SWERY, who made his VR debut in Death Game Hotel with Death Game Hotel VR, wants to make a multiplayer experience “never seen before.” It’s been 2 weeks since the
was released on Quest. This gambling horror puzzle game, which we deemed “excels at multiplayer,” in our
review. White Owls Inc.’s debut VR title is not the first virtual reality game Hidetaka “SWERY’ Suehiro explored. He had previously played some Death Game Hotel in 2017, and also a recent review. VR experimentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU8GSnfmLaQcanceled food-themed PSVR gameIn an email interview with UploadVR, White Owls’ CEO revealed that Death Game Hotel was conceived during 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic. White Owls presented Meta with a demo of the prototype. White Owls gave VR headsets out to their employees, and they held VR game meetings. The experience inspired the creation of a space that people can use to connect and come together at any time. White Owls was inspired by the
s,
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s, initially considering using Mahjong or Poker as Death Game Hotel’s base. With an added twist, players would have to “bet beyond our expectations.” Squid GameConsidering previous takes on the “death game” concept across video games like Danganronpa have often been single-player, I was surprised that multiplayer was always White Owls’ main focus.Saw“Everything was designed and developed with multiplayer as the main experience in mind. Single-player mode was actually added much later. It’s similar to a campaign in FPS. Suehiro told me the most difficult part of the project was establishing cheating mechanisms and determining the detection time for cheating. White Owls eventually limited the timing window while allowing a grace period after detection.Kaiji“Since it’s a multiplayer game, it’s truly unpredictable when and who will attempt to cheat. Suehiro said that VR was the best option for Death Game Hotel because of the social aspect of the game. He said the VR platform gave him an “overwhelming feeling of being in one place”. If I ever create VR work, I will focus on the sensations which are hard to replicate on a screen. White Owls decided that mixed reality wouldn’t work for Death Game Hotel, as the game requires players to gather friends in an imagined setting. Will Death Game Hotel be available on Steam and PSVR 2 in the future? White Owls “has various strategies in place” to bring this work to more people, but they “won’t succeed” when the Quest Version doesn’t gain popularity. A resounding “Yes!” A resounding “Yes!” told me all I needed to. After working on our first VR project I think we’ve successfully recreated sensations you can’t experience on a screen. In addition, we have gained valuable experience from overcoming challenges that we never encountered on traditional platforms. We plan to use this information when developing future games. Would White Owls be interested in VR versions of previous games such as the 2010 survival horror game Deadly Premonition? Suehiro says it depends on the right holders but, “if given the opportunity, I’d certainly do it.” He also confirmed White Owls created a Tomodachi Game during the sequel’s development, though this was “just a test” and was subsequently scrapped.
Death Game Hotel is available now on the
platform.