Airspace Defender, a contemporary blended actuality tackle the Missile Command arcade recreation, is coming to early entry quickly and we’re excited to go hands-on at present with an unique preview construct.
Developed by Not Suspicious, this contemporary twist on the traditional arcade recreation makes use of Quest 3’s shade passthrough and hand monitoring to ship an immersive expertise, and for some avid gamers from the Atari era like myself who performed loads of Missile Command again within the day, a heavy dose of nostalgia.
Testing the Early Entry Construct
We examined the early entry construct forward of its launch and the neon vector graphics look beautiful towards the Quest 3’s shade passthrough, making a tiny holographic battlefield that pops properly. Hand monitoring works exceptionally properly, providing exact and responsive placement of your defensive strikes. Unleashing your arsenal of missiles, bombs and laser blasts with a pinch of your fingers feels intuitive and pure and actually offers the feeling of controlling the ordnance on this tiny holographic illustration of a struggle zone.
Not Suspicious opted for a hands-only method with Airspace Defender within the pre-release construct we tried, controllers didn’t work throughout our testing.
“From inception, we designed it to function an inside benchmark for hand-tracking high quality, akin to how Beat Saber turned the benchmark at Oculus for controller monitoring,” defined developer Rafael Brochado over e-mail. “Our gameplay requires fast hand motions but in addition exact and (typically) refined pinches, so it has been helpful for testing how good the hand monitoring is at present and the place it nonetheless wants to enhance, which in fact, then informs our technique internally at Not Suspicious.”
The coaching ranges ease gamers into the hand-tracking-only technique of management and timing mechanics wanted to cease the oncoming onslaught, whereas the extra intense arcade ranges present a difficult expertise with escalating issue that retains gamers engaged. I performed sufficient to expertise the frustration of loss that motivates you to push tougher to save lots of your metropolis. If you fail, the losses are weighed by spectacular explosions as your cities are obliterated. The visible results on these had me mesmerized greater than as soon as. Successes, in the meantime, are met with the flexibility to improve your arsenal or restore destroyed sections of your metropolis.
Early Entry Availability & Past
Airspace Defender began as a prototype for the April 2024 Meta Hackathon held in New York Metropolis and has grown through the early beta testing section, capturing the eye of avid gamers looking forward to a contemporary tackle traditional arcade-style gameplay in blended actuality house. Not Suspicious has a prime scores record occurring its web site because it grows from its Discord group participant base into Early Entry subsequent week.
You possibly can wishlist Airspace Defender now forward of its launch for Quest 2, Quest 3 and Quest Professional.
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Airspace Defender is a 3D tabletop missile protection recreation in blended actuality. Handle your metropolis’s defenses and thwart enemy assaults with fastidiously timed retaliatory strikes!
You’ll want to be part of Ian Hamilton and Don Hopper as they talk about Airspace Defender’s early entry launch on VR Gamescast:
