ARK Park – Page 4 – Augmented & Virtual Reality Confabulation

September 25, 2017February 8, 2018

‘ARK Park’ to Launch March 22nd on PSVR, Vive & Rift

ARK Park, the VR multiplayer adventure game based on the world of ARK:Survival Evolved (2017), was originally slated for a December release on PlayStation VR, but then production studio Snail Games delayed the game as it was “still in development.” Now, the studio says ARK PARK is officially slated to arrive on PSVR, Rift and Vive on March 22nd.

Update (02/08/18): Snail Games tweeted recently that ‘ARK PARK’ is slated to launch on March 22nd simultaneously on PSVR, Rift and Vive.

Original Article (09/25/17): ARK Park bills itself as an experience promising to be a veritable Jurassic Park (1993), filled with all makes and model of dinosaurs from the ARK universe. We got a hands-on at this year’s GDC earlier this year with the demo built for HTC Vive, and while you can’t really call it educational—there are a number of fictional creatures mashed in alongside your bog standard Brontosaurus and Triceratops—it certainly delivers what you could call ‘sheer wow factor’ with its well-rendered dinos and interesting scenery.

ARK Park focuses on exploration-based ‘Excursions’ through a number of biomes where you collect fragments of dino-DNA. These fragments can be used to unlock new crafting blueprints and new maps. Production studio Snail Games says collecting them all “will require a combination of puzzle-solving logic, quick reflexes, a trained eye, and careful resource management to bag the genes from the rarest and most prized creatures.” You can also collect and incubate eggs to raise your own virtual dinosaur pets that you can ride once they reach adulthood.

ARK PARK Screenshots and Trailer Released

The virtual reality (VR) spin off for popular survival crafting title ARK: Survival Evolved titled ARK PARK has just seen a new trailer and screenshots revealed during the ChinaJoy event, one of Asia’s biggest videogaming events.

ARK: Survival Evolved was released into Early Access on 2^nd June, 2015, with an expected release date for the final version of 8^th August, 2017. The title puts the player in the role of a human stranded on an alien world populated by dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. The player must learn how to gather materials, craft weapons and hunt down the creatures in order to stay alive.

Snails Games, the developer of ARK PARK, sent its vice president, Tianqi Wu to take the stage at ChinaJoy alongside art director Guohan Tang to discuss the creative development of the VR title. The new trailer offers a look at some of the core gameplay, which involves a tower defence-style of combat. Players are able to customise their avatar, then enter the world to take on giant dinosaurs, gather materials and craft bigger and better weaponry.

Ark Park Screen 8

The developers describe ARK PARK as an ‘extension’ of ARK: Survival Evolved. Players will be able to interact with over 100 unique creatures patterned after animals from Earth’s pre-history. There is a multiplayer mode planned, so players can work together to take down might beasts.

ARK PARK is due for release on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR some time in Q4 of 2017. A price has yet to be confirmed. The trailer for the upcoming title is available to view below.

VRFocus will continue to bring you news on ARK PARK and other upcoming VR titles.

July 28, 2017

Neuer Ark Park Trailer für PC und PCVR verspricht knallharte Dino-Action

Der VR-Ableger des beliebten Spiels Ark Survival Evolved schien im ersten Hands-on eher ein touristisches, informatives und geruhsameres Dinosaurier-Vergnügen zu werden. In Ark Park für Oculus Rift, HTC Vive und PlayStation VR darf man Dinosaurier beobachten, fangen und zähmen. Ein neuer Trailer für die VR-Erfahrung rückt hingegen bleihaltige, adrenalinfördernde Action in den Mittelpunkt, Anleihen aus dem Spielberg-Klassiker Jurassic Park sind unübersehbar.

