Video Gaming – Kevin Gulling http://www.kevingulling.com Game Development, VR, and more Fri, 29 Dec 2017 02:44:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.13 81085834 Top Vive Games for Under $10 on Steam – 2018 Guide https://kevingulling.com/2017/12/top-10-vive-games-for-under-10-on-steam-2018/ https://kevingulling.com/2017/12/top-10-vive-games-for-under-10-on-steam-2018/#comments Fri, 29 Dec 2017 04:58:54 +0000 https://kevingulling.com/?p=1773 Top Paid Vive Games for Under $10 Happy New Year Everyone! A lot of you probably just got your new VR device over the holidays! To help guide you in your game selection for the new year I’ve compiled a list of the top paid games and apps available on Steam for under $10. For […]

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Top Paid Vive Games for Under $10

Happy New Year Everyone! A lot of you probably just got your new VR device over the holidays! To help guide you in your game selection for the new year I’ve compiled a list of the top paid games and apps available on Steam for under $10. For around the price of one game, you can fill your VR library with these affordable little gems! After you have tried out some of the free content on Steam (there are over 500 free VR titles in the Steam store now!), I recommend this list to everyone!

10. Deadlock: 5/10

deadlock
Description: Deadlock is a wave shooter with a cool “neon alien” atmosphere. Unfortunately the game has been in early access for nearly 2 years now, and there is still not much to the game. Worth purchasing if you can find it on sale!
Smoothness: Somewhat smooth
Vive Controllers: Yes
Steam Trading Cards: No
Price: $5.99 – Buy on sale

9. A Fear of Heights and Other Things: 5/10

a fear of heights
Description: This is a fun little app to demo VR. It made the list for the rope swing mini game which was a blast!
Smoothness: Very smooth
Vive Controllers: Yes
Steam Trading Cards: Yes
Price: $0.99 – Acceptable Price

8. Far Space: 6/10

far space vr
Description:Far space is a space adventure story that lasts about 30 minutes.
Smoothness: Very smooth
Vive Controllers: No
Steam Trading Cards: Yes
Price: $1.99 – Acceptable Price

7. Mind Unleashed: 6/10

mind unleashed
Description: Mind Unleashed is a wave based shooter.
Smoothness: Somewhat smooth
Vive Controllers: No
Steam Trading Cards: Yes
Price: $2.99 – Buy on sale

6. Drone Hunter VR: 6/10

drone hunter vr
Description: Drone Hunter VR is a wave based shooter similar to Deadlock, only the graphics and gameplay has a bit more going for it! On occasion you can find this for $0.99 in the Steam store!
Smoothness: Very smooth
Vive Controllers: Yes
Steam Trading Cards: No
Price: $9.99 – Buy on sale

5. Deep Blue: 6/10

deep blue VR
Description: Deep Blue is reminiscent of Marble Madness.
Smoothness: Somewhat smooth
Vive Controllers: No
Steam Trading Cards: Yes
Price: $2.99 – Great price

4. Neon Arena: 6/10

neon arena
Description: Neon Arena is a top down shooter with two levels and many powerups!
Smoothness: Very smooth
Vive Controllers: No
Steam Trading Cards: Yes
Price: $4.99 – Buy on sale

3. CYCOM: Cybernet Combat: 6/10

cycom
Description: Fun first person shooter game played on a grid with multiple powerups. Currently in “early access”.
Smoothness: Very smooth
Vive Controllers: Yes
Steam Trading Cards: No
Price: $4.99 – Great price

2. Emily Wants to Play: 7/10

emily wants to play
Description: First person horror game.
Smoothness: Very smooth
Vive Controllers: Yes
Steam Trading Cards: No
Price: $4.99 – Acceptable price

2. Sort ‘Em: 7/10

sort em vr
Description: Job simulator style game. In early access, so hopefully some improvements to come!
Smoothness: Very smooth
Vive Controllers: Yes
Steam Trading Cards: No
Price: $2.99 – Acceptable price

1. Blastercell: 8/10

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Description: Blastercell is a 2D style game in VR. Blastercell makes the top of the list because it is cheap, runs smoothly, utilizes Vive controllers, you can get hours of entertainment out of it, bonus Steam trading cards, and it occasionally goes on sale for as low as $0.49! You can literally sell the trading cards and recoup most of the purchase price! It’s a win/win/win situation!
Smoothness: Very smooth
Vive Controllers: Yes
Steam Trading Cards: Yes
Price: $0.99 – Great Price

blastercell leaderboard

I’m currently 7th on the leaderboard for all time high scores!

