The Runaway - new VR animated adventure coming up

[matthunter]

https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/doctor-who/63462/doctor-who-the-runaway-bbc-vr-film

BBC have announced a 12-minute short VR adventure with Jodie's Doctor asking you to help her out with a dangerous mission.

“Fans will experience the TARDIS like never before in this thrilling new interactive story," said Jo Pearce, creative director for the BBC’s digital drama team, in a statement. "As ever, the Doctor is full of warmth, wit and charm – helped by a wonderful performance from Jodie – which puts fans at the heart of the story as they immerse themselves in this beautifully animated world.”

Zillah Watson, head of the BBC VR Hub, added “Our team at the BBC VR Hub has been creating new experiences with the goal of helping to usher virtual reality into the mainstream, and Doctor Who is exactly the sort of series that can help more people to try this new technology. The show has been pushing boundaries for over 55 years, and VR enables Doctor Who to explore a whole new dimension of storytelling.”

I loved the Adventure Games series of "episodes" for the 11th Doctor and Amy (and Rory eventually) so will be interesting to see how this goes. If anything, it shows the Beeb are still willing to take chances on expansion material for the series!

I haven't got a VR rig - was looking at the Oculus Go but figured I should wait for the next model (the Quest). Alternatively, could look at PS4 VR, but getting rid of cables seems a good move with my dog and cat wandering about...

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Someone has made a vr Who intro on yt and it is very impress to watch in vr, so this shoukd be interesting.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Since it’s a film hopefully it will work on Google Cardboard, the only VR rig I have at the moment.

 

[matthunter]

Trailer has dropped over at DenOfGeek - not hugely exciting but Jodie seems to be giving it a good performance. Also some plot details!

https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/doctor-who/63462/doctor-who-the-runaway-bbc-vr-film

You’ve been in a collision. You wake inside the TARDIS. The Doctor introduces you to the person, or thing, you collided with. He’s a strange and magnificent ball of living energy called Volta. Part surly teenager, part bomb, Volta is very unstable. In fact, he’s primed to explode. Big time. Unless he can be returned to his home planet, sharpish. The problem is, a squad of galactic busybodies has other plans for Volta. Bad ones. Drawn into a frantic chase, you become the Doctor’s unlikely assistant as she races against time to get Volta home to his parents. Armed with a sonic screwdriver, it is down to you to help the Doctor as she faces the forces of evil, and teenage angst, in this animated 13-minute VR adventure from the team behind Doctor Who Series 11.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

This is out for anyone with a vr headset to try, it is very short but you get to see the inside of the tardis in somewhat more detail, moreso that console and that crystal center column and those four moving crystal column, although you can't move around, you are stuck in one place.

 

[matthunter]

A fuller VR adventure called The Edge Of Time is also in the works, DenOfGeek had some details:

This new one, The Edge Of Time, sounds like a heftier gaming experience, though, which lets you control the Sonic Screwdriver to "solve mind-bending puzzles, grapple with classic monsters and encounter new horizons in a quest to find the Doctor and defeat a powerful force that threatens to destroy the fabric of reality."

...

And here's a short story summary from the press bumf: "The Doctor has been hurled through time to the end of the universe. A virus that threatens to rip apart reality itself has been unleashed. Players can pilot the TARDIS on a journey across worlds both familiar and strange to recover a series of powerful time crystals that can repair spacetime and ultimately, save the universe itself."

As for which monsters you'll face, we've heard that gamers can expect to come into conflict with "the infamous Daleks and other known faces from the Doctor’s world plus some brand new never-before-seen monsters."

More (inc trailer) at the link: https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/games/...who-the-edge-of-time-vr-game-trailer-revealed

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^Oh fingers crossed for this, a Dr Who VR game with the weeping angels.

 

[Qonundrum]

Decades ago, all people had were "choose your own adventure books", which remained coherent for at least 70% of all possible combinations. Now there are not just video games but immersive experiences. Such experiences existed in the 1990s, only more crude - and with warning labels stating to not use the device for too long due to risk of retina damage.

She's given some surprisingly good one-liners in what's a remarkably basic trailer. The first one, the generic greeting, sounds like a second-generation recording.

Loved the music - great that Segun is contributing more to the show!

But she looks a little... young. Think 10. Every other cartoonized Doctor hasn't been youthanized and young kids still adored the presentation. But this is a bit different - what with VR rendering easier on the hardware, vertices, and all...

I think kids will adore the game, especially if they like the show. Some adults too since who doesn't want to be a companion? But it's clear the target audience is children. If adults like it, don't equate them as being like Michael Jackson just yet.

And the VR game is getting promotion for the show, which is needed. And shows the BBC isn't trying to kill its own show like it was 1989.

 

[Turtletrekker]

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[Haggis and tatties]

^^I have been enjoying Fallout 4 VR of late and thought i would try some of the mods that are avalible for that game, and what do you know, some of the Dr Who mods are really good, and just having a working tardis standing their in your F4 settlement is a lot of fun. lol

Here is the video that pointed me to the mod, and you can't really judge what it is to see it in VR, it is awesome. ha

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