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Carve Snowboarding Drops Onto Oculus Quest Tomorrow
A month ago Chuhai Labs revealed an exciting project coming to Oculus Quest, Carve Snowboarding. Coming from the mind behind 1080° Snowboarding for N64, Giles Goddard, there isn’t very long to wait to see the videogame in action as it arrives tomorrow.
Carve Snowboarding looks set to offer some intense snow shredding action as players take to the slopes, filled with huge jumps, grind rails, multiple paths and a lot of dangerous-looking rocks to avoid. Not much has been revealed about the gameplay besides that first trailer in April so it’ll be interesting to see how Chuhai Labs handles both steering a snowboard as well-performing tricks.
Expectations are high considering Goddard’s previous projects, plus he recently conducted a Reddit AMA in which he remarked: “I’ve been an avid snowboarder for many years yeah and all my kids are too. I’ve always wanted to make a VR snowboarding game and the Quest is the first piece of hardware that lets you do that properly due to it being truly wireless.”
The gameplay will be split between two modes by the looks of it, a Time Attack mode which is all about speed and getting down the mountain as fast as possible. The other is a Freestyle Mode which is all about scoring those big points, pulling off major tricks using anything and everything on the courses.
The courses will also feature glowing collactables to pick on route. These seem to range from new tape tracks to add to your boom box and of course new boards. In true snowboarding fashion these will probably feature various stats depending on what type of rider you are and whether you need a board for tricks or speed.
Carve Snowboarding hits Oculus Quest on 27th May, retailing for $19.99 USD. VRFocus will continue its coverage of the snowboarding title, reporting back with further updates.
A Winter Downhill Wonderland Awaits in Carve Snowboarding
If you’re of a certain age, remember 90’s gaming and owned an N64 then you may recall 1080° Snowboarding, one of the platform’s best sporting titles and seen as a benchmark for future games of that ilk. Well, one of its creators, Giles Goddard has teamed up with Chuhai Labs to create a spiritual successor in virtual reality (VR), Carve Snowboarding.
Announced during the Oculus Gaming Showcase today, Carve Snowboarding is set to offer all the thrills and highspeed excitement of this extreme sport, hurtling down mountains, performing giant leaps, grinding rails and pulling tricks to win big. Details so far come from the first announcement trailer, highlighting some of the courses, gameplay, and a few additional extras.
Carve Snowboarding will have a nice wooden hut as your base of operations by the looks of things, with an old-school boombox allowing you to swap tapes out so you can listen to tunes on the slopes. A selection of snowboards are on the wall so you’ll be able to mix and match between those, although it’s unclear if the variances are purely cosmetic. On the far wall looking like a big screen TV is the list of the main options, selecting the courses and gameplay modes such as Time Attack. You’ll also have a per pooch to keep you company.
The big question regarding a videogame like Carve Snowboarding is how well the studio manages to translate actual snowboarding into VR whilst ensuring a comfortable experience. Probably the best example so far is Early Access PC VR title Terje Haakonsen’s Powder VR which offers both arcade and simulation styles. At this early stage, Carve Snowboarding seems to be a more arcade-style experience.
At the moment there are no other details for Carve Snowboarding, such as when it might be arriving and whether it’ll be a PC VR or native Oculus Quest title.
The Oculus Gaming Showcase has been filled with updates and new info on currently known VR projects but Carve Snowboarding was the first brand new one to be revealed. As further updates are released for the snowboarding title, VRFocus will let you know.
‘Carve Snowboarding’ Coming to VR From Creator of ‘1080° Snowboarding’
1080° Snowboarding (1998) is a classic Nintendo 64 classic snowboarding game that inspired future titles in the genre like SSX Tricky. Now one of the game’s original creators, Giles Goddard, is bringing a new, first-person VR snowboarding game, Carve Snowboarding to Oculus.
Revealed today during the Oculus Gaming Showcase, Carve Snowboarding is aiming to bring first-person snowboarding to VR. While the game is seemingly set to launch on an Oculus headset, exactly which Oculus headset isn’t year clear, though the graphics would lead us to expect Quest as the baseline version. We’ve reached out for clarification.
There’s little info on Carve Snowboarding thus far; Eurogamer gleaned some details on a VR snowboarding prototype from Giles Goddard back in 2019, though it isn’t clear how much of the vision laid out there will make its way into Carve Snowboarding. The game is being developed by Goddard and his studio, Chuhai Labs.
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