Honorable Mentions

Going Up: 5/10

going up vr

Description: Going up is another wave based game, but rather than shooting, you use a set of futuristic swords to fend off the waves. Great game if you have been aching to wield some light sabers!
Smoothness: Somewhat smooth
Vive Controllers: Yes
Steam Trading Cards: No
Price: $4.99 – Buy on sale

Zero-G VR: 5/10


Description: A unique space game where the object is to jettison yourself into space in wearing a space suit from one space module to another.
Smoothness: Very smooth
Vive Controllers: Yes
Steam Trading Cards: No
Price: $4.99 – Buy on sale

Endless Labyrinth: 5/10

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Description: Endless Labyrinth is all that it claims to be. Walk around an endless stone labyrinth and collect gems. It had potential, it’s too bad the developer didn’t continue development. A great one for the kids or VR beginners though if you can catch it on sale!
Smoothness: Very smooth
Vive Controllers: Yes
Steam Trading Cards: No
Price: $0.99 – Buy on sale

Coaster of Carnage VR

And I will shamelessly plug my own game in this article, although I’ll refrain from putting on the top 10 list XD

coaster of carnage vr
http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/737260/
Description: Horror themed rollercoaster ride, great for Halloween, great for scaring friends and family!
Smoothness: Somewhat smooth
Vive Controllers: Yes
Steam Trading Cards: Not yet!
Price: $0.99

Pro Tip: Wait for these titles to go on sale and you’ll likely pick any one of them up for less than $5! (some of them under a buck!)

Developers: Would you like me to try out your VR game? Contact me!

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360 Music Video for “710 Dabs” Set on the Moon of 1000 AE’s Sol II https://kevingulling.com/2017/11/360-music-video-710-dabs-set-moon-1000-aes-sol-ii/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:17:48 +0000 https://kevingulling.com/?p=1754 360 Music Video In this 3 minute music video you can take a 360 degree look at the moon of Sol II: Lua from the title currently in development, 1000 AE for the Vive. How to watch This can be viewed from PC or mobile phone, or with the proper hardware/software it can also be […]

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360 Music Video

In this 3 minute music video you can take a 360 degree look at the moon of Sol II: Lua from the title currently in development, 1000 AE for the Vive.

How to watch

This can be viewed from PC or mobile phone, or with the proper hardware/software it can also be viewed from a VR device.

PC – simply play the video as you would a normal YouTube video. To look around, using your mouse you can click and drag anywhere on the video to rotate the current view.

Mobile Device – Make sure you have an updated YouTube app. Using a mobile device, you can look around just by aligning your phone/tablet in the direction you want to look.

I’ll be making more of these in the future, make sure to like and subscribe to help support development!

Click here to watch more 360 videos on YouTube

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Coaster of Carnage VR – New Trailers, Official Release Date https://kevingulling.com/2017/10/coaster-carnage-vr-new-trailers-official-release-date/ https://kevingulling.com/2017/10/coaster-carnage-vr-new-trailers-official-release-date/#comments Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:45:11 +0000 https://kevingulling.com/?p=1742 Happy Halloween! 🎃 With the Steam release pending, I’ve decided to share the new trailer for Coaster of Carnage VR that will appear on the Steam store here as a Halloween surprise. Many of you may have been following the development since the announcement last year (2016), and may know that just recently the title […]

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Happy Halloween! 🎃

With the Steam release pending, I’ve decided to share the new trailer for Coaster of Carnage VR that will appear on the Steam store here as a Halloween surprise. Many of you may have been following the development since the announcement last year (2016), and may know that just recently the title was Greenlit on Steam by our fans! So first of all, a big thanks to all who visited the greenlight page and chose to upvote Coaster of Carnage VR! We have been working hard at ARVRCADE to bring you an “Early Access” version of the game for Halloween, unfortunately, it will likely premiere on Steam on or around the first week of Nov. But as a bonus for all those that purchase during early access, we are planning on giving it a Christmas twist that will be accessible in December! I’ll leave a link here to it when the store page is finally online! [http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/737260/?beta=0]

If you aren’t familiar in Coaster of Carnage VR, players ride an abandoned roller coaster in the middle of a spooky, horror-filled carnival. Here’s the newest trailer that highlights Vive use, where rather than a headlamp, the Vive controller is utilized as a flashlight!

The upcoming release will be an “Early Access” version which is a status available in the Steam store used to release an incomplete, but fully functional game version. So not only will it be great for some scares throughout the year, but coming October of 2018 when the game is scheduled for official release, there will be many new scares, features, and improvements! Those with early access will be able to offer ideas for the next scares, and those with ideas that we use will be given a spot in the credits, also the Christmas version that will be available in December, so make sure you check it out!

PS thanks to everyone who came out Friday night for the premiere party! Here’s some shots of your reactions:

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Agar.io Strategy Guide, Hints, Tips, Legal Cheats, Hacks https://kevingulling.com/2017/07/agar-io-strategy-guide-hints-tips-legal-cheats-hacks/ Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:28:59 +0000 https://kevingulling.com/?p=1652 Agar.io Strategy, Hints, Tips, Cheats and Hacks! Agar.io is another great online massively multiplayer browser game/app utilizing socket.io. You start out on a large square grid as a cell around 38-45 mass (It seems that sometimes you spawn on top of mass particles, so you can get a little bonus right from the start if […]

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Agar.io Strategy, Hints, Tips, Cheats and Hacks!

Agar.io is another great online massively multiplayer browser game/app utilizing socket.io. You start out on a large square grid as a cell around 38-45 mass (It seems that sometimes you spawn on top of mass particles, so you can get a little bonus right from the start if you are lucky). There are little hexagonal particles of mass that spawn randomly on the map, and you gain mass by gobbling up these small bits of mass. It’s sort of like Pacman meets Odell lake. You can also gain mass by eating smaller cells, so when you start the game you are on the very bottom of the food chain!

Agar.io Beginners Guide

Objective – In FFA the object is to gain mass until you reach the leaderboard to show off your massiveness! There are also daily missions which give you coins and “DNA” if completed. In Rush mode the object is to be the largest cell when the timer expires.

Viruses – Viruses are the green spiked circles, and spawn at random around the map. A virus can be a safe haven for a cell of smaller mass. For cells larger than the virus, running into a virus will cause the cell to split up into 16 different pieces. This can be a good if you are able to keep all your cells because when you are in 16 parts you can eat viruses, but more commonly this can be your downfall. When nearby cells spot a cell being split by a virus, a frenzy of sorts begins. Cells from all over the map will risk there little cell lives just to try and get a piece of you, often times at their own peril.

Agar.io

Cell bursting on virus – Agar.io

Mass Ejection – Press ‘W’ on the keyboard to eject mass in the direction you are traveling. There are many reasons to eject mass, but most commonly it is used to transfer mass from one cell to another. If you see two opposing cells doing “feeding” each other in FFA, watch out, this is most likely a team! (Teams dominate FFA, go figure).

Split Mass – Press ‘Space’ on your keyboard to split your cell in half, ejecting one half in the direction you are traveling. The most common reason one would opt to split in half is to “eat” another cell. Make sure you are more than twice the mass of the cell you are trying to eat, or it will fail and you will either not be able to eat the cell you targeted, or if you overestimated your mass by too much, the cell you target can even eat you! Another common use for this function is to avoid being eaten entirely! When being hunted by larger cells a well timed split will insure that only half of you is eaten, and you will live to see another day! If your cell is smaller than 38 mass, you will not be able to split).

Strategies – There is one strategy that works fantastic for me most of the time. This method involves spending about 5 minutes or so farming mass particles and avoiding all larger cells, and maintaining a friendly relationship with cells in your size range (chasing a slightly smaller cell is usually fruitless, and will likely get you both killed!). Also it’s wise to keep in mind that when you are a small cell, you are a huge target! Trust no one! In the video below I’ll show you how to use this strategy to make it onto the leaderboard in about 10 minutes.

