Hi there! I’m Josef, one in all the creators of Beat the Beats VR, popping out February 27 on PlayStation VR2. It’s a rhythm VR sport you play along with your fists and all about studying precise boxing strikes like jab, dodge, and uppercut.
On this article I might like to share with you how the pure feeling boxing strikes in our sport got here to fruition.
At Parallel Circles, we’re big rhythm sport followers. And VR? We like it. It immerses you like nothing else. I’ve all the time been captivated by the agility, coordination, and precision of boxers. So, mixing these passions felt like a no-brainer. Thus, Beat the Beats VR was born.
Boxing greenhorn to boxing champion
Pulling off energetic boxing strikes in actual life takes years of coaching. However in Beat the Beats VR, we needed gamers to really feel like professionals from the get-go. Jabs, hooks, uppercuts — they need to all circulate naturally.
After a lot of experimentation, we realized the conventional rhythm sport method didn’t fairly match boxing’s fluidity. So we switched it up. As an alternative of the “notes” (we name them beats) coming straight at you, they arrive from completely different instructions in arcs difficult you to maneuver precisely in the identical means you would in a boxing struggle.
You possibly can’t assist however make excellent jabs for beats from the entrance, hooks from the facet, and uppercuts for ones coming from above.
Punching by means of the entire sport
As quickly as we nailed the boxing punches we introduced different features of the sport into the sport. You may as well evade (referred to as a “roll”) and block beats.
You may as well unlock new ranges/albums by punching them.
Combine all of the boxing motion with some exhilarating music and you have a rhythm sport that’s the better of each worlds: a enjoyable expertise for informal gamers and a full-throttle exercise for the ones that need to go the additional mile.
We hope you have as a lot enjoyable with our sport as we had creating it. Perhaps you’ll sweat as a lot as we did, too. Beat the Beats involves PS VR2 on February 27!