For the Student's Choice Presentation, I've chosen to speak about a VR game- The Invisible Hours.
The Invisible Hours is a complex murder mystery in VR, in which players freely explore an intricate web of interwoven stories within a sprawling mansion – in order to untangle the dark truth at its heart. It is one of the deepest narrative experiences in VR to date. It is an interesting story that is told in a VR game made by Tequila Works.
A group of strangers receive a curious invitation from the enigmatic inventor, Nikola Tesla, offering each of them the chance to make amends for their darkest wrongdoings. When the last guest arrives at Tesla’s isolated mansion laboratory, they find him dead – murdered. Disgraced Swedish detective, Gustaf Gustav, vows to find the killer amongst the other guests: a blind butler, a convicted murderer, the world’s most famous actress, Tesla’s former assistant, the son of a wealthy railroad magnate, and rival inventor Thomas Edison. But none of these people are what they seem.
All the seven suspects in the mansion continue their stories in real time throughout the game, even if the player is not there to see them. This means there are seven very different but intersecting stories all happening at the same time. Players will need to make careful decisions about where to be, and when, in order to unravel the mystery.
The player is invisible to the cast of characters, giving them freedom to follow and observe anyone in the story – or to explore the mansion for hidden clues at their own pace. The game is a gripping mystery, and to find all its deepest secrets will require careful observation and exploration.
As an invisible audience member, you don’t sit and watch – instead, in Virtual Reality, you explore freely. You can follow any character at any time. You can go anywhere in the entire mansion.
As a fly on the wall inside this VR experience, you have total freedom to explore each character’s story – to see how they all interconnect and to untangle the truth from their web of lies.
This VR Game can be played in Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.