MN VR and HCI June: 2025: Spiders
June 25 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm CDT
Making a market-friendly Spider – RJ White
Earlier this year in a quick and dirty development cycle, I developed a concept for a multiplayer VR game in a month, and had 50,000+ players less than a month after launch. I’ll be talking about this game, simply called “Spiders”.
I’ll talk in detail about :
- Starting from scratch, kitbashing, and using existing tools to speed up development
- “Gorilla locomotion”, a popular and trendy movement mechanic, applied to the concept
- Marketing and getting the name out there when there’s little hope for natural discovery or store exposure on the Meta Quest platform nowadays
Come listen and ask questions! Try Spiders for free on Quest.
AWE and WWDC recap – Amir Berenjian and Zach Wendt
We’ll also have a quick overview of going to Augmented World Expo by Amir (live or by proxy) and AR/VR announcements from Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference by Zach. Feel free to add any cool product or software announcements – especially you Vision Pro owners!
Schedule:
- 6:30 Social and setup
- 7:00 Kickoff / announcements
- 7:15 Amir and Zach
- 7:30 RJ
- ~8:30 Tear-down, cross the sidewalk to Yardhouse
Attending:
This event will be in person at the REM5 STUDIOS new office in West End, and live streamed on https://www.youtube.com/igdatc
Park underground and take the central red elevator to ground level, then cross the sidewalk. REM5 STUDIOS is across from Yardhouse. Map below.
About MN VR and HCI:
MN VR and HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) welcomes developers, tinkerers and enthusiasts working with all variety of VR, AR, HCI, hardware hacking, creative coding and interactive art. Members are working on projects with custom displays and lenses, projection mapping, mocap, tiny computers, servos and sensors, interactive art and a wide variety of VR, AR, motion and computer vision applications. If you’ve only been to our parent group IGDATC meetings, MN VR and HCI is a slightly different format: We aim for smaller group discussions and lots of specific details.
