Last month we previewed the upcoming
PS VR Game Releases for the holiday season through early 2020, and today PSVR fans can navigate the high-flying sci-fi fantasy world in the new VR adventure
Stardust Odyssey from
Agharta Studio with a PS VR gameplay video below!
Here are further details from Game Designer
Dorian Collet on creating the PlayStation VR controls of Stardust Odyssey, to quote:
Creating the Controls
As VR players ourselves, we wanted a game that delivered (what we consider) all the essential features of a VR game: accessibility, comfort, ergonomics, simplicity and intuitiveness. We didn’t want to produce “just another brief experience.”
When you wear a VR headset, you cannot look at your hands and the control buttons, because this breaks the immersive experience. That is why we decided to play the game with the PS Move motion controllers and just the T button: you can instantly start playing without having to think about the mapping of the actions. All the actions are based on simply aiming, pressing, holding and releasing the T button.
In Stardust Odyssey, you play with “magical hooks” that you can use to aim at and grab all the interactive elements from a distance: the rudder to steer your Ethercraft, your spells, the cargoes, etc. Since you can play using your two hands, you can plunder cargo while steering at the same time.
Steering Your Ship is a Piece of Cake
When you grab the rudder ball by holding the T button, a blue disc appears in front of you, which you can use to direct your ship. Aiming inside the disc makes the Ethercraft strafe horizontally and vertically. To do this, you can either tilt your wrist or move your whole arm. To move forward, you just have to slightly push the rudder ball forward and to move backward you simply bring the rudder ball closer to your body. Blue marks on the side indicate how fast you are travelling.
You can switch hands on the controls at any time and choose to use your left or right hand according to your preferences. You will quickly learn how to understand the steering HUDs and intuitively feel how the Ethercraft responds to the range of movements of your arm. After...