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- Justin Roiland co-creator of Rick and Morty is excited to be working on an idependent VR project which he is taking very seriously.

- He has tweeted revealing that he has been making stuff for the HTC Vive

- Justin has been filling three spiral-bound notebooks with ideas—story arcs, level designs, UI sketches—and talking to developers who can help


- on his excitement for the project he said:

“I have never—and I don’t say this lightly—been more energized, enthusiastic, excited, and motivated about anything in my entire life,”

“And that includes my TV show stuff.”

“With the TV show and Rick & Morty obviously, we’ve got a third season pickup and there’s other very big obligations that I have in my life,” says Roiland. “But this is going to be my passion project, and I will be spending as much as my free time on it as I possibly can.”

“Nothing compares to my excitement for this new medium,”

“And I want in, and I want to create experiences I can play, and I want to play experiences other people create, and I want to transport people to other worlds. And this is something that I am taking very, very, seriously and I’m overwhelmingly passionate about.”

- on how relevent he belives VR to be in the future he said:

“Oh my God, OK, VR is here. It’s real. This is what everyone’s been waiting for. This is going to change the planet,” says Roiland, describing his first HTC Vive experience.

“That is not hyperbole. That is my deep belief that the way the HTC Vive is designed, the way that it works, it is everything you need to create the most incredible virtual reality experiences that are 100 percent immersive and just absolutely game-changingly incredible.”

- Roiland was also one of the first Oculus Rift backers, he was one of the first people to get the second dev kit VR headset

- after he set the HTC Vive dev kit and trying it out:

 “The day I set it up, it was like a brain dump like I’ve never had before of ideas,”

“Prior to getting the dev kit I had a couple of ideas, sort of interesting concepts, and then when I got the kit I was like, ‘Oh my god, I was thinking way too big in scope.’ There’s so many amazing, really small, easy yet incredibly fun and addictive experiences that you can create with this technology.”

“Getting that system was the catalyst for me,” says Roiland. “Just going, ‘No, OK, I’m doing this. I am going to do this and I don’t care what it takes.’”

- a week and a half Roiland had three notbooks filled with ideas. He now has four “fully fleshed-out games,” with maps and storylines, and even more "little crazy thoughts" beyond those

- describing the game, Roiland said:

“I’m never going to be a serious, dramatic—well, never say never—but yeah, I’m definitely focused on really cool experiences with NPC characters that are interesting, that are in my style,”

“I’m planning to do voices. I’m planning to cast some people—some of my favorite people from Rick and Morty—as characters.”

“I want to create amazing, beautiful environments to explore,” he adds. “I’m very sci-fi oriented, I love sci-fi. I’m likely going to be focused in that area—colorful, bright alien worlds with really fun, interesting talented voice acted characters, NPCs and whatnot.”

- one partnerships for the game he’s been talking to StressLevelZero, a developer currently working on VR game Hover Junkers, and William Pugh, one of the creators of the standalone version of The Stanley Parable

http://www.pcgamer.com/creature-prison-inside-the-vr-designs-of-rick-and-mortys-co-creator/

- Funny moments from Rick and Morty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lD7zvg1reM

- Rick and Morty thread:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=206310&page=1



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1

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Ka-pi96 said:
Bit of an arrogant bastard isn't he? People starving to death in parts of the planet, being persecuted in others and living under the control of tyrants in others still. Yet VR is going to change the planet?

Yes it ll change the planet ('s way of experianceing movies & games).

Not sure how that makes him a arrogant bastard.

 

You make it sound like hes not supposed to be working, doing what he loves, makeing entertainment (tv/movies/games), until after hes personally saved the intire planet from everything bad.

Seriously? cut a guy a little slack?



Considering that you'd have to be in a first world country for it to be commercially available, I don't think so.



It would be interesting to know why he backed the Oculus but is promoting HTC Vive. Wonder if he has been paid to create content and back HTC at the same time or whether he prefers the HTC, and if so, why.

@Ka-pi, don't know why, but I was most amused by your reply.

I've decided not to jump into the VR bandwagon until a year or so down the line. And if Sony really wants to stay relevant in the VR business, they will have to make it work with other devices or at least with other applications such as Facebook, online gambling apps and sites, the new 360 degree cameras, teaching apps etc... I don't think gaming alone will be enough for VR to survive.



The is the most hyped up gimmick I've seen since motion controls



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Ka-pi96 said:
JRPGfan said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Bit of an arrogant bastard isn't he? People starving to death in parts of the planet, being persecuted in others and living under the control of tyrants in others still. Yet VR is going to change the planet?

Yes it ll change the planet ('s way of experianceing movies & games).

Not sure how that makes him a arrogant bastard.

You make it sound like hes not supposed to be working, doing what he loves, makeing entertainment (tv/movies/games), until after hes personally saved the intire planet from everything bad.

Seriously? cut a guy a little slack?

You wanna know why it's arrogant? Because he's making a grandiose statement about something which really isn't that big. Actual inventions that changed the planet: Guns, Cars, Nuclear Power, the Internet etc. Do you really think VR headsets are going to be anywhere near as important as any of those things?


The smart phone wasnt important, for the world overall... yet try asking most people to live without theirs.

VR is going to end up the same way.

 

Its not arrogant, to assume a wave of change could sweep the planet, and VR gets really big, and changes the way most of the world experiances movies & games. At most Id call him optimistic.

 

Think of it like this... was colour TV important to the world? Do you enjoy watching tv?



Ka-pi96 said:
JRPGfan said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Bit of an arrogant bastard isn't he? People starving to death in parts of the planet, being persecuted in others and living under the control of tyrants in others still. Yet VR is going to change the planet?

Yes it ll change the planet ('s way of experianceing movies & games).

Not sure how that makes him a arrogant bastard.

You make it sound like hes not supposed to be working, doing what he loves, makeing entertainment (tv/movies/games), until after hes personally saved the intire planet from everything bad.

Seriously? cut a guy a little slack?

You wanna know why it's arrogant? Because he's making a grandiose statement about something which really isn't that big. Actual inventions that changed the planet: Guns, Cars, Nuclear Power, the Internet etc. Do you really think VR headsets are going to be anywhere near as important as any of those things?

For a group of people it will, it already is for some: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVxud9N2gQ  Only when you have had a exerperience with the rift you will understand.



Ka-pi96 said:
GamechaserBE said:
Ka-pi96 said:
JRPGfan said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Bit of an arrogant bastard isn't he? People starving to death in parts of the planet, being persecuted in others and living under the control of tyrants in others still. Yet VR is going to change the planet?

Yes it ll change the planet ('s way of experianceing movies & games).

Not sure how that makes him a arrogant bastard.

You make it sound like hes not supposed to be working, doing what he loves, makeing entertainment (tv/movies/games), until after hes personally saved the intire planet from everything bad.

Seriously? cut a guy a little slack?

You wanna know why it's arrogant? Because he's making a grandiose statement about something which really isn't that big. Actual inventions that changed the planet: Guns, Cars, Nuclear Power, the Internet etc. Do you really think VR headsets are going to be anywhere near as important as any of those things?

For a group of people it will, it already is for some: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVxud9N2gQ  Only when you have had a exerperience with the rift you will understand.

A 'group of people' =/= the whole planet...

 

He never claims it ll change for everyone does he?

Did the internet ? theres still many that dont have internet yet.

 

It ll change the world, for those that can afford to buy a vr headset.



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