The developer of Gorilla Tag, one in every of VR’s hottest and commercially profitable video games, has revealed the primary clear take a look at its subsequent recreation. Beforehand codenamed ‘Venture AR’, the title has been formally dubbed Orion Drift, and goals to take Gorilla Tag’s social construction to the following stage.
One other Axion is the indie studio behind Gorilla Tag, the viral VR recreation that’s taken on a lifetime of its personal and earned greater than $100 million in income—making it one in every of VR’s most profitable titles.
And whereas most studios could be reluctant to disrupt such an enormous success with their very own new title, that appears like precisely what One other Axiom is as much as with Orion Drift. A newly launched teaser reveals the way it will work.
Orion Drift is constructed atop Gorilla Tag’s signature arm-based locomotion system, however gamers will inhabit robotic our bodies moderately than gorillas. However that straightforward change of avatar is way from the disruptive half. The sport is taking Gorilla Tag’s seamless social foyer navigation and ‘playground’ gameplay and turning it as much as 11.
Orion Drift is promised to characteristic area stations upon which as much as 200 gamers can roam concurrently. The area stations encompass a number of massive enviornment areas the place gamers can play all kinds of various video games, from one thing that appears not removed from ‘Gorilla Tag’ itself to ‘Tackleball’, which appears to be like quite a bit like soccer or Rocket Race, however in fact utilizing your fingers for motion and controlling the ball.
We additionally get a glimpse of one other a part of the station which incorporates one thing that appears like a golf course and pickleball courts. And nonetheless one other space internet hosting an occasion known as ‘Scrap Run’ which appears to be like like an impediment race.
Though this might already be loads of area for actions, the cylindrical area station has no less than seven further large modules which are proven as being ‘underneath building’—the implication is that these will all fill out to help extra distinctive actions and recreation modes.
And it would even be gamers that construct out the remainder of the station. One other Axiom beforehand stated concerning the recreation that “[…] gamers can run their very own servers, management their very own stations, host their very own rule units, reasonable and customise the feel and appear of actions, posters, recreation modes and extra,” and in addition talked about plans for a stage editor which might enable gamers to construct their very own maps and actions.
And if that wasn’t sufficient, on the finish of the trailer the digital camera pulls approach again and divulges not simply the one floating station, however practically 20 floating by way of area collectively.
It’s an formidable idea that’s clearly impressed by the seamless social construction of Gorilla Tag, the place recreation lobbies are ‘locations’ and altering recreation modes is as pure as strolling between rooms.
In Orion Drift, nonetheless, the concept isn’t simply to wander down the corridor into a brand new room, however traverse a complete area station full of individuals—and perhaps even leap from station to station to seek out new recreation modes and folks.
For now One other Axiom is looking this primary look a “improvement snapshot” comprised of “early gameplay footage.” There aren’t but laborious plans for a launch, however the studio is taking sign-ups for a closed early entry interval on its official Discord.
