Vertigo Games on remaking The 7th Guest for the VR audience

Vertigo Video games this week launched one in all 2023’s most uncommon remakes: A VR-based remake of 90s-era journey sport The seventh Visitor. Initially introduced on the Meta Showcase event in June, the sport brings a brand new model of the puzzle journey to PlayStation VR2, Meta Quest and Steam VR headsets. GamesBeat acquired an opportunity to talk with Paul van der Meer, the sport’s director, about bringing the traditional to VR.

Van der Meer spoke about how influential the unique CD-based title was with its full-motion video and soundtrack. “You noticed the true actors and listen to them — it was their actual voices, not beeps and boops. It was leaps past what different video games may do as a result of everybody was nonetheless caught with floppy disks. As quickly as everybody noticed what the CD-ROM may do for gaming, everybody needed to be on it. It was the brand new customary. It was a really efficient showcase for all of the razzle and dazzle that was instantly potential.”

Based on van der Meer, the remake has been a VR title since he first pitched it, saying, “A secluded, remoted mansion could be good for a VR title.” The brand new title rebuilds all the puzzles, as not one of the authentic property perform in a 3D surroundings. The remake will not be an ideal adaptation, however moderately adapts “recognizable aesthetic components paying homage to the unique,” in accordance with Vertigo Video games.

seventh Visitor makes use of volumetric seize, courtesy of 4Dviews, to seize its actors. Not like movement seize, it doesn’t require actors to put on particular fits. As an alternative, they’re performing out the ghostly celebration that the participant character witnesses as ghostly flashbacks. Based on van der Meer, this helped maintain the spirit of the unique sport’s full-motion video whereas working in an up to date VR surroundings.

“The expertise has been round, however there hasn’t been a showcase to immediately inform folks how a lot impression it may have,” mentioned van der Meer. “What the unique sport was to the CD-ROM — ‘Wow, you are able to do these issues with it!’ — that’s what we wish to do with this sport.”