{"id":182142,"date":"2025-06-13T21:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182142\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T21:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T21:54:12","slug":"flat2vr-goes-behind-the-scenes-on-roboquest-vr-its-next-big-vr-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/182142\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat2VR Goes Behind the Scenes on ‘Roboquest VR’, Its Next Big VR Port"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beloved roguelite shooter Roboquest (2023)\u00a0isn\u2019t a VR game, but it will be soon thanks to VR porting team Flat2VR Studios. In a VR Developer Direct interview, Flat2VR talks about just what\u2019s behind the studio\u2019s next big port.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoboquest started as a passion on the flatscreen game, because I love the game so much,\u201d says Flat2VR COO Eric Masher. \u201cI love playing it. We saw the dynamic movement, double jump\u2014there\u2019s rail grinding in it\u2014every time I was in there, I was just like, \u2018Man, this would make the perfect virtual reality game. Why isn\u2019t this in VR?\u2018\u201d<\/p>\n

Masher details how he flew to Sweden to \u201ccold call\u201d the game\u2019s publisher, Starbreeze Entertainment, to ask whether an official VR port would be possible, which turned out to be a surprisingly quick green light.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are really VR-ifiying\u00a0every single mechanic that we can think of,\u201d says Flat2VR CEO Jasmine Uniza, who reveals the game\u2019s massive assortment of guns have been physically modeled for manually reloading\u2014no small feat.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy Flat2VR Studios, RyseUp Studios<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you even understand how much work it is to just do one weapon.\u00a0To figure out how to make one weapon\u00a0feel good in VR and make it the VR version of it? But in a game like Roboquest, it\u2019s so fast-paced, that all of a sudden doing this process of reloading really breaks the game balance. We had to do that for not one, not two, not ten, but something like 80 weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Masher talks about how the studio moved the game\u2019s UI to the user\u2019s wrist, putting ammo counters on guns, and making the game\u2019s minimap not so oppressively \u2018in your face\u2019 was a big concern. Those immersive touches are what \u201cmakes the difference between a port, and a conversion,\u201d Masher says.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy Flat2VR Studios, RyseUp Studios<\/p>\n

Flat2VR\u2019s says it\u2019s currently working to bring its slate of projects to \u201cas many VR platforms as possible, which includes\u00a0Surviving Mars Pioneer, Out of Sight VR, Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, Postal 2 VR,\u00a0and Flatout VR.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the studio says it still has more to announce, although we should expect them at next VR Games Showcase<\/a>, which is slated to take place in August 2025.<\/p>\n

In the meantime,\u00a0Roboquest VR\u00a0is slated to arrive on all major VR headsets in\u00a0Fall 2025, which you can wishlist over on the Horizon Store<\/a> for Quest 2 and above, Steam<\/a> for PC VR headsets, and the PlayStation Store<\/a> for PSVR 2.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beloved roguelite shooter Roboquest (2023)\u00a0isn\u2019t a VR game, but it will be soon thanks to VR porting team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-182142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114678285561347643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}