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Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot Now Available On Magic Leap One

Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot Now Available On Magic Leap One

Even though the Magic Leap One is still just a very early developer kit, that hasn’t stopped Magic Leap from partnering with developers to craft games worth buying. Ahead of the first ever Leap Con this week, Resolution Games (Bait and Wonderglade) and Rovio are announcing the official release today of Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot exclusively for the Magic Leap One.

We got the chance to try the game out a couple of weeks ago and it’s about what you’d expect. You use the Magic Leap controller to pull back a virtual slingshot and let loose your birds through the air to send nasty pigs toppling over. The visuals are nowhere near as crisp as you see in the trailer below (everything has a sort of see-through translucent vibe when wearing the device so that you can still see the world around you) but the detail was still there.

“It’s great to offer Angry Birds fans a completely new and unforeseen way to play the beloved Angry Birds,” said Kati Levoranta, CEO at Rovio Entertainment. “Resolution Games has done an excellent job at developing the Angry Birds to Magic Leap One. We’re always looking for opportunities to expand to new technologies and platforms, and Angry Birds FPS is an exciting step forward into the future of gaming.”

Angry Birds FPS is a free download and will launch with 28 levels. You can take advantage of the mapping technology in Magic Leap One as well by placing levels on top of tables, then knocking blocks off of the table with your slingshot. It works pretty well.

What do you think of the news? Let us know down in the comments below!

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Pigs Will Fly With Angry Birds on Magic Leap

Angry Birds is an incredibly popular mobile videogame that has spawned a truly incredible number of spin-offs, merchandise and even a movie. Now the disgruntled avians are making a move into mixed reality (MR) as they make an appearance on the Magic Leap One Creator Edition with Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot.

Nina of VRFocus spoke to Tommy Palm, the CEO of Resolution Games at Oculus Connect 5 about Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot and its creation.

Angry Birds: First Person Slingshot

“It’s Angry Birds as you’ve never seen it before,” Palm began, “It’s in 3D on your sofa, table or living room floor. The IP is owned by Rovio in Finland and we are in Sweden, so we’re very close and have been working closely with each other.”

Asked how the Angry Birds project with Magic Leap came about, Palm said: “We’d been talking internally that it might be good to do a project with a big named brand. We met with Rovio again, since we’d been friends with them since they started. We talked about cool new platforms, and an opportunity cam up for us to work with Magic Leap.”

“We’d heard a lot about Magic Leap,” Palm continued, “and we knew there was a lot of overlap between VR and head-mounted AR. So it was really fun to work with it. We emulated it in virtual reality at first and kind of guessed the specs of the device.”

Talking about the development of Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot, Palm said: “We fet within a couple of weeks that this was going to be a really fun game. One of the things that Angry Birds has always been great at is how intuitive the puzzle gameplay is. We thing we managed to capture that well.”

Angry Birds: First Person Slingshot

Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot is due out in October 2018. The full interview is available to view below. For further coverage of Magic Leap and other upcoming AR, VR or MR projects, keep checking back with VRFocus.

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Angry Birds Gets a Mixed Reality Makeover for Magic Leap One

Resolution Games has already made a name for itself in the virtual reality (VR) industry with videogames like Bait!, Wonderglade and Narrows, while Rovio Entertainment has yet to enter the immersive market. That’s going to change soon enough, with both companies collaboration on a new mixed reality (MR) experience for the Magic Leap One Creators Edition headset, Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot.

Angry Birds: First Person Slingshot

Bringing its insanely popular mobile title to the new MR device, Rovio’s Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot will put players inside the Angry Birds universe like never before, providing a first-person slingshot to let them see animated characters and objects overlaid onto their actual environment.

Keeping with the tried and tested format everyone knows where you get to fling various coloured birds – each with their own unique ability – at a range of green pig filled buildings, just this time in 3D.

Kati Levoranta, CEO at Rovio Entertainment, commented in a statement: “We’re excited to expand the Angry Birds brand and universe to new and emerging platforms like Magic Leap, delivering fans a unique way to engage with their favorite characters. Resolution Games has done an incredible job bringing Angry Birds to life in a new experience that will let players see and feel what it’s like to battle the pigs like never before.”

Angry Birds: First Person Slingshot

“It has been an incredible experience bringing Rovio’s massively successful and beloved entertainment franchise to mixed reality,” said Tommy Palm, CEO of Resolution Games. “Developing for the Magic Leap platform was a very unique and inspiring process for our team, and we’re confident fans will love how the game is brought to life.”

