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Last week Vhite Rab­bit was at the Start-up BW Sum­mit 2019 in Stutt­gart, Ger­many. It was our first event, hence a thrilling ex­pe­ri­ence, es­pe­cial­ly for Jonathan who did his first pub­lic pitch in front of a group of 40-50 peo­ple!

In Oc­to­ber 2018, al­most three months ago, we launched the VR brows­er games plat­form Con­struct Ar­cade with ini­tial­ly four games.

Last week we moved in­to our own lit­tle of­fice space in Kon­stanz!

Vhite Rab­bit has been around since end of 2013, but has just very re­cent­ly been of­fi­cial­ly found­ed by Flo­ri­an and my­self (Jonathan), who are …

Last Month, we had the hon­or to sub­mit our new­est cre­ation We­b­VR Pong, to the Vir­tuleap Hackathon. Like the ti­tle sug­gests, it’s a We­b­VR ver­sion of the clas­sic game of the same name and an on …

There was one thing that al­ways frus­trat­ed me alot in the be­gin­ning of de­vel­op­ment with Un­re­al En­gine 4: It was the com­pile times, es­pe­cial­ly those for it­er­at­ing on your game. But it turns out that, if you stick to a cou­ple of key prin­ci­ples, they are man­age­able af­ter all.

Is­sue UE-25350 “Hot reload does not com­pile changes to au­to­ma­tion tests”, opened through a ques­tion on the an­swer­hub, has been around for quite a while now and may be one of many block­ers keep­ing you from writ­ing unit tests in Un­re­al En­gine. Which you should.

In the past year of UE4 de­vel­op­ment, I had prob­lems fig­ur­ing out how to struc­ture my game code: where to put game log­ic code to keep it read­able/main­tain­able, testable and re­us­able. This blog post sum­ma­rizes what I and my fel­low de­vel­op­ers have learnt as I fi­nal­ly feel con­fi­dent with my un­der­stand­ing.

To­day we re­lease a sec­ond ear­ly ac­cess ver­sion of Wastepa­perBin VR with now full rather than “ex­per­i­men­tal” sup­port for the HTC Vive and a cou­ple of small­er im­prove­ments for your en­joy­ment.

When we switched to Un­re­al En­gine 4, we start­ed a lit­tle “Prac­tice Project”. The game turned out to be way more fun than ex­pect­ed and we de­cid­ed to fin­ish it and re­lease it for pay-what-you-want on itch.io!

Last Mon­day we fi­nal­ly took down our Green­light page for VR Toy­room. A lot changed in the past two months: We moved to UE4, start­ed a new project, par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Spring #UE4­jam…

We par­tic­i­pat­ed in Spring #UE4­jam! While our first project took three years and is still not re­leased, here is is what we learned while mak­ing a game in 3 days:

In our last post, we men­tioned we were de­vel­op­ing a cus­tom game en­gine for our “Side Trip to Won­der­land” and “VR Toy­room”. Our Won­der­land En­gine gave us full con­trol of per­for­mance.
As a re­sult …

We just launched VR Toy­room on Steam Green­light! Head over to the VR Toy­room Green­light Page to sup­port us now!

In De­cem­ber 2015, we start­ed work­ing on a very small project with the core of our team.

“VR Toy­room”, as we call this tiny ex­pe­ri­ence, lets you be a small kid with su­per­hu­man abil­i­ties. You awake in …

Check out this awe­some web­site re­design by Falk! He even made some sub­tle changes to the lo­go. How do you like it?

Again, many thanks to Max for putting a lot of ef­fort in­to re­al­iz­ing the ideas of Falk, with …

The cave and day lev­el are both com­ing along nice­ly, aswell: near­ly all mod­els are done now, mere­ly miss­ing tex­tures. They may not con­sist of re­mote­ly as many as­sets as this na­ture heavy night lev­el, but in­stead have a much larg­er ground mod­el, which makes them a huge task to get both mod­eled and tex­tured.

Re­mem­ber that 3D mod­el of the red tree from our pre­vi­ous post? Here it is in all its glo­ry. Re­al­ly beau­ti­ful work by Falk again!

Our team cur­rent­ly has mere­ly one 3D artist ded­i­cat­ed to mod­el­ing stat­ic ob­jects and he does an amaz­ing job. Here are screen­shots tak­en from our mod­el­ing tool blender. They show mod­els for the red …

We are a small team of vol­un­tary artists, de­vel­op­ers, a de­sign­er, a sound de­sign­er, a pro­duc­er and a writ­er. We came to­geth­er to make great VR ex­pe­ri­ences, games and oth­er ap­pli …

Fi­nal­ly, Vhite Rab­bit has a web­site!

Many thanks to Sask­ia for de­sign­ing and Max for de­vel­op­ing it. As you can tell, our web­site is still un­der con­struc­tion, but don’t wor­ry Max is work­ing …