One Room With Ladders in VR

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.48
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.38
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.63
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.38
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.39
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.33
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★69%
Made for Ludem Dare 37 with the theme of "One Room." So I made a big dark room and put a bunch of ladders in it so you can hop and climb around.

If you can make it out the top with a torch in hand, you are a champion, great moves, proud of you!

Made for Vive and Rift.

Trigger = grab
Menu Button = spawn torches if you want

Install instructions:

1. Download and unzip.

2. Make sure SteamVR is running and open the .exe file.

3. Climb ladders in VR.
Genres: platformer

Comments22

Nexus64
Nexus6413 Dec 2016, 18:16
Sorry, but I can't play this game.
Once the game start, it gets stuck in a white room.
The problems is probably that I don't have any VR controller.
Ygogo13 Dec 2016, 20:38
Same here stuck problem(
kmausserauthor15 Dec 2016, 07:19
This is a roomscale game. You can't climb without vive or rift controllers. There's no way to make it work without them.
neon15 Dec 2016, 18:16
​Didn't get past two ladders. But it was very fun throwing myself in the air frantically trying to grab something ?​ The grip buttons would've been a tad more intuitive for grabbing, at least as an secondary option. Still, a good game.
Geti
Geti16 Dec 2016, 03:28
(Can't play without VR)
kmausserauthor16 Dec 2016, 05:07
@neon
THANKS FOR PLAYING!

The first jump to the left or right is one of the hardest to teach you how to fling yourself and catch the ladder. There's at least 1 path that is possible that I know of.

The reasoning behind using the triggers instead of grip was that the triggers are generally easier to press and when you're flinging your arms around quickly it's less likely to slip out of your hand when you let go. If I were to polish this I would add the option to use grips and also different ways of movement, and make more than 1 type of thing to climb.
BulletsArePeopleToo
BulletsArePeopleToo16 Dec 2016, 20:37
Cool entry. I really wanted to beat it, but it was too hard for me to do so. I got about halfway up I think.

The reflections all around you were cool, and I liked how they helped you see how far you've progressed.
bowlercaptain17 Dec 2016, 23:56
Oh man! I freaking loved this! Flinging yourself from ladder to ladder makes you feel like a crazy acrobat - and missing the grab and falling to your doom reminds you why acrobats are so thoroughly trained. I didn't really understand what I was looking at or why I was getting stopped at strange invisible walls until I realized - I was looking in a mirror! I felt like an ostrich not recognizing itself the first time. I will admit, grabbing the rungs out of the air was prohibitively difficult for me; I was only able to make it to the second ladder a few times and never caught myself on the third. Maybe if the sides were grabbable as well? Anyway. Cool thing! Thanks for making it!
oyoh20 Dec 2016, 23:32
Sorry, no vr =/
Ednei
Ednei21 Dec 2016, 17:42
no VR, sorry
hlavik21122 Dec 2016, 14:04
It looks like good game but I dont have vr.
ACCBDD22 Dec 2016, 21:57
more vr games!
emmelineprufrock
emmelineprufrock23 Dec 2016, 06:07
Not rating because I don't have the controllers -- it would be really interesting to see if you could make a video of what it is like playing the game? That way people without VR could rate the jam game.
Kevin_B26 Dec 2016, 11:20
I can't open the game
aaaleee
aaaleee27 Dec 2016, 10:01
Watched the video as I have no VR unfortunately.
hitchh1k3r
hitchh1k3r1 Jan 2017, 21:00
Flinging yourself around took more coordination then I have. I liked the head mounted spotlight. I noticed the torch's flare did some stranger billboarding. Rather than being projected towards each eye, it was projected to some point maybe relative to my head... I didn't look at the desktop, maybe it was projected to a 3rd person camera.

Good job on this, and thanks for making it.
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