Of course one of the most popular strategies is the social game in Agar.io. Feed the right cell and you might have made a friend for life (of your cell)! But watch out, there are those who will eat you even if you do feed them. A good sign that a cell is willing to cooperate is if they eject some mass back at you in exchange. Also beware of traders though! About 50% of the cells that try to make friends, do so only to eat cannibalize their friends! This is a strategy that I don’t really recommend, as it may be a quick boost, but generally you will make an enemy for life by doing so, and getting revenge is one of the sweetest things to do in Agar.io!

Agar.io - first place

With a good teammate it’s easy to dominate the map!

Hacks/Cheats – It’s likely that some bad hacks exist for this game, but I’m not going to be covering any hacks of that sort. There are “legal” hacks that I will focus on instead. The most common being using your name field to communicate to other cells with language or symbols. A popular use of this is for teams to use a “tag” on the beginning of their username, so that they can easily be identified as a teammate no matter what skin the cell is using. For example a couple popular groups are “MK” and “FBI”, and when they play they generally have a large team working together to easily dominate the entire map for hours on end! Another popular use is to mention teams in your name. Usually a cell with the name “team” is willing to cooperate, but still watch out for the predators, not every cell named team is actually friendly!

Another simple hack is to log on every hour and collect 20 free coins. When you want to play, if you have a couple hundred coins you can pick up a nice boost that lasts for an hour, which can be very helpful!

Now to the good stuff! If you want a real edge over the competition, you might decide that using ‘W’ and ‘Space’ are not the easiest keys to use. Sometimes you really have to mash that ‘W’, and sometimes you have to be very precise! Using a programmable input emulator we can change those keys to whatever keys we like! I am using GlovePIE, an old but still working PIE utility. FreePie is another one. There are others out there, let us know in the comments if you know of any other good PIE’s! The script I like to use is making the left mouse button work as ‘W’ in addition to ‘W’. If you need to eject some mass quickly, you can mash both the ‘W’ key and the ‘LMB’ and eject an incredible amount of mass very quickly! Download the Agar.io GlovePIE script.

Pro Tips – Now that you know the basics, here are a few pro tips to remember:

  • The longer you hold down Space to split your cell, the further you will eject half your mass. This is helpful for reaching cells that are far off.
  • You probably shouldn’t trust anyone unless you know them personally. Agar.io players are treacherous!
  • If a cell that is slightly larger than you has almost encapsulated you, don’t split, don’t eject mass, just stay on course and try to direct your cell into the particles in your path. Your opponent will be unable to collect any particles while following you, so after collecting enough particles, you will grow bigger than the cell chasing you. My my, how the tables have turned! This is also generally a sign that you are up against a newb, most vets know that the smaller cell is faster!
  • When you are small, sometimes you can find a giant cell and use it as parasitic host of sorts. Most large cells won’t risk trying to come too near to a giant cell so it can be a safe haven at times.

If you like this guide please subscribe to my blog! See you on Agar.io!

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Rust Skin “Slave Tank Top” T-Shirt Design – Gear for your Slaves https://kevingulling.com/2017/06/rust-skin-slave-tank-top-t-shirt-design-gear-for-your-slaves/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:26:30 +0000 https://kevingulling.com/?p=1623 Slave Tank Top Rust Skin A tank top for your hard working slaves. Now if your slaves wander too far, your neighbor will know to blow their head off and send ’em on back home. Support this skin by visiting Steam and voting “Yes” and adding it to your favorites it: “Slaves”, also known as […]

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Slave Tank Top Rust Skin

A tank top for your hard working slaves. Now if your slaves wander too far, your neighbor will know to blow their head off and send ’em on back home.
Rust Skin

slave tank top

slave tank icon

Support this skin by visiting Steam and voting “Yes” and adding it to your favorites it:

Get it on Steam!

“Slaves”, also known as “Workers” in Rust are players that do utilitarian work, such as gathering wood and stone. Using slaves in Rust enables clans to build large bases fast. The concept is simple really, generally it involves finding some players with little experience who are interested in joining up with your team/clan, or just trying to get a decent start in the game without getting killed so easily. Depending on who you slave for you can generally rank up to a normal clan member eventually after hours of hard slaving!

