{"id":77,"date":"2016-02-06T22:24:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T22:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2016-02-06T22:24:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T22:24:49","slug":"next-up-for-archean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/next-up-for-archean\/","title":{"rendered":"Next up for Archean"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is about my VR worldbuilding project, Archean. \u00a0It\u2019s on my personal blog because I\u2019m not quite ready to make this super-official, as I\u2019m still gathering feedback (let me know what you think!), and looking forward to discussing it with other devs at Vision Summit next week. \u00a0But, a number of friends have reached out (thank you!) asking for my reactions to the Unreal VR editor<\/a> news and what it means for Archean, so I wanted to put something up\u2026 and here we are!<\/span><\/p>\n

On Unreal VR, and Kickstarter<\/b><\/p>\n

In short, while it was great to see it, Unreal\u2019s VR editor wasn\u2019t a surprise: they and Unity have talked openly about native VR editor support for a while. \u00a0Its reveal hasn\u2019t changed where I\u2019m going with the project, and I\u2019ll lay out the next steps for Archean in a bit. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What the Unreal announcement <\/span>has <\/span><\/i>changed is my optimism about doing a Kickstarter right now. \u00a0If you know this project and\/or me, you probably know that I\u2019ve been talking about doing a Kickstarter for ages. \u00a0Long story short, I very much wish I had gotten it wrapped up and out the door late last year, but at this point feel that the timing is wrong, and that Archean in its current form is too much like Unreal and Unity\u2019s VR editors to get potential backers really excited. \u00a0I may yet do a crowdfunding campaign in the future, to build a team and deliver a large-scale, super-polished \u201cArchean v2\u201d, but this isn\u2019t the moment for that. \u00a0So of course I\u2019ve been feeling pretty down, as I\u2019ve put a lot of time and energy into a number of iterations of the Kickstarter, but I\u2019m keeping optimistic, moving forward, and am extremely excited to put all that time and energy into what comes next for Archean!<\/span><\/p>\n

With those out of the way\u2026 my favorite subject: The Future!<\/b><\/p>\n

With the recent work I\u2019ve been doing on the <\/span>logic-building tools<\/span><\/a> (which I was going to put out an update on, the day Unreal showed their editor), I\u2019ve been preparing to launch into a new chapter for the project, which I\u2019m super excited about: actually dogfooding Archean, by building a series of small games on top of and using Archean! <\/span><\/p>\n

For the next couple months, I plan to release a new VR mini-game, built with Archean, each week. \u00a0Each will either feature Archean\u2019s worldbuilding tools as the game\u2019s level editor, or worldbuilding as an actual gameplay mechanic. \u00a0The plan is that each of these games can both stand on their own, and will also improve and refine Archean as a whole. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another aim of these games is further cross-platform support: each game will focus on a different platform. \u00a0One week will be a game designed for Gear VR, the next, a Vive game, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each of these will be released as standalone games (again, each containing the Archean toolset as its level editor, or as part of the gameplay), and Archean itself will also be released as a standalone creation app, for the Vive, Rift, Gear, Cardboard, Tango, and non-VR mobile & PC. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be at the Vision Summit next week, and sticking around LA for the week visiting family, but will hit the ground running on this plan when I return in the middle of February. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As I mentioned at first, this thought process is in-progress, and not yet official. \u00a0Please let me know what you think! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is about my VR worldbuilding project, Archean. \u00a0It\u2019s on my personal blog because I\u2019m not quite ready to make this super-official, as I\u2019m still gathering feedback (let me know what you think!), and looking forward to discussing it with other devs at Vision Summit next week. \u00a0But, a number of friends have reached … Continue reading Next up for Archean<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonoforbes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}