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Control Amsterdam ‘Traffic Jams’ in Q1 2021

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Little Chicken Game Company and Vertigo Games are currently working on the rather unique virtual reality (VR) title Traffic Jams, today releasing further info. Originally due for launch this year, the team has published a new developer video showcasing more of the videogame including a new location.

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Featuring Little Chicken Game Company’s CEO Yannis Bolman, he goes into detail regarding the VR mechanics and chaotic gameplay that awaits players. The studio wanted to create easy to understand distractions as well as natural gestures for anyone to intuitively pickup.

“The first feature we added was an angry wasp,” Bolman explains in the video. “It was easy to recognize and understand, and flailing your arms around on a busy intersection seemed like a fun way to confuse the drivers waiting for your signal. From that point on, we just kept adding more and more funny and absurd ideas!”

As a tongue-in-cheek traffic jam simulator where players have to deal with vehicles and pedestrians alike, there are plenty of weird and wonderful events taking place such as zombie pedestrians to buildings spontaneously catching fire to distract them. Even the occasional meteorite will appear to heat things up. 

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Bolman also reveals how many cities will feature: “In the final game there will be 5 different locations that each have its own set of challenges. We’re taking you to our home town: Amsterdam where we’ll introduce a whole new challenge: a tram that stops for nothing!”

While the original concept was a single-player experience, Traffic Jams has expanded to offer solo and multiplayer co-op modes. Up to 4 non-VR friends can all join in via a (couch) party mode.

Traffic Jams is now scheduled for a Q1 2021 launch on Oculus Quest, PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Valve Index. For further updates on the comedy title, keep reading VRFocus.

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Watch: Go In-Depth With VR Air Guitar Game Unplugged And Traffic Jams

Thursday on the Winter Wrap-Up brings not one but two festive treats from publisher Vertigo Games: new dev diaries for Traffic Jams and Unplugged.

The After The Fall developer is releasing both titles on VR headsets next year, and will share the latest on both below at 9am PT/12pm ET today. First up, Little Chicken drops by to talk what’s new with Traffic Jams, a manic game in which players control the flow of traffic using their hands. We’ve gone hands-on with the experience already and it holds promise as an intuitive use of VR that anyone could pick up and play.

After that we’re getting a fresh look at Unplugged, the hand-tracked VR air guitar game Vertigo announced it would be publishing earlier this month. We’re super intrigued as to if this Guitar Hero-alike can pull off its lofty ambitions of making us feel like we’re really shredding away.

A big thanks to Vertigo, Little Chicken and Another way for joining us for today’s debut on the Wrap-Up.

Not much longer left on the Winter Wrap-Up. We’ve already had a huge week, revealing the first gameplay of The Wizards: Dark Times on Quest, new footage of Wraith: The Oblivion and updates on Blaston and Demeo. Plus we’ve broken down our most anticipated VR games of 2021 and discussed the biggest headlines of the year. Check back in tomorrow when we’ll be revealing world exclusive gameplay of Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual and, to close us out, announcing our 2020 VR Award nominations! Check out the full schedule below.

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Next Week: UploadVR’s Winter Wrap-Up With All-New Reveals!

In search of that festive feeling? Well we’ve got a little surprise for you – UploadVR’s Winter Wrap-Up kicks off next week!

We’ll be rounding out the year in style with the help of some of our most anticipated projects of 2021. Join us every day next week at 9am PT when we’ll be debuting exclusive content for new VR games and incoming updates for some of 2020’s best titles. Check out the full schedule below!

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Starting out on Monday we’ll have the very first footage of a new Quest 2 game. What is it? We’re keeping that under wraps for now – you’ll just have to tune in to find out! Moving on to Tuesday, the team at Resolution Games has updates on its 1v1 shooter, Blaston, as well as a sneak peek at the just-announced turn-based RPG, Demeo.

Wednesday brings seasons greetings from Fast Travel Games as the team talks five reasons to play its new game, Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife, complete with the first-ever Quest 2 development footage! Meanwhile, Vertigo Games takes over Thursday with new looks at two games it’s publishing in the new year – Traffic Jams and Unplugged.

Finally, on Friday, we’ll round out the week with a brand new look at Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual. We can’t wait to see what the team at Happy Giant has in store.

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But that’s far from all! Across the week we’ll have plenty more content to share, including a chat with Atlas V about its upcoming slate of VR movies, a first look at Arizona Sunshine’s new horde map, and the reveal of an all-new VR kaiju game! Plus team Upload will be in the Download studio to talk over some of the year’s biggest topics and look forward to what’s coming in 2021. Don’t miss out on Friday, when we’ll reveal our full VR awards 2020 nominations!