If you play Rust and are interested in working as a slave to help build some of Rusts largest and most badass monuments and buildings, add me on Steam and I’ll give you the details, such as our current server and such. If you are a dedicated and hard worker we will even pay you in skins (which are worth actual money)!

It’s not always bad to be a slave in Rust, but watch this hilarious video by faceless as they wrangle some fresh slaves for trade on the market XD

Some tips for fellow slave masters:
-Don’t ever let your slaves into the treasury until after so many hours, about 10% of the volunteer slaves are actually trolls looking to reck your base! (true fact)
-Don’t give your slaves guns, it makes it too easy for them to kill you and take yours, slaves should be equipped with hatchets and pick axes and if you are a kind slave master, a “Slave Tank Top”.
-Don’t kill your slaves and laugh at them. While this may be entertaining to you, I find that usually your slaves will get bored of this behavior and eventually move on.

If you have any ideas for future skins/mods, hit me up on Steam, or by email, or leave a comment below!

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Arduino + SPO2 Pulse Oximeter + Unity3D – Teardown Tuesday https://kevingulling.com/2017/01/arduino-spo2-pulse-oximeter-unity3d/ https://kevingulling.com/2017/01/arduino-spo2-pulse-oximeter-unity3d/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2017 23:30:15 +0000 https://kevingulling.com/?p=1460 Arduino + SPO2 Pulse Oximeter + Unity3D After a recent hospital visit, I was given a disposable spo2 sensor to monitor my oxygen saturation and pulse which is standard practice these days. Rather than let the nurse toss my sensor afterwards, I decided to take it home and tinker with it. It would be pretty […]

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Arduino + SPO2 Pulse Oximeter + Unity3D

After a recent hospital visit, I was given a disposable spo2 sensor to monitor my oxygen saturation and pulse which is standard practice these days. Rather than let the nurse toss my sensor afterwards, I decided to take it home and tinker with it. It would be pretty neat to have my own spo2 monitor at home, never know when it could come in handy! I am especially interested in the applications that it can be applied to in the gaming world, such as fitness gaming, so I created a Unity asset that can handle the readings and graph the results, much like an ECG.

diy pulse oximeter

A couple of you have asked for more details about the project so here’s everything I have so far (work in progress).

I couldn’t find much on the exact sensors that Masimo uses in their resposable SP02 sensors, so disclaimer: I’m just sort of winging it here, there is definitely more info needed to perfect this project… That being said, without wasting any more time, here is the project:



Project materials:
-Arduino Uno R3
-Masimo Universal Resposable SPO2 Pulse Oximeter
-Breadboard
-10k resistor
-220 resistor
-330 resistor

SPO2 sketch:


The circuit:

breadboard schematic

This handy tool I made in Unity reads the data we send to the serial com and graphs it for us in a manner that emulates an ECG.

spo2 grapher unity3d

Download Unity3D SPO2 grapher for Windows

You’ll notice that I commented out a few lines in the sketch. Enable these lines if you would rather plot your graph using an online tool such as FooPlot rather than the realtime Unity3d made monitor.

If you have any information to contribute for the advancement of this project, leave a comment or contact me and I’ll be sure to keep this article up-to-date with new findings! If you have any questions go ahead and leave those in the comments as well and I’ll do my best to answer any.

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Carnival Coaster of Carnage VR on Steam Greenlight https://kevingulling.com/2016/10/carnival-coaster-of-carnage-vr-on-steam-greenlight/ Sun, 02 Oct 2016 10:08:06 +0000 https://kevingulling.com/?p=1146 Coaster of Carnage now on Steam Greenlight This Halloween take a true thrill ride on a deserted roller coaster through a spooky carnival! Coaster of Carnage is a short virtual reality roller coaster ride with a Halloween horror theme. Guts and gore, clowns and cadavers, blood and bones, and a cohort of Satans rejects! What […]

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Coaster of Carnage now on Steam Greenlight

This Halloween take a true thrill ride on a deserted roller coaster through a spooky carnival! Coaster of Carnage is a short virtual reality roller coaster ride with a Halloween horror theme. Guts and gore, clowns and cadavers, blood and bones, and a cohort of Satans rejects! What could be more fun? Not intended for the faint of heart.



