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An Asymmetrically Collaborative VR Adventure Game
ABOUT SÖMMAD
Sömmad gets you on an adventure in a self-overlapping VR maze to find a diamond with help of your friends outside VR. In this local multiplayer, walk freely in a large VR maze, make decisions with friends, and challenge your guiding skills using a mazy map!
TRAILER
FUTURE OF SÖMMAD
We are proud of the walking mechanic Sömmad introduces to VR. It is a passionate project of ours that we would love to continue working on. The future plans involve exploring the mechanic further, building more social gameplay, and optimizing the VR application. We want to have Sömmad installed in public spaces as a way of engaging the visitors. In order to achieve this, we ask for your engagement through feedback on your experience and spreading the word so that several people get to experience this.
ABOUT SÖMMAD
Sömmad gets you on an adventure in a self-overlapping VR maze to find a diamond with help of your friends outside VR. In this local multiplayer, walk freely in a large VR maze, make decisions with friends, and challenge your guiding skills using a mazy map!
The maze and map in the game are built with a core mechanic of “self-overlapping architectures”, which allows users to freely walk and explore the large VR maze without any teleportation required! This freedom to walk makes it easy to forget that the play area is bound to only a small 2.5m x 2.5m space. For an even greater, engaging experience, the game asymmetrically includes all friends outside VR and challenges them to direct the person in VR using a map of the maze.
The game was designed and created as an experiment of VR self-overlapping architectures and local low-budget social VR. It has been played by visitors at Aalborg’s main library that greatly enjoyed it, and therefore we wanted to share this experience with the rest of the world on Steam.
TRAILER
FUTURE OF SÖMMAD
We are proud of the walking mechanic Sömmad introduces to VR. It is a passionate project of ours that we would love to continue working on. The future plans involve exploring the mechanic further, building more social gameplay, and optimizing the VR application. We want to have Sömmad installed in public spaces as a way of engaging the visitors. In order to achieve this, we ask for your engagement through feedback on your experience and spreading the word so that several people get to experience this.
THINGS TO KNOW
- Sömmad requires a 2.5m x 2.5m meter play area for the VR maze.
- It is played with two roles - an explorer and one or more navigators.
- As a navigator outside VR, you are challenged with the map of the VR maze on a side screen to guide the explorer with a VR headset.
- As an explorer, you walk around searching for a diamond with help from navigators.
Get Sömmad free on Steam!
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LOGOS: Rovango Studio and Sömmad
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