So that’s next week sorted for you! UploadVR’s Winter Wrap-Up is coming in hot – don’t miss it.

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3 Reasons Why Traffic Jams Could Be Your Next VR Party Game

Traffic Jams is one of those VR games that just sort of clicks as soon as you pick it up.

In Little Chicken’s newest VR title, you control the flow of cars and pedestrians on bustling city streets. Perhaps not the most immediately exciting concept for a game, no, but Traffic Jams’ intuitive design and potential for frantic mayhem does hold a lot of promise. We spoke to Little Chicken CEO Yannis Bolman about what to expect from the game in an interview you can see below.

Actually playing two levels of Traffic Jams doesn’t really give you much sense of how the final game will turn out. It’d be like playing the first level of Overcooked and trying to decipher if it would be a hit there and then. But there are hints of something promising in here that suggest Traffic Jams could be your next VR party game.

Intuitive Control

The core foundation for Traffic Jams is its intuition. To stop cars and pedestrians you simply point at them and hold your hand up. To get them moving again, you beckon them forward with a flick of the wrist. It’s super simple to grasp regardless of your past experience with VR or even gaming in general. The game’s first few levels are pretty manageable, but we’ll be eager to see how this control scheme evolves when things get more manic.

As a side note: The game makes perfect sense for Quest hand-tracking support, which Little Chicken says it’s looking into. Hopefully something comes from that.

A Touch Of Strategy

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There are some hints at deeper elements to Traffic Jams than just pointing and signaling, too. Zombies, for example, crop up from beneath manhole covers and march towards you. You can throw items to stop them in their tracks but a better (and much more satisfying) call is to send a bus charging into them. Again, we’re looking forward to see how this element evolves as we take on tougher levels.

Things To Come

Perhaps it’s the promise of things to come that has us holding out hope on Traffic Jams, though. At our VR Showcase last week we revealed the game’s local multiplayer mode, which lets others join in via smartphone. Though there’s no two-player VR option and the game can be played entirely in single-player, it really feels like the type of title best enjoyed with others around you.

Traffic Jams releases this September for Oculus Quest, PSVR and PC VR headsets. You can wishlist on Steam here.

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Traffic Jams Signals September Launch on Oculus Quest, Playstation VR & PC VR

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It was only a couple of weeks ago that Vertigo Games announced that it would be publishing Little Chicken’s tongue-in-cheek traffic management title Traffic Jams. Today, it has been revealed that the videogame won’t be a single-player affair, offering a couch party mode as well.

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The comedic virtual reality (VR) experience is set in a world where the traffic lights have suddenly gone dark, and it’s up to you to control the situation. Taken under the wing of traffic controller Dennis he’ll teach you how to make sure drivers don’t get road rage and pedestrians don’t get in the way, whilst throwing in some random variables like monsters and natural disasters.

That’s all to look forward to in the single-player campaign. Or you can test your skills with up to 4 non-VR friends in party mode. A multiplayer experience which is both competitive and cooperative in nature, the non-VR players are able to unleash a little chaos on the VR traffic warden. Using mobile devices they can cause crashes, create distractions with bees and zombies or just throw in the occasional meteorite to heat things up. 

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Little Chicken’s Traffic Jams is scheduled to launch in September 2020 for PlayStation VR, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. Also, as it’s the Steam Game Festival at the moment you can download a demo of Traffic Jams for free for a limited time.

There will also be a developer livestream via Steam Thursday, 18th June at 11AM PT / 7PM BST / 8PM CEST, where the team will discuss gameplay mechanics. VRFocus will continue its coverage of the videogame, reporting back with further updates.

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Check Out Traffic Jams’ Manic Local Multiplayer Mode, Demo Coming This Week

Vertigo Games and Little Chicken’s Traffic Jams is getting a manic multiplayer mode.

This new mode made its debut at the Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition today in a trailer starring friends of the show, Cas and Charr. In single-player, Traffic Jams has players managing the flow of traffic. However, in the multiplayer mode, others join in on their phones and make life a little more difficult for you. Other players can direct traffic and call in events like a meteor strike.

Check it out in the footage below. It looks like things get a little heated to say the least.

Hopefully this mode proves to be as fun as other local multiplayer VR games like Acron and Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes. One common complaint with VR is that it isolates players from other people in the room, but experiences like this can also help players find new ways to connect.

On top of the multiplayer mode, Traffic Jams is also getting a demo as part of the Steam Summer Games Festival this week. It’ll give you access to some of the game’s single-player mode. We’ll have some of our own impressions of the experience a little later on too.

