\u201cLong-term, our goal isn\u2019t just to create a game, but we\u2019ve seen the issues of VR platforms that tried to be platforms before they had a meaningful use case. If you\u2019re just trying to be a chat room or platform without any users, that doesn\u2019t work,\u201d CEO Andy Tsen tells TechCrunch.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s first title is called Zenith, and it\u2019s an anime-inspired fantasy title that plays with cyberpunk themes as well. The founders are really aiming to give VR geeks the game that they want, one that taps into the 80s futuristic aesthetic with gameplay that pays tribute to popular sci-fi books, movies and games of the era.<\/p>\n
MMOs are attracting quite a bit of inbound interest in the venture-backed startup world. Part of the reasoning has been because of people seeing the scope a title like Fortnite was able to achieve so quickly after going virall; the other part is the prevalence of developer tools that gaming startups are able to easily plug into their tech stacks. Ramen VR is using Improbable\u2019s SpatialOS to bring persistent online gameplay to its users.<\/p>\n
The company just rolled out a Kickstarter<\/a> to gauge interest for Zenith; they launched a week ago and have raised $132,000 in the crowdfunding campaign thus far. Backers get access to a VR version of the title as well as a desktop PC copy. The startup plans to roll out across VR devices, including PC systems, PlayStation VR and Oculus Quest.<\/p>\n \u201cThe whole point is that it\u2019s not just on one device, it\u2019s a world, it\u2019s literally the Upside Down from Stranger Things layered on top of your entire world. At any point, no matter what screen you\u2019re on, you can access that,\u201d CTO Lauren Frazier tells us.<\/p>\n The startup still has a bit of development ahead of them, but the current plan is to launch an Alpha in six months, a beta in nine months and to go live broadly a year from now.<\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are niche startups and then there are VR companies going after fans of the \u201ccyberpunk fantasy anime aesthetic.\u201d Ramen VR is one of only a few virtual reality startups that Y Combinator has bet on in the past few years and is only one of two in the company\u2019s most recent batch of bets…. Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/p>\n