{"id":17650,"date":"2015-09-21T12:51:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-studio-behind-monument-valley-is-set-to-launch-its-first-vr-game"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:37:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:37:47","slug":"the-studio-behind-monument-valley-is-set-to-launch-its-first-vr-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-studio-behind-monument-valley-is-set-to-launch-its-first-vr-game","title":{"rendered":"The studio behind Monument Valley is set to launch its first VR game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XwJ9fiH2Ksw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the most remarkable things about <em>Monument Valley<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/4\/3\/5573812\/monument-valley-mc-escher-ipad-game\">the mobile puzzler from Ustwo<\/a>, was how it managed to lure in people who don\u2019t play games. Its intuitive controls and beautiful, MC Escher-inspired worlds made it the rare blockbuster that almost anyone could play. And now the studio is looking to do the same thing in virtual reality. On October 30th, Ustwo will release <em>Land\u2019s End<\/em> on Samsung\u2019s Gear VR, an exploration game that maintains many of the same principles of <em>Monument Valley<\/em> \u2014 stunning art, accessible controls \u2014 and transports them to a 3D space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing we wanted to do, is to bring our way of thinking to VR,\u201d explains Peter Pashley, technical director at Ustwo Games. \u201cWe find that a lot of people who are making VR experiences are kind of making quite traditional games. I wanted to make sure that our branding was represented in the early days of VR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-studio-behind-monument-valley-is-set-to-launch-its-first-vr-game.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/9\/21\/9353235\/lands-end-vr-game-monument-valley\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most remarkable things about Monument Valley, the mobile puzzler from Ustwo, was how it managed to lure in people who don\u2019t play games. Its intuitive controls and beautiful, MC Escher-inspired worlds made it the rare blockbuster that almost anyone could play. And now the studio is looking to do the same thing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64120,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions\/64120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}