Developing Virtual Reality games is very new. I cover many of the core considerations a new VR developer or designer would need to think about when building a room scale VR experience. I also share many of the tips and tricks I've learned.

Wobbly Duck Studios founder Eric Nevala (@slayemin is his profile here on GameDev.net) has been documenting the development and Steam release of Spellbound through his devblog here on GameDev.net at slayemin's Journal. We caught up with Eric to discuss his background, challenges as an indie developer in the emerging Virtual Reality market, and thoughts on the future of VR. Read on for the interview, loaded with interesting design thoughts, tips, design thoughts, and more.

Survios (the studio behind Raw Data and Creed: Rise to Glory) released the naval combat VR game, Battlewake on PlayStation VR, SteamVR, Oculus Home and Viveport. In this interview, Battlewake composer Jeremy Nathan Tisser discusses his process for scoring the game.

Is VR all it’s made up to be? And should games developers be investing in it? Packt asked three expert developers – Alan Thorn, Maciej Szczesnik, and John P. Doran, for their thoughts on whether Virtual Reality will ever become a reality.

Learn about the new partnership between GameDev.net and Beanstalk and get an introduction to Version Control systems and why they are so valuable to your coding project - alone or with a team

Once you bite the bullet and decide to use a physics engine for your game pieces, you are going to have to come to terms with making them move naturally. Getting a handle on handling forces to make things "turn" can be a psychotic episode in the making. Instead, do what the engineers do in the real world and use a PID control loop.

Abstract Using a neural network for the brain, we want a vehicle to drive by itself avoiding obsta…

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