Traffic Jams is launching in September on pretty much every headset under the sun; Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, PSVR and Oculus Quest. We also debuted a new VR arcade game from Vertigo during the Showcase. Will you be checking the game out? Let us know in the comments below!

 

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Little Chicken’s ‘Traffic Jams’ Secures Publishing Deal With Vertigo Games

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One of the biggest challenges facing indie developers isn’t just creating a videogame but getting it published to hopefully make some money. This week Arizona Sunshine creator Vertigo Games has announced it’ll publish Little Chicken Game Company’s Traffic Jams later this year.

A tongue-in-cheek experience set in a world where all the traffic lights have stopped working, it’s up to you to stop all hell breaking loose and keep vehicles and pedestrians moving in the right direction.

While the jobs start out small, ensuring people cross the road safely and making sure drivers don’t get road rage by keeping the traffic flowing, events soon take a far more disastrous turn. You’ll have to deal with (un)natural disasters like the occasional meteorite, monsters and of course rude pedestrians and impatient drivers.

“VR is successfully carving out its place in the living room and we immediately saw the potential of Traffic Jams to excite both new and experienced VR players there,” said Richard Stitselaar, Managing Director at Vertigo Games in a statement. “Its playful art style and fun characters combined with easy to pick-up, hard to master gameplay makes it appealing and accessible to a wide audience in a genre that has not yet seen its fill. We’re thrilled to combine our forces with old friends at Little Chicken and help them bring this gem to VR players worldwide.”

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“In Vertigo Games we found the ideal partner and publisher for Traffic Jams,” said Yannis Bolman, CEO at Little Chicken Game Company. “Not only do they provide a wealth of information about the world of VR games through their experience in this field, in Vertigo Games we found like-minded souls that enjoy creativity and crazy ideas to make the most of this unique medium we call VR. Next to this synergy we’ve known the people at Vertigo for many years, and it’s been an absolute pleasure to work with them and combine our powers through Traffic Jams.“

This isn’t the first VR title from Little Chicken Game Company as the studio previously released Track Lab in 2018 for PlayStation VR. A mixed music creation and puzzle-solving videogame, VRFocus noted in its review: “Its definitely worth your time if you are interested in music or puzzle games.”

Vertigo Games and Little Chicken Game Company plan to launch Traffic Jams later this year for all major headsets.

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Arziona Sunshine Dev To Publish Traffic Jams, Coming To Our VR Showcase

Adorable and deceptively manic VR game Traffic Jams is the latest title to be published by Arizona Sunshine developer, Vertigo Games, and we’ll have a fresh look at it soon.

Vertigo Games will be publishing the title on all major VR platforms later this year. Developed by Little Chicken, Traffic Jams sees players organizing traffic flows in a stylised world, using intuitive hand gestures. Based on the footage we’ve seen so far, the game has a touch of Overcooked-style franticness to it.

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It’s the second game to be published by Vertigo following last year’s excellent A Fisherman’s Tale, which was developed by Innerspace. Vertigo itself is still hard at work on its follow-up to Arizona Sunshine, After The Fall.

But that’s not all; we’ll also have an exclusive look at Traffic Jams at the Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition in just under two weeks’ time on June 8th. The Showcase will be revealing a bunch of new games and providing fresh updates on some of your most anticipated titles, like this one. Here’s a look at what else we’ve got coming along this year.

We’ll have more teases leading up to the big show, so check back often!

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‘Traffic Jams’ Lets You Control Traffic, Help Pedestrians & Kill Zombies

On the surface, Traffic Jams looks like a pretty standard job simulator-type game, albeit with some pretty funny ragdoll citizens ambling around and smashing through windshields. In a new gameplay teaser though, the Netherlands-based studio Little Chicken Game Company is peeling back a little more of the game’s mechanics, which now includes zombie attacks.

Stepping into the shoes of Danny Schrobbeler, a Traffic Controller by trade and totally not a disgraced cop, your main mission is to keep traffic rolling and prevent cars and buses from piling up.

If you haven’t seen the game’s teaser, take a look below:

It’s cute, well done, and interesting enough, but also not entirely straying from the job simulator genre.

Now, the studio showed off a bit more of what’s in store, and its involves disruptive events such as buzzing bees and a zombie apocalypse. We’re definitively getting a slight Plant vs Zombie vibes here, as you have little else but your fellow citizen’s cars and a few tomatoes to fend off the attacks.

In a recent tweet, the studio says zombies can infect other pedestrians and also try to infect you. Additionally, the studio says there’s going to be “lots of different events,” which should keep you on your toes.

There’s no launch date in sight yet, with Little Chicken listing it as TBA on the game’s website. It is however confirmed to support PC VR headsets, which we imagine includes the full swath of SteamVR-compatible devices.

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