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Behind-The-Scenes Developer Blogs

Hello! If you've been checking out The Assembly and would like to dig deeper into its origins, we have a range of developer blogs which explore how the team crafted the game. Head over to our blog for more, or click on the links below:

  • Producing The Assembly: Planning For The Unknown The brave new world of VR game development has many tales of the unexpected.
  • Designing The Assembly: Keeping It Real How we threw away the Design rulebook and embraced real world principles for VR.
  • Coding The Assembly: Let’s Get Technical We share how we overcame obstacles related to reprojection to deliver a 3D UI in VR.
  • Building The Foundations Of The Assembly We reveal the themes and inspiration behind our enigmatic VR adventure game.
  • The Assembly: Creating A Believable World When it comes to art, there are no shortcuts to building a life-like world in VR.
  • The Assembly: In VR, Hearing Is Believing We explain how audio, voice over and ambient music help bring the virtual world to life.
  • The Assembly: Designing For Virtual Reality We take you behind the scenes of the game’s development in our new video.
  • The Assembly: Art & Sound In Virtual Reality Take a further look behind the scenes of our upcoming game in our latest video.
  • The Assembly: Telling Stories In Virtual Reality We unveil the voice cast and reveal story details for our upcoming VR game.

We're releasing more behind-the-scenes blog posts for The Assembly next week which we'll update here.

UPDATE:

Check out our latest with The Assembly's Game Director Jamie Whitworth, who will take you through how we've improved The Assembly since its initial demo in 2015. Read: Improving The Assembly's Virtual Reality