If you want to help Coaster of Carnage get the Greenlight from Steam, please check it out here and give it a like, a share, or a comment!


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Coaster of Carnage will be available for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and a mobile version for GearVR, and Google Cardboard.

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Special thanks to the following for donating assets to the project:
Timbre, TheSubber13, tweedledee3, sironboy, ivolipa, Jaylew1987, dheming, thefaceless and djol! Without you guys donating to the community, indie games like this wouldn’t be possible! Thanks again!

Edit: Release has been pushed back to 2017 so that we can launch the Cardboard, GearVR, Rift and Vive version all at the same time! Make sure you give us a thumbs up on the Greenlight submission so that Valve picks it up in time this time around 😉

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Live Events in Virtual Reality!

We all knew it was coming, but how well do these events fare?

Screen capture of Reggie Watts, live on Altspace

Screen capture of Reggie Watts, live on Altspace

Last night Reggie Watts performed a 1 hour standup live on Altspace for hundreds of viewers utilizing a new addition to Altspace that they are calling “Front Row”. Now a lot of you know that I was creating a live social platform in VR at the same time as Altspace (Multiplayer VR) but Altspace has taken my idea to a new level and I commend them for the work they’ve done, they are doing a fantastic job!

Altspace, for everyone!

Altspace can be ran on the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, and even GearVR and Cardboard! For this reason Altspace is currently the best option for a social experience in VR, because of the broad spectrum of hmd’s supported, which includes over 90% of VR users. One of the reasons I am discontinuing support for Multiplayer VR (besides the fact that it only runs with legacy pre 0.6 sdk) is that there were not enough Oculus Rift users alone to populate the rooms enough to be entertaining.

Some of you who haven’t been to a live event in VR, or have yet to use Altspace may be wondering how such an thing works? in my opinion it is much like going to an event in reality. At the Reggie Watts event there were people in the back of the room, away from the stage, having conversations. People up front nearest the monitors (the audio source for the live audio feed) bobbing their heads and dancing to the music, and of course just people watching the entertainment!

Connect with me on Altspace: KevinGulling.com

Also big thanks @reggiewatts for being one of the first celebs with some vision of the future! It was great meeting you, funny as hell! Come back to VR soon!

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Top 10 Free SteamVR Apps https://kevingulling.com/2016/07/10-free-steamvr-apps/ Sun, 31 Jul 2016 20:35:57 +0000 https://kevingulling.com/?p=1088 10 Free SteamVR Apps After shelling out close to a thousand dollars on the Vive, you might find yourself a little light on funds for new games. Fortunately there are quite a few titles available for free. As of July 2016, here are some of my favorite free Steam VR apps: 1. The Lab Valve’s […]

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10 Free SteamVR Apps

After shelling out close to a thousand dollars on the Vive, you might find yourself a little light on funds for new games. Fortunately there are quite a few titles available for free. As of July 2016, here are some of my favorite free Steam VR apps:

1. The Lab

Valve’s “the Lab” is a compilation of mini-games.

Download the Lab

2. NightCafe

Originally released for Oculus Rift in 2015, NightCafe is now available on SteamVR!



Download NightCafe

3. The Cubicle

I almost didn’t download this. That would have been a mistake!

Download the Cubicle

4. Waltz of the Wizard

Tons of magic to play with!
Download Waltz of the Wizard

5. VR Funhouse

Want to play carnival games without paying two bucks a throw? Nvidia shows off their debut VR experience.

Download VR Funhouse

6. Abe VR

Another Oculus Rift adaptation for the Vive.

Download Abe VR

7. The Foo Show

If you are a fan of Will Smith, you have to check out the Foo show featuring Will Smith.

Download The Foo Show

8. The Rose and I

This is a VR short film.

Download The Rose and I

9. Broomball

Download Broomball

10. Ikea VR Experience

Download Ikea VR Experience

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Diep.io Strategies, Walkthrough and Builds https://kevingulling.com/2016/06/diep-io-strategy-walkthrough-and-builds/ Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:05:04 +0000 https://kevingulling.com/?p=1042 Diep.io Strategies, Walkthrough and Builds If you haven’t heard of Diep.io then you have been missing out. Never has controlling a small circle that shoots small circles been so entertaining! Diep.io is a multiplayer browser game that requires no downloads or long signups. Simply enter your name and start playing! Diep.io Walkthrough The game is […]

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Diep.io Strategies, Walkthrough and Builds

If you haven’t heard of Diep.io then you have been missing out. Never has controlling a small circle that shoots small circles been so entertaining!
Diep.io is a multiplayer browser game that requires no downloads or long signups. Simply enter your name and start playing!