Rovio and Resolution Games will be releasing Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot for Magic Leap One Creators Edition this Fall. This follows a similar announcement by Funomena yesterday regarding its fairy tale experience Luna: Moondust Garden, also coming to the headset in the next couple of months. Due to the expense and limited availability of the headset, the audience is going to be very small, but they should showcase what Magic Leap One Creators Edition is capable of. For further updates on Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot, keep reading VRFocus.

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First-person ‘Angry Birds’ AR Game is Coming to Magic Leap This Fall

Angry Birds, the mobile breakout hit, is coming to Magic Leap in a brand new game called Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot. Due to launch this Fall, the game is quite literally a first-person take on the physics-based slingshot smasher game.

Rovio Entertainment’s Angry Birds franchise is one of the smartphone world’s earliest smash-hits. The original game of the same name has more than 100 million installs on Android, according to the Google Play store. The entire franchise has achieved some four billion downloads, according to the company.

Now, in partnership with Resolution Games, Rovio is bringing Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot to augmented reality on Magic Leap this fall. While the original mobile games give players a side-scrolling view as they launch birds from a slingshot in an effort to knock down wobbly forts, Angry Birds FPS will put the slingshot in players hands, allowing them to launch birds from a first-person view and walk around the opposing structure for the best vantage point.

The game is heading to the Magic Leap One headset this Fall, though an exact release date and price haven’t been announced.

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This seems like a smart approach for a game on Magic Leap One, since the structures to be destroyed are naturally distant from the user, and understandably small, which hopefully means that field of view clipping won’t present much of an issue.

While Angry Birds has a distinct family-friendly allure, it’s doubtful that a demographic of younger kids will be playing Angry Birds FPS on Magic Leap’s $2,300 developer kit headset any time soon, though getting the franchise onto the platform could be a win in the long term, and a fun distraction for the developers experimenting with the headset today.

This won’t actually be the first time that Angry Birds found itself experimenting in the VR/AR space. Way back in 2015 the company showed a glimpse of Angry Birds VR running on a Gear VR headset, though the title never saw a public release.

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Resolution Games Brings Wonderglade and Bait! To Viveport

China has become a market of great interest to virtual reality (VR) content developers and hardware manufacturers, as it is a fast-growing market that is embracing new technology. To cater to this developing market, Resolution Games have released two of its leading titles on Viveport, making them available to customers in China.

The two titles are virtual fishing simulator Bait! And carnival-themed mini-game collection Wonderglade, both of which are now available on Viveport, making them available for HTC Vive Focus users.

HTC Vive Focus headset

Bait! Is probably the best-known title from Resolution Games, first launched on the Samsung Gear VR and racking up over 2 million downloads. The title features five different fishing lakes, which users can explore to find and collect different fish species, including the elusive rare fish as part of a story campaign to save an ailing aquarium.

Wonderglade is a mini-game collection which takes users to a magical theme park where players are challenged to beat various VR incarnations of traditional carnival games, including mini-golf, tiny basketball, a water-gun game and several others, all of which have an eccentric theming and wacky characters for added entertainment.

“Our games have received a warm welcome by VR users around the world who enjoy relaxing by our virtual lakes on Bait! or laughing their way through Wonderglade’s carnival-themed mini-games. We’re excited for users in China to finally get to play them with all the Viveport supported devices,” said Tommy Palm, co-founder and CEO of Resolution Games. “The games will be available with full six-degrees-of-freedom head movement on supported devices and players will be able to really lean in and inspect the detail, while also feeling much more immersed in the experience.”

Bait! Will cost ¥ 27 (RMB) while Wonderglade is priced at ¥ 13. Both titles can be downloaded from on any device supported by Viveport.

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For further coverage on new and upcoming VR titles, keep checking back with VRFocus.

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Multiplayer Mode Teased for AR Fishing Game Bait! Under the Surface

Resolution Games has made several virtual reality (VR) videogames in its time including Narrows, Solitaire Jester and Wonderglade. However, it’s most popular by far has been fishing title Bait!, which saw followup experience Bait! Arctic Open made for Facebook Spaces and then a venture towards augmented reality (AR) with Bait! Under the Surface. While the latter has yet to be released the studio has teased a new feature today, multiplayer.

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Details on the multiplayer mode are purely limited to a brief teaser trailer that Resolution Games has just released and can be viewed at the bottom of the page. Using ARKit and ARCore’s new features one person can crack open a fishing pool which others can then join in on. Whether they have to be invited via a friend list or various players can join in isn’t clear just yet.

