RAGE ROOM
ROLE
Sole Developer
DESCRIPTION
Rage Room is a VR experience that takes real world rage rooms and brings them into virtual reality. With the goal of being able to release pent up frustrations and stress from the comfort of your own home, Rage Room is able to provide that.
YEAR
2023
GENRE
Stress Relief Experience
Destruction
PLATFORM
QUEST
DESIGN
Rage rooms in real life give people an opportunity that they regularly wouldn't be able to do in their typical daily lives without repercussions, destroy things. The purpose of this is that it's an effective way to get out any pent up frustrations that one might accumulate through the stress of their regular lives. Some of the challenges and advantages of transferring that experience into virtual reality will be discussed here.
The biggest problem with converting to virtual reality is the raw feedback that smashing or hitting something gives. Haptic feedbacks in a controller can only do so much and a lot of the satisfaction comes from doing it with your own bare hands. We can subsidize this by doing the best we can to properly immerse the player in the experience. If they believe that they are there, their brain will do most of the work for the actual physical feedback. This can be done through making sure things look how they should in the real world. Making sure hands line up correctly when holding a tool/weapon, objects crash and break in realistic ways following the laws of physics that we understand. We can take some creative liberties, but keeping the player immersed is the #1 goal.
The advantage that we have in virtual reality is that in theory, our imagination is the limit. You aren't held back by being unable to source an ancient battle axe or unable to make a profit from letting people destroy things on the moon. The freedom players will have by being able to choose what they want to destroy, with whichever weapon they choose, wherever in the universe they want, is the true strength of the medium.
In it's current state, the game has a very solid framework built around it. Given that these projects were made in only a couple months while also balancing other classes, not much time was able to be allocated. If I were to continue on this project, expanding would be my goal. Adding a larger variety of weapons, as well as creating a ton of different environments for the player to choose from would be top priority. Adding a large selection of music varying from multiple genres is also something very important to me. Music can vastly effect our mood and playing a game like this with the correct music in the background is a near essential thing that must be included.
