HyperBody

HyperBody

Pete Jiadong Qiang · 2024 · Adventure, VR, Walking Simulator, Story Rich, LGBTQ+

PC
Positive82% · 11
This game is free to play. Get it on Steam →

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About HyperBody

Welcome to HyperBody dungeons, an experimental open-world VR game space with six intense gameplay levels: Pinkray, Seventeen/Sixty-One, Vampire Squid, Stratholme.GoStop, Typhoon Lionrock, and Garden Portal.

Immerse yourself in an aesthetised trance world that showcases the anime, comics, games, and novels of European and Asian fandoms. The VR experience is "passive", requiring only basic movements such as walking, flying, rotating, and touching. It will help if you search for the portal with a shining eye shape that will take you to a new level.

The experiment encourages players to use their entire bodies to explore the VR space and provide feedback on its aesthetics, movement, and overall feelings!

Are you ready to embark on this psychedelic, rhythm-fueled adventure and imagine an alternative VR cosmos?


PLAYER INSTRUCTIONS



For HyperBody's experimental nature, please check system requirements first, view the quick reference and start playing.

If you are interested, browse the manual and join our Discord community!


LEVEL 1: PINKRAY



Pinkray is a result of a collaborative effort that celebrates queer "tuning" through vidding, shipping, interviews, and architectural mods. It showcases a new "game-fandom" that constantly emerges as "intra-actions".

It features non-collision NPCs, architectural ruins, visual novels with 3D animated texts, and affective NPC dialogues!


LEVEL 2: SEVENTEEN/SIXTY-ONE



Seventeen/Sixty-One is co-created through research and interviews with Chinese science fiction writer Tang Fei. It offers an alternative vision of queer, feminine, and technology in the Chinese science fiction world.

It features 2D illustrations, animations and 3D texts as interactive paths, accompanied by various soundscapes and atmospheric objects.


LEVEL 3: VAMPIRE SQUID



Vilem Flusser's book of the same name inspires the abstract cosmos of Vampire Squid. Explore multiple worlds created by remixing 3D scans of spaces, cartographies, and surfaces from London and Berlin. This complex spatial autoethnographic archive showcases Flusser's ideas on skin, space, and sexuality.

It features non-collision 3D-scanned architectural ruins on a cosmic scale and surreal NPCs.


LEVEL 4: STRATHOLME.GOSTOP



Stratholme.GoStop presents a unique combination of physical and virtual elements based on my best childhood friend, Boxiao's short novel. It has modding and crossover elements between a Chinese post-industrial ordnance factory welfare zone and the Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne universe.

It features visual novels based on dodecahedron objects and various Chinese urban space 3D-scanned ruins.


LEVEL 5: TYPHOON LIONROCK



Typhoon Lionrock is highly speculative about a VR game space's movement, direction, scale, and soundscape. Very difficult and for hard-core players, this level is a tribute to my time killed at the Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong.

Be careful not to get dizzy and nauseous from the multiple abstract scenes referenced in Hong Kong, Dunhuang, and Chongqing.


LEVEL 6: GARDEN PORTAL



Garden Portal is based on Chinese immortality cultivation. Explore a non-linear audio-visual space through the primal VR experience with intentionally incomplete and imperfect sound and architectural design.

It features numerous NPCs to be found and touched with multiple hidden tokens and architectural ruins.


SUPPORTED BY


Hyperbody utilises the Wwise sound engine (academic license) for an immersive soundscape.
The game's development benefited from valuable feedback received during various evaluation workshops at Goldsmiths Computing Department.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Apr 28, 2024
[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38888018-United-Critics/] Please follow [b]United Critics[/b] for quality reviews[/url] [h2]HyperBody Review[/h2] [h1]Hyper Void[/h1] Welcome to nothing; float through the void, where you’ll see ruins, cult activities, falling spacemen, and occasional trees. With no audio and no purpose, all you have to do is float and look at the surroundings for hours on end until you reach a bit better times of color. [h1]The Game of The Play[/h1] HyperBody is a mind-exploring, walking simulator, VR game whose purpose is to show the player the wonders and complexity of VR and, in general, the weirdness of VR. I started the game, and there was this small text telling the player how to move but using controller button names. (Not a VR controller) And there was no direction as to where to go or what the purpose was. Since the player didn’t “walk” they floated by looking in the direction they wanted to go and pressing the forward button on their VR controller. The visuals were just all gray; there was this sort of stairwell that went up and had a tree on the right side of it by the top. Then there was this wall. After entering the wall, this whole new…
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Recommended Mar 29, 2024
[h1]Experienced on the Meta Quest 3[/h1] You can view my gameplay & early impressions here: https://youtu.be/T1pInisVm2I This is a very trippy, experimental art experience that is difficult to describe. You basically float around and just vibe with the environment as you'll see different shapes, sounds, & eventually colors (you start out with black & white worlds). While, I did enjoy the experience and recommend it, after all it is free to play. I do have some criticisms. The biggest one is that there is no smooth or snap turning available. The other big complaint is that the app / game could be better optimized. I had to lower the video settings to low in order to get 72 fps, but even then my frame rate would halve in certain locations. Overall, this is very niche. If you enjoy experimental art, I think it's one you should definitely try out and see if the experience speaks to you. [b]Rate ?/10.[/b] [quote]Please note: I received a free Steam key through the Steam Curator Connect program. If you enjoyed my review, please consider joining my Steam Curator group [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Oculus_WMR]Oculus Rift Reviews.[/url][/quote]
10 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 17, 2024
9 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 31, 2024
HyperBody is a Free VR experimental VR walking simulator blending architectural ruins, cult themes, sensorial vibes, and queer narratives. It worked on my Index and HTC Vive system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok, was barely understandable. There is no or minimal instructions in-game. You need to start the program by the desktop and have your keyboard in reach to change the maps. There are six maps with different themes to see. Read the manual from the store page for instructions. Mostly 3D digital art, pictures and sound, placed in virtual space. Nothing to interact with in-game. Movement mode is Flying by gaze with left joystick to provide movement direction. Chinese text with some English translation. You will be clipping through a lot of things, very little hit detection. Maybe try this free experience, only if you are into Art.
5 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 5, 2024
"HyperBody" is not a game, it's a garbage VR exclusive art exhibition from a failed and unsuccessful "artist". I assume the developer had to pay $100 to dump this on Steam because all the local art galleries took out restraining orders... as far as "art" goes this is terrible, and may induce nausea. Normally when art is bad, I might make a little joke about the incapable artist being an art school dropout, but here, no serious art school would ever accept someone this bad at art. Because this is not a game, I cannot recommend it as a game for gamers. Virtual art galleries, especially awful ones, are not games.
4 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 27, 2024

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