Three people are playing in the video so at least the minimum number of supported players is known, but could even more join in on the same fishing spot? Whilst that possibility is likely the studio has yet to confirm those details just yet.

Obviously, one of the main points of a multiplayer mode is competition, players will be able to showoff their latest catch to one another and maybe there could even be rewards for the best catch.

Bait! Under the Surface

First shown during the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2018 back in March, Bait! Under the Surface is designed to take the series’ simple gameplay action into new territory, allowing players to enjoy the Bait! series anywhere. Just like the previous entries in the series each fish will carry a monetary value which players can use to upgrade their equipment, buy new lures, and bait to catch even bigger fish.

Resolution Games has yet to confirm an actual release date for Bait! Under the Surface, simply saying it’ll arrive later this year for iOS and Android devices. For further updates, keep reading VRFocus.

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Mogi Creator Mathieu Castelli Joins Resolution Games as CCO

Stockholm-based virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) developer Resolution Games has been going from strength to strength ever since it launched Solitaire Jester and then fishing title Bait! Today, the studio has announced several new additions to the team as development continues on several projects.

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First up is Mathieu Castelli, joining the leadership team as chief creative officer (CCO). Castelli’s expertise is in AR, location-based mobile gaming, Google Maps API and data analytics. He is best known for creating Mogi; a location-based community game that helped pioneer the collect-hunt-trade game genre based on map data.

He brings over two decades of experience to the role, having recently served as the CEO of C4M, a Montreal-based mobile games studio. Prior to C4M, he served as the VP of business development for Mobivillage and was the CEO for NEWT Games (creators of Mogi), which was acquired by For-Side.

Joining Castelli at Resolution Games is well-known art guru and former Mojang artist Henrik Pettersson (known by the online pseudonym “Carnalizer”) as art director.

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And just to round things off Resolution Games has announced the addition of industry veterans Andras Vajlok and Joe Kraus to its advisory board. Vajlok, is the former CFO of Paradox Interactive who took the company to it’s IPO and $2.5B valuation. While Kraus is a general partner at GV and a two-time entrepreneur having founded Excite.com and JotSpot.

“We’re excited to grow our leadership team. Mathieu’s expertise in location-based games and Henrik’s artist abilities are unparalleled. We look forward to having their help in steering the company into its next chapter of VR and AR games,” said Tommy Palm, CEO of Resolution Games in a statement. “We also couldn’t be happier to expand our advisory board with Joe and Andras. Both will be invaluable as we head into our next growth stages and set our sites on the evolving visual computing market.”

The launch of the Lenovo Mirage Solo saw three of Resolution Games‘ titles arrive for the headset, Bait!, Wonder Glade and Narrows. Alongside VR the studio is currently working on its first AR project Bait! Under the Surface.

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VRinFocus Set to Bring Together Developers and Investors this Spring

VRFocus Ltd. today announces VRinFocus, a brand new summit designed to bring virtual reality and augmented reality developers face-to-face with the technology investment community. The VRinFocus expo will be held on 25th April 2018, at De Vere Grand Connaught, 61-65 Great Queen St, London, offering startups a unique opportunity to meet with financial investors from across the UK and Europe.

Presenting the largest line-up of AR, VR and MR startups in Europe, VRinFocus will address both sides of the investment divide. For startups, the event will offer sessions discussing how to approach investors and the finer aspects of working with invested capital, while investors themselves will be able to get unique opportunities with already vetted AR, VR and MR startups and the team behind them.

VRinFocus will offer a format different to a traditional AR/VR/MR expo, with a comprehensive line-up of speakers, exhibitors and deal making opportunities all with the unique twist of being designed for the technology investment community to meet directly with the teams behind the latest hardware and software innovations.

Kevin Joyce, CEO & Editor of VRFocus, said: “I’m hugely excited about the opportunity to connect AR, VR and MR startups from the UK with investors from around the globe. VRinFocus will be a unique melting pot of ideas, finance and technology, and will help catalyse the next-generation of the immersive mediums.”

Moshe Wasserman, Director at InvestVR, said: “The investment landscape of XR has always been very interesting for me. Investors coming in to this industry find themselves at an extremely exciting time in AR, VR and MR. At VRinFocus, we will hear from industry leaders on both the investment and startup sides and learn what opportunities the future holds in store for the industries, and the best ways in which to accelerate their growth.”