Ark Park: Dino-Action im Mittelpunkt

Reichhaltige Waffenauswahl im Ark Park

Der liebevoll aufgemacht Titel Ark Park versetzt den Spieler mitten in eine Art Jurassic Park – man darf die Umgebung zu Fuß oder per Buggy erkunden und Dinosaurier beobachten. Über 100 Arten soll das Spiel bereithalten, dazu gibt es eine umfangreiche Datenbank mit Informationen, die man in Hologramm-Form aufrufen kann. Aktiv werden darf man auch: Dinosaurier lassen sich mit der richtigen Ausrüstung fangen und zähmen, anschließend darf man gar per prähistorischem Reptil durch die Gegend galoppieren.

So weit, so bekannt. Ein neuer Trailer des Entwicklers Peacock verschiebt nun den Fokus vom Bildungs- in den Actionbereich und macht damit Adrenalin-Junkies den Mund wässrig. Alles fängt aber erstmal ganz friedlich an, ganz in Jurassic-Park-Manier: Der Park öffnet seine Tore, Kinder spielen mit Dinosauriern, andere Reptilien verspeisen mampfend Blätter oder gleiten durch die Luft. Aber dann erscheinen aus dem Himmel unheimliche blaue Lichtsäulen und das Unheil nimmt seinen Lauf. Aus dem Vergnügungspark wird ein Schlachtfeld, mit Pistolen, Bögen und schweren Wummen zieht man gegen außer Rand und Band geratene fleischfressende Saurier in den Kampf.

Der Trailer weist darauf hin: Multiplayer für den Ark Park

Der Trailer verrät aber noch mehr. Offensichtlich muss man sich nicht alleine der Gefahr stellen, sondern kann sich im kooperativen Multiplayer-Modus mit weiteren Überlebenswilligen sich gegen die Saurier wehren. Neben anderen Fragen wie nach der Spielzeit von Ark Park bleiben derzeit aber noch zwei weitere offen: Das Erscheinungsdatum geben die Entwickler grob mit diesem Jahr an, ein Preis ist ebenfalls noch nicht bekannt.

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July 27, 2017

New ‘Ark Park’ Trailer Reveals a Lot Less “Education” and a Lot More Dino Destruction

When Ark Park was first revealed back in 2016, we were told it would be an educational experience allowing players “the opportunity to truly appreciate and understand dinosaurs in their natural habitat.” That seemed odd at the time, given that the title is a spinoff of Ark: Survival Evolved, a game that’s very much about survival and killing. A new trailer for Ark Park shows that the game will be something much different than initially expected.

It’s unclear if the scope of the game has simply changed since we last played it earlier this year, or if this was a cunning plan all along. Whatever the case, it seems Ark Park’s curriculum will feature a healthy dose of killing ferocious fire-breathing dinosaurs and giant scorpions with high tech weaponry. That’s a slight shift from what was originally pitched as a place to learn about the majesty of dinosaurs.

When we first played the game, there wasn’t a gun in sight. The game focused heavily on showcasing detailed dinosaur models. Road to VR’s Scott Hayden succinctly compared to to “Jurassic Park before things went wrong.”

But the game’s latest trailer reveals that in good old Jurassic Park fashion, things will go wrong, in all the right ways. You’ll find yourself dispatching vicious prehistoric beasts like an action hero, and it appears to game will include multiplayer so that you’ll be able to enjoy the combat with friends.

The turn is probably for the better, as it’s much more sensibly aligned with the Ark brand, and now things make a little more sense as to why the game’s ‘educational’ value seemed so dubious.

Ark Park is due out this year, though a specific release date hasn’t been announced.

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March 2, 2017

Hands-on: ‘ARK Park’ is Like Jurassic Park Before Things Went Wrong

ARK Park is a VR spin-off of ARK: Survival Evolved (2017) from Suzhou, China-based Snail Games. Letting you explore the habitats of the world’s wild mix of fictional and non-fictional pre-historic creatures, ARK Park is betting big on the pure wow-factor of coming face to face with dinos in what promises to be an experience brimming with possibilities for exploration.

