Foosball VR
Coduar · 2018 · Simulation, Sports, Indie, VR
PC
Positive93% · 15
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About Foosball VR
Foosball VR is a table football simulator focused on the same sensation you get from playing it in the real world. The player starts in a pub interior with a foosball table that stands in the middle. Access to the in-game menu is provided by pressing a physical button placed on the side of the table. Two flat screen TVs located near the ceiling show the current score of a match.
One of the great features of the full release is game modes. We have ten of them:
We have put a lot of effort into development and testing to ensure that the ball behaves precisely as we observe it at a real-world table. The properties of all physical materials were set to values that close the gap between virtual and real world.
There are four levels of skills of the AI opponent. The player can choose from easy, medium, hard and terminator. By design, the terminator should be an almost unbeatable level of skills. It is only recommended for really experienced and skilled people. The main difference between these standards is based on AI's reaction time, reaction speed, execution speed and range of tricks that it can perform.
Controlling four rows of footballers by one person is tough. To mitigate this, we have developed some helpers that help the player to achieve better results.
What looks good in the headset, doesn't look attractive on the 2D screen. We wanted to make spectating more pleasant. That is why by default on the monitor we don't show exactly what the player is seeing. The most area of the screen is covered by the top-down view on the table and a small frame of the player's VR view in the top-right corner. The player can swap these views at any time during the game by pressing a button on the controller. On top of that, to bring spectating on a whole new cinematic level, the player can trigger a "fly-around" camera and show the gameplay while showing the environment as well.
We don't want the player to be constrained by his/her physical characteristic and by size of the room. With a press of a button on the controller, the player can adjust his/her position and height in the VR world to make the gaming more comfortable.
10 Game Modes
One of the great features of the full release is game modes. We have ten of them:
- Standard - the most realistic foosball simulation you can get for VR,
- Bomberman - you play with a ball that is, in fact, a bomb that explodes in short time intervals. Be sure to send it towards your opponent shortly before it goes off - he might lose some of the players for a couple of seconds,
- Wiggle-Wiggle - have you ever wondered how it would be to play the game with rubber-like elastic footballers? Well, now you have a chance to try it out,
- Ice Level - the whole foosball field gets frosted and instead of playing with a ball we play with an ice cube!
- Pong - are you a fan of the 8-bit microcomputers or early arcade machines? After playing this game mode we are sure you will be,
- Fast and Furious - good for reflex training. The ball can go faster or slower depending on the game pace but it will never do a full stop.
- Size Doesn't Matter - depending on the game score - the ball will grow or shrink when being controlled by a particular player.
- Goalkeeper Wars - this game mode exists in the real world too. Two goalkeepers defend each other shots.
- Magnetic - you play a metal ball which is attracted by magnets placed behind the goalkeepers.
- Portals - the ball can teleport from the one side of the table to the other.
Advanced Physics
We have put a lot of effort into development and testing to ensure that the ball behaves precisely as we observe it at a real-world table. The properties of all physical materials were set to values that close the gap between virtual and real world.
Smart AI
There are four levels of skills of the AI opponent. The player can choose from easy, medium, hard and terminator. By design, the terminator should be an almost unbeatable level of skills. It is only recommended for really experienced and skilled people. The main difference between these standards is based on AI's reaction time, reaction speed, execution speed and range of tricks that it can perform.
Match Helpers
Controlling four rows of footballers by one person is tough. To mitigate this, we have developed some helpers that help the player to achieve better results.
- Snap handle helper - helps you with the moment when your hand is close to the handle, and it works in two distinct modes - ghost and interpolate. In the ghost mode, you will see a ghost image of the footballers showing you the resulting angle after you will finally grab the handle. In the interpolate mode you will see footballers actually rotating to the resulting angle before the grab.
- Axis raise helper - helps you with shots from the defence by raising the midfield and offence rows whenever you control the goalkeeper and the defence rows.
- Axis centre helper - helps you with defence by centring your goalkeeper and the defence rows whenever you move your hands to midfield and offence rows.
Spectator View
What looks good in the headset, doesn't look attractive on the 2D screen. We wanted to make spectating more pleasant. That is why by default on the monitor we don't show exactly what the player is seeing. The most area of the screen is covered by the top-down view on the table and a small frame of the player's VR view in the top-right corner. The player can swap these views at any time during the game by pressing a button on the controller. On top of that, to bring spectating on a whole new cinematic level, the player can trigger a "fly-around" camera and show the gameplay while showing the environment as well.
Player Position Configuration
We don't want the player to be constrained by his/her physical characteristic and by size of the room. With a press of a button on the controller, the player can adjust his/her position and height in the VR world to make the gaming more comfortable.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Virtual Reality has pleasant reasons to experience different things more or less, especially what is impossible in real life or totally irresponsible, it is always nice to experience impossible or new things to even existing activities through Virtual Reality, and sometimes think you just don't realize until you spot a title that activities can still fall from the sky that we didn't have in VR yet, table football is again a unique choice to add to this list of VR experiences. Often it is the nostalgia that gives us almost as much pleasure in certain activities through Virtual Reality and for other people it can be hobby related or curiosity. Gameplay of all game modes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw6-oWbmdXI VR Foosball is a fantastic VR game in which we can experience an almost realistic experience of the well-known 'cafe game' Table Football. Also, VR Foosball is an enjoyable choice that allows you to introduce VR to a friend who has never done VR before. People trying VR for the first time can easily get confused with the initial knowledge of the vr controllers (and buttons) and the hustle and bustle of the 360 degree environments, Table football is something that most r…25 found this helpful
I re-purchased this game again after receiving a message from the developer that an issue had been resolved, and it certainly now is worth 10/10 Good game variations, and on the Vive it plays extremely well. Good to know that there's someone there who listens and keeps an eye on the feedback. Well done guys2 found this helpful
Nice game, it is realistic in terms of physics 💪😎👍
table feels pretty good, ai is written well, but they really need to add friction to the players feet physics wise, control of direction comes entirely from positioning rather than position+movement vector, if they fixed this it would likely play exactly like a real table, still pretty fun though and worth the money if you like foosball
Looking forward to play a lot more of my favorite sport from my youth:) The table responds like the real one. Very well made! It feels great to play. I did have some issue with not being able to grab the sticks quickly. Sometimes the controller did not respond well to it. But that can also be because I noticed later that the battery was near dead . Only played it for a bit, but this sure would be great to play in multiplayer! I would love to challenge my friends! Please add multiplayer! And the menu needs work. I could not get the graphic settings to max. because i kept hitting the settings above that. Not intuitive and not working well. Also it would be great to be able to just move the table to wherever you want. (or move me wherever I want to get on the best spot for the table) Somehow it was a bit out of my playing field, making me hit my desk a few times when trying to shoot. Also I could not find how to change the height back to normal after I hit a button by accident which made the table way higher. (or me way smaller) I hope this game will keep getting developed!
what can i say well grathics are amazing but need a bit of optimizing game plays well it would be nice if you can feel a bit more vibration when hitting ball so it feals more real local multiplayer would be good and online would be great table designs would be good intead of one table type but alltogether game has a lot of pottential
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