- 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