Diep.io Walkthrough

The game is fairly simple, you enter your name and press enter to start. Use the arrow keys to move and the mouse to aim. Click the LMB to fire your cannon.

You start out as a small tank

You start out as a small tank


The objective of the game is to get points and there are 3 ways to earn them.

  1. Destroy the yellow blocks, red triangles and blue octagons.
  2. Destroy another player
  3. Destroy game generated projectiles (pink triangles)

You can destroy things either by colliding with them or shooting them with your cannon. Be careful though, other players will shoot back and collisions also do damage to you!

When you earn points you increase your XP, when your XP reaches a certain level you level up. Leveling up can grant you stat increases. Pay attention to the bottom right of your screen, the stats menu will popup when you have enough XP to level one up. There are 8 stats that you can increase: Health Regen, Max Health, Body Damage, Bullet Speed, Bullet Penetration, Bullet Damage, Reload, and Movement Speed.

There are two basic modes. FFA and Team Deathmatch. FFA is a free for all, no teams (even though some people do team up, Pro Tip: you might see people spinning around and not firing at you, they are indicating that they want to partner with you), while Team Deathmatch is a two team battle, Red vs Blue.

Diep.io Strategies

There are two main strategies in Diep.io

  1. Fight
    • Aggro (Projectile)
    • Speed (Melee)
    • Precision (Projectile)
    • Hybrid (Combo of the above)
  2. Flight
    • Aggro (Projectile)
    • Speed (Melee)
    • Precision (Projectile)
    • Hybrid (Combo of the above)

It’s important to decide early on in your build which of these 2 major strategies you will adopt. Fight or Flight!

Diep.io Builds

I’m not going to go over the 10’s of popular builds, I’m just going to go over a few that I came up with*. It’s important to note that the build orders are not as important as some people say. Basically if you are going for “Fight” you will want to start out building Max Health and/or Health Regen. For “Flight” strategies you will want to start out leveling up your Movement Speed.

Fight

Octotank

Fight/Aggro – The OctoArmor is a great offensive weapon


The OctoArmor can match almost any build 1v1, but be careful, this build is susceptible to a double team! The other great thing about this is the ease of play. Simply fire and rotate slowly, and go for the middle! You can climb the top 10 pretty fast, but as soon as people get wind that there is a king octotank, they will team up to usurp you so it’s usually short lived. To make a build that is less powerful in 1v1 battles, but also less susceptible to double teams, take one away from Bullet Penetration and add one to movement speed.

Bomber

Fight/Speed – The “Bomber” is a high speed melee attacker


I call this the bomber because it is similar to a Kamikaze fighter. The tactic here is simple, use your weapons as propulsion and crash into the opponent to deal damage. I’ve also had success taking a point away from the reload and adding it to speed (Just hit 110k with it then had to answer the phone 😛 Then some punk killed my idol tank).
diepio high score

Flight

Diep.io Build Image

Flight/Speed – “The Squid” is great for quick getaways

Squid Build 2

Machine Gun Squid Build

I call this build “the Squid” because it sort of reminds me of a squid “inking” and fleeing a predator. The mechanics of this build are simple enough. Use tanks that have recoil like the Destroyer or the Machine Gun and use the recoil to help propel you backwards at a faster speed.

Diep.io Ninja

Flight/Hybrid

This build is under-powered in my opinion, and even though I have reached first place with it, it was short lived and it took me about 10 lives to do it.

I’m not going to rate any of these builds because the game is constantly being updated and important values are being modified to try and keep the game balanced and avoid a “Broken Build” scenario. But I think it’s safe to say that these builds will continue to stay competitive for some time. I think we can expect the “Bomber” build to be downgraded in the future, I find it pretty powerful in both deathmatch and ffa.

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*I’m sure there are many similar builds!

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