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Try out The IOTA Project Today With a Free Demo

Last month just before Gamescom indie studio DreamSail Games announced its first virtual reality (VR) videogame, a destructive mech-based shooter called The IOTA Project. At the same time the studio also revealed plans for a demo to be released this month. Well today that’s now available on Steam.

The IOTA Project is about smashing stuff up as you pilot a giant robot armed to the teeth with an assortment of weapons. While you can raise the city just with your fists, how about adding some rockets into the equation or if you can find them, there are a few swords laying around for maximum damage.

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Its not just tall skyscrapers that can fall foul of your wrath. Located throughout the streets and in the skies are an assortment of enemies with which to do battle. To aid in their annihilation the mech has several secondary weapons systems to deploy, such as a head-mounted laser, Core Blast, an artillery barrage plus Electro Blast, which sends out a shockwave to stun enemies and send objects flying.

DreamSail Games hasn’t yet confirmed a released date for The IOTA Project on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, so you’ll just have to spend your time playing the demo.

As the studio releases further details about The IOTA Project, VRFocus will keep you updated.

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DreamSail Games Release First Footage of The IOTA Project

New York-based indie developer DreamSail Games recently announced its first virtual reality (VR) project in the form of The IOTA Project for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. As destructive mech videogame, the studio has now released the first gameplay trailer.

The pre-alpha footage showcases some of the early design ideas and gameplay mechanics players can look forward to when piloting a massive city crushing robot. Weapons range from simply using fists to destroy enemies and buildings, to rockets and swords for maximum damage. There are three secondary weapons on hand, activated by pressing one of the three red buttons located in the cockpit. These will fire off a head-mounted laser beam, an artillery barrage, and a radial EMP type blast.

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VRFocus spoke with The IOTA Project’s producer Kevin Porras regarding the title and how it came about. “One of those projects that I really wanted to make was, I really love mechs, I love anime, I love just giant robots in any sort of form. So we all wrote up these pitches and my pitch was ‘hey I want to make a giant mech game that was like purple space programme paired with Evangelion.’ And so we did a lot of campaigning in the office, I tried to see who was interested in my idea, and I got a lot of people on board with mine. So we went a prototyped it, it seemed fun, so we went into the whole process of trying to make the first version that we could share with people to see if other people found it interesting.”

That’s not all DreamSail Games has revealed. If you like the look of the video you’ll soon be able to play a demo for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The team plans on releasing a taste of The IOTA Project in approximately two weeks, with a more concrete date to be announced closer to the time.

There are several mech style videogames currently available for VR headsets, such as Archangel, an on-rails shooter, or VRobot, another destructive, city destroying experience.

VRFocus will continue its coverage of The IOTA Project, reporting back with the latest updates.