MixRift, a casual mixed reality (MR) game developer, announced the official early access launch of Battle Orb, a competitive strategy game which invites players to challenge each other and transform their physical surroundings into dynamic battlefields.
Available now for Meta Quest platforms, Battle Orb represents the next evolution in family-friendly mutliplayer MR gaming. In this case, players can play together in a group with each one of them wearing a Meta Quest VR headset.
A first PvP game for MixRift, Battle Orb allows players to step into immersive arenas where physical and digital worlds collide. Skill meets chaos in this fast-paced multiplayer strategy game, which challenges players to aim, shoot, and dominate with speed and precision across customized battlefields, combining tactical thinking with physics-based gameplay.
“We’re just building the best experience we can build, and we’re launching the game right now,” Voicu said. “It’s basically an arena battle game where you have armies of four characters, four heroes, and you can play one versus one, one versus one versus one for three players or four players against each other.”
It’s kind of like a pool game or a slingshot Angry Birds mechanic.
“And basically it becomes like this crazy, chaos-driven experience where it’s actually quite easy to start playing once you understand that you pull something back and you release and things happen,” Voicu said.
MixRift recently raised $1.6 million in funding, and it previously launched Crit Attack, a VR game for younger players. While it was fast action, Voicu figured out it wasn’t quite violent enough for some players. MixRift made this game in six months, and it’s hoping to launch games rapidly to see what becomes a hit with fans, he said.
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