The speaker line-up aimed at startups will include Andreas Juliusson, PR & Marketing Manager at Fast Travel Games, and Tommy Palm, CEO Resolution Games. Fresh from the launch of debut title Apex Construct for PlayStation VR, HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, Andreas will offer unique insight into the planning and execution of a marketing campaign for a studio without any prior recognition, while Tommy, having recently released a fifth VR videogame, Narrows for Google Daydream, will discuss the divide between self-funding and investment, and the reasons behind the decision the team at Resolution Games made. More speakers for both the startup and investment communities will be announced in due course.

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Partnering with InvestVR, VRFocus will bring the most high profile investors from Europe and beyond to VRinFocus. For your opportunity to claim your free startup booth at VRinFocus please contact info@vrinfocus.co. To request an invite to VRinFocus please visit the official website, http://www.vrinfocus.co/.

For more information on VRinFocus, please contact:

Kevin Joyce, CEO, Editor at VRFocus: kjoyce@vrfocus.com
Itay Ron, Chief Startup Relations at InvestVR: itay@vrinfocus.co

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Hands-On: Narrows Is A Pirate Adventure With Roguelike Elements

Hands-On: Narrows Is A Pirate Adventure With Roguelike Elements

We haven’t written about a whole lot of Google Daydream exclusive titles lately. That’s not for a lack of interest — the Pixel and Pixel 2 are excellent smartphones and the Daydream is a very intuitive platform — but it’s just due to a lack of new, exciting software coming out lately.

Narrows from Resolution Games (the same team behind Bait!) released last week however and actually does deliver on the promise of a game with some real meat on its bones, even if it still very much “feels” like a mobile VR title, as expected.

When you first start up Narrows you take on the role of the captain of a highly-successful crew of pirates. You embark into battle against a mysterious ghost ship that somehow resurrects itself after you destroy it and takes you out on the open seas. This is the catalyst for the game as a whole as you’re sent back to a starter ship to try and go from rags to riches.

The main menu is abreast with about a dozen different silhouetted vessels, each growing in size as you move from left to right, but they all cost a specific resource that I’ve got zero of at the moment. The starter ship aptly named “Wreck” it is, then.

When you’re in the game the overworld map lays before you on a tabletop and that’s when the roguelike elements become apparent. You’ve got resources like cannonballs, food, and gold to manage and you can move around the map from point-to-point resolving various types of encounters as you go.

One node could have an enemy ship to fight while another could have a sunken ship full of loot and treasure. There are also merchants and trader ships at which you can buy more food or cannonballs and even equip upgrades to your ship’s layout.

When you’re actually in a fight you view your ship from the side with the walls shaved off, similar to Fallout Shelter, and use the Daydream controller to select crewmembers and assign them duties. When your ship is hit, for example, rooms could catch fire in which case you’d assign the water-bucket-pouring-person to go attend to the catastrophe while other mates may be manning the canons.

Actually shooting the canons is a bit wonky since the Daydream controller only recognizes where you’re pointing and isn’t positionally tracked, but basically you arc your shot in an attempt to hit the enemy ship as it’s moving around in real-time. Eventually you’ll even have to fend off enemy pirates that try to board your ship too.

And that’s the whole gameplay loop more or less. You progress across the map, find loot, upgrade your ship, buy new ships, and try not to fail miserably. Since it has roguelike elements though, chances are you will die more often than you’d like — and that’s okay.

Narrows is now avaialble for Google Daydream for $9.99 on the Google Play Store. If you decide to check it out, let us know what you think down in the comments below!

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Pirate Adventure Game Narrows Hits Daydream This February

Pirate Adventure Game Narrows Hits Daydream This February

Prep YAR Daydream headsets because pirate-themed adventure game, Narrows, by Resolution Games (Bait! and Wonderglade) is dropping its anchor next month on February 15th. Described as “a roguelike strategy game that’s a little bit FTL, a little bit Sid Meier’s Pirates,” Narrows will cost $9.99 at launch.

Resolution has quickly made a name for itself as one of the strongest mobile VR game developers and Narrows certainly looks like it will be up to that same standard.

Judging from the trailer above, it definitely seems like there is a nice diversity of gameplay types from a top-down strategy element with map movement, to ship battles, and even melee combat against enemies trying to board your ship.

With the game’s launch just about two weeks away it won’t be long before we can put it through its paces and see how it stacks up on the high seas.

Let us know your thoughts on it down in the comments below!

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