Like a veritable pre-disaster Jurassic Park (1993), ARK Park lets you go out on what the game calls ‘Excursions’ into a number of habitats. The control scheme is primarily based on teleportation, but the game promises to serve up some scenes with rideable dinosaurs as well as vehicles. According to Snail Games, ARK Park isn’t going just be a walk (or ride) in the park though, as you’re tasked with collecting the disparate dino-genes scattered throughout the game’s various biomes. Snail says the world is populated with more than 100 unique species.

Stepping into the experience at the Valve booth at GDC 2017, I was first shown the world’s hub, a sort of museum where you can read about the dinosaurs, see holograms of them up close and learn about what they eat–knowledge that you’ll have to take with you on your way through the different areas. This is the first place where you confront the truly massive creatures of the world, with one side of the museum lobby showcasing a holographic Tyrannosaurus Rex and on the other a truly massive Brontosaurus reaching to the museum’s high ceiling.

ark park museum — holographic Brontosaurus eat holographic food from your hand

Teleporting over to a holographic map in the center of the giant domed museum, I pull up a menu selection of several orbs, physical object that you can pick up and enter which act similarly to how you change locations in Valve’s The Lab (2016). Putting the a ‘pre-hstoric swamp’ orb up to my face takes me to the biome.

The swamp is filled with chittering life. Moving closer to an old wooden signpost holding a map of the area, my obligatory robot companion points out a giant spider blocking my way. While not historically accurate, it’s daunting just the same.

ark park robot — your buzzing robot buddy

Heading the opposite direction I encounter a giant snake that I’m forced to fed in order to keep from attacking, and my new snake buddy doesn’t eat fruit, rather a helpless frog that saunters my way with nary a care in the world. I didn’t want the chubby little swamp frog to die, but this is the world of ARK Park, a relentless snake-eat-frog reality.

Next was a pair of giant beavers, which were about the height of a dining room table and the length of motorcycle. The two were busily chomping on fish they had caught from a nearby body of water. Walking into the water nearby, I grab a fish barehanded and toss it to one of the beavers to eat. I have become death, destroyer of pre-historic worlds.

ark park spider — fictional knee-high spiders

Like the much beloved Pokémon Snap (1999), ARK Park lets you snap pictures of the creatures, which might appeal more to people who’d prefer not to manhandle and chuck little frogs and fish to their demise.

My next adventure was much more dinosaur-heavy, as this time I was transported to a lush Urwald filled with ferns, buzzing insects the size of your palm and a range of terrible lizards (and reptiles) from Velociraptor to Tyrannosaurus Rex. While elements are scripted, the dinosaurs follow you with their gaze, making it feel less like a scripted vignette and more like a real world encounter.

I’m wary of the educational value of the game, as it liberally mixes fact with fiction, and although some parts seem right (what do I know), there’s no guarantee that the actually historically correct creatures are indeed historical contemporaries and not just a mix match of a bunch of dinosaurs from different eras. Taking that aspect of the “museum” with a grain of salt, the game was a fun dive into the surreal and ultimately tickled my dormant childhood curiosity with the long-dead beasts.

ARK Park is slated to arrive sometime this year on HTC Vive. In the meantime you can follow the game on Steam for updates and announcements from the developers.

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February 24, 2017

ARK Park: Erste Spieleindrücke des Dinosaurier-Parks

Der Titel ARK Surival Evolved erfreut sich schon länger großer Beliebtheit. Studio Wildcard bringt das Dinosaurier-Spiel nun noch in diesem Jahr für Virtual Reality heraus.Der Titel des Ablegers: ARK Park. Entwickelt wird das Spiel mit Hilfe der Unreal Engine 4. So soll man mit der HTC Vive, Oculus Rift und PlayStation VR in die wilde Welt der ausgestorbenen Echsen eintauchen können. Dass ein Kampf gegen einen T-Rex in VR zweifellos Angst einflößend ist, hat Studio Wildcard berücksichtigt und liefert mit ARK Park ein touristisches Jurassic Park Erlebnis, natürlich ist hier alles unter Kontrolle. Jetzt wurde mit Entwickler Snail Games ein erster Einblick in das Gameplay geliefert:

