Kottabos VR
Aiden Gohlke · 2024 · Immersive Sim, Education, VR, Historical, Mythology
PC
9 user reviews67% · 9
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About Kottabos VR
This is a VR trip into the ancient world – playing Kottabos, the all-time favorite Greek party game. All the items you see around you are 3D reconstructions of actual ancient furniture, pottery, and Kottabos targets from museums. This historical game is harder than it looks!
In ancient Greece Kottabos was a popular party game in which players threw the dregs from the bottom of their cup at targets. These included a disk on the top of a pole and cups floating in a bowl of water. They competed for adoration, praise, and respect of the other party-goers.
Prove your skill by throwing the dregs of wine from your cup at the metal disk on the pole in front of you, or fling your drops at the little cups floating in a bowl. If the disk or the cups go down, your luck goes up! A round of applause, an extra dessert, or the favor of Aphrodite herself will come to the winners.
Game Features:
Project Team:
In ancient Greece Kottabos was a popular party game in which players threw the dregs from the bottom of their cup at targets. These included a disk on the top of a pole and cups floating in a bowl of water. They competed for adoration, praise, and respect of the other party-goers.
Prove your skill by throwing the dregs of wine from your cup at the metal disk on the pole in front of you, or fling your drops at the little cups floating in a bowl. If the disk or the cups go down, your luck goes up! A round of applause, an extra dessert, or the favor of Aphrodite herself will come to the winners.
Game Features:
- Physics-driven gameplay in VR.
- Controller momentum and trigger button throws the dregs.
- Aim at the different targets, and get higher scores based on strength of hit and placement on the target.
- Three different levels of gameplay.
- Tutorial level.
- Track your high scores.
- Educational! Learn about Kottabos, the real Greek party game.
- Free! Use for classes.
Project Team:
- Aiden Gohlke – Lead Game Design and Programmer, Kennesaw State University
- Donovan Lott – Lead Game Design and Programmer, Kennesaw State University
- Jake Lewis – Student Game Design and Programmer, Kennesaw State University (2022)
- Dr. Sandra Blakely – Project Director, Emory University, Department of Classics
- Dr. Joanna C. Mundy – Project Manager, Digital Projects Specialist, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
- Dr. Joy Li – Game Development Collaborator, Kennesaw State University, Assistant Professor of Computer Game Design and Development
- Craig Brasco – Visual Interface Collaborator and Illustrator, Kennesaw State University, Assistant Professor of Art | Graphic Communications
- Hakeem Thomas – Student Game Design and Programmer, Kennesaw State University (2021)
What Steam players say
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Finally, someone has pioneered the Kottabos type game!2 found this helpful
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"Kottabos VR" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from Emory University in the USA. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. This is certainly one of the worst student projects I've seen for a while, it's a simple VR tech demo where you fling globs of wine at various objects in VR. I don't know much about being a methodist, but I'm pretty sure it's something about not being the one to fling the first wine glob. Anyway, this is awful, and pointless. No employer who sees this in a prospective hire's por…1 found this helpful
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