With games like PixelJunk Monsters under its belt, Q-Games is a developer we’d love to see working in VR. Fortunately the studio is doing just that.
The Japan-based developer will be showcasing its first experimental VR game, Dead Hungry, at the upcoming BitSummit 4th event at the Mikyako Messe hall in Kyoto on July 9th and 10th. You can get an early glimpse of the game beforehand, though, the studio’s Dylan Cuthbert has already been posting footage of it being played online. Among those testing the game out on the HTC Vive is none other than Shuhei Yoshida, President of Worldwide Studios at Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) and a keen supporter of the VR movement.
Shu @yosp making burgers in #deadhungry pic.twitter.com/KbmnNrHMEK
— Dylan (@dylancuthbert) July 8, 2016
Also caught on camera is Hidetaka Suehiro, better known as Deadly Premonition and D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die developer, Swery65.
Hey @Swery65 is making burgers in #deadhungry !!! pic.twitter.com/84SNFwhvBe
— Dylan (@dylancuthbert) July 8, 2016
Based on the footage and the name, you can probably guess what Dead Hungry is about. Players step into a food truck and serve up burgers, fries, pizzas and sodas for hordes of the undead. It sounds like you’ll even have a chance to customize the meals you serve to some degree. No doubt you’ll soon start to feel the heat of the kitchen as you try and keep up with demand from the mindless zombie swarms. The game was born through an internal game jam within Q-Games, but there’s no word on when it will see a wider release and what platforms that will be on.
We have one *really* secret experiment in VR that’s going really well, here is Ryuji playing it for the first time pic.twitter.com/pftLGRfLE9
— Dylan (@dylancuthbert) July 6, 2016
Cuthbert also had another VR game to tease. As seen above, there’s footage of a member of the team playing it on the Oculus Rift with Oculus Touch controllers, but the game is apparently “*really* secret” and an experiment right now. He also noted that the project was merely being prototyped on Oculus hardware at the moment, and it wasn’t decided what headsets it would come to in the long run. Given Q-Games close relationship with PlayStation, producing exclusives like the upcoming The Tomorrow Children, PlayStation VR is a good possibility.
Hopefully we’ll see more from Q-Games’ work in VR in the very near future.