Willkommen im ARK Park

Gezeigt wird uns das Bestauen und Füttern der Dinosaurier im ARK Park mit der HTC Vive in Mixed Reality. So muss man sich nicht in alter ARK-Manier um sein Überleben, Kleidung, Waffen und einen Unterschlupf sorgen, sondern kann voller Neugier, die verschiedenen Dino-Arten beobachten. Man kann die großen Fleischfresser wie auch kleine Dinosaurier und Dodos entweder zu Fuß oder von einem Buggy aus beobachten. Eine Datenbank teilt einem zu jedem Exemplar in Hologramm-Form Informationen mit, man lernt so also einiges über die Echsen. Grafisch sieht ARK Park sehr gut aus, sowohl die Umgebung als auch die Dinosaurier. Beeindruckend und ein wenig furchterregend wirkt vor allem der große T-Rex.

Aber mit ruhiger Beobachtung ist es nicht getan, für die Forschung müssen natürlich ein paar der über 100 Dinosaurier Arten auch gefangen werden. Dazu braucht ihr Waffen und Items und auch Puzzle-Abschnitte soll es in ARK Park geben. Auf den Dinosauriern reiten könnt ihr natürlich auch, wenn ihr sie gezähmt habt.Eine klare Story-Line wird es nicht geben. Wenn in euch eine Dinosaurier-Ranger Seele steckt, wird ARK Park also genau euer Ding! Einen umfangreicheren Einblick könnt ihr auf der offiziellen Seite von ARK Park gewinnen.

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February 23, 2017

Check Out The First Footage Of Ark Park In Mixed Reality

Studio Wildcard’s ARK Survival Evolved might not be the best fit for VR. That’s probably why Ark Park exists.

This spin-off of the popular survival game is on the way to the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PlayStation VR (PSVR) later this year. This week, Wildcard and Ark Park developer Snail Games posted the first look at gameplay for the title, played on the Vive, shot in mixed reality (though released a little too soon to take advantage of Google’s new face-rendering software) and complete with comments from the developer.

As the name suggests, Ark Park is a mix of the original game, in which players would build bases and tame dinosaurs, and Jurassic Park, resulting in an experience that removes the survival action and lets you get up close and personal with the long lost beasts. At one point in the trailer we even see a player riding in a buggy to approach some creatures. It’s safe to say the game wears its inspirations on its sleeves, then.

Based on the footage, the game looks impressive from a visual perspective, perhaps even more so than the original game it’s based off of. It promises a mix of the scary and sensational; at one point we see a massive t-rex lumber past one of the developers, before the trailer cuts to another player feeding dodos. The game will let you lean about each of these creatures at a central hub where you can also view holograms of them.

It’s not just an educational experience, though. You’ll have to capture some dinosaurs using items and weapons, and there will be puzzles to solve too. Exactly how much content is on offer remains to be seen, but we’re hoping for a meaty experience out of this one.

A full release date for Ark Park hasn’t been set yet but we’ll let you know as soon as we have one.

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February 22, 2017

Snail Games Release Reaction Video for ARK Park

Today Snail Games has unveiled the first footage of players trying out its unreleased virtual reality (VR) title ARK Park. Licensed from Studio Wildcard’s IP ARK: Survival Evolved, ARK Park takes an educational look at dinosaurs, with the players experimenting with some of the interactive features.

The video features the co-founders of Studio Wildcard, Jesse Rapczak and Jeremy Stieglitz, getting a first look at the new VR experience. They test some of the exhibits, such as a panel providing info on Tyrannosaurus Rex, with height, weight and length displayed, alongside a small model that can be picked up an inspected.

ARK Park

The experience then takes them outside into more natural surroundings, watching dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes wander around, eating and interacting with one another.

ARK Park will be available in 2017 across all three major VR platforms: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR. VRFocus will continue its coverage of ARK Park, reporting back with any further updates.