 title in May.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

This will play out within the VR space as the manipulation of the market Meta induced shakes out. I'm still optimistic about VR long term though. We'll still need mobile hardware that enables better looking games though.

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

Games take so long to make now, sometimes you can tell the major creative decisions were made 5 years ago.

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

They killed their momentum pushing horizon worlds. It may take a while to build that up again. Good games with decent graphics is needed. I.E. ~more capable standalone hardware. Current hardware is too difficult to reach reasonable graphic Fidelity.

[Ben Lang @benz145]

There was a time when Meta was funding big VR games like Batman Arkham VR and Deadpool VR as 'system sellers'. But Meta has concluded that that polished single-player VR games don't have the pull they once did. So what's the new 'system seller' then that Meta could invest in to draw crowds?

[Kenny Thompson | Ultrawings | Super RC | Game Dev @Gullie667]

@NathieVR For what is the equivalent to a very premium quest 3 pro? 800$? Certainly not more than 1k? How many would you like to sell?