VR Kayaking Game (Demo)
A downloadable game for Windows
Welcome to a virtual kayaking experience!
Originally showcased at the 2021 Auckland Indie Games Showcase (and slightly reworked since then), this is a seated Virtual Reality sandbox experience where you can travel in your kayak by paddling around!
In this demo, you'll find one of two tasks:
- Help a big ducky to find all its lost babies scattered across the map
- Collect trash that's floating around in a big cave and put them in the recycling bin
or you can ignore them entirely, relax on the water and play some tunes from your smartphone's music app.
This game can be played using any SteamVR compatible headset.
This is a hobby project of mine, so maybe this will be the start to a fully released game, or maybe not, who knows.
Have fun and good kayaking! :D
Controls:
Trigger/Grip buttons: Grab objects
Left Menu Button (Vive Wands)/ Left A button (Knuckles)/X Button (Oculus Touch): Recenter Play area
Extra credits:
Logo made by Nathan O'Neill
All music belongs to their respective rights holders and are not mine
Download
Install instructions
Download the file above, unzip and launch .exe
It should work with any VR headset that can run SteamVR.
"VR Kayaking Game" is a seated experience, so find a chair (preferably one that can swivel with no arm rests) before playing.
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Great work. Quite relaxing and a nice change from shooting games. The songs also added to a chill out feel.
I did find that the oar misbehaved a bit. Mainly when next to land. It did cause me to drop it at one point and it floated away! Do the bottle of water and apple feature in any puzzle or are they just decoration that kayakers take with them?
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the kind words! The oar and the experience as a whole still have room for improvement for sure, even though they've come a long way since I've first worked on the project.
The apple and water bottle aren't part of any of the 2 main objective on the map; you can do whatever you want with them (and I'm sure you'd need a snack and drink while rl kayaking too ;D )
Game look fun will try in tomorrw
Looks cool