Today we are excited to announce Waltz of the Wizard: Extended Edition! The Extended Edition expands on what made the original a great experience for showcasing the power of virtual reality to friends and family, adding new spells, activities, interactive items and secrets! There are also a number of additional improvements that help keep the experience great for new VR users and fun for more experienced ones. Head on over to the Extended Edition Store Page and scroll down for an overview of key new features.
As we work towards our next product (keep an eye out for upcoming announcements!), we want to keep maintaining Waltz of the Wizard as a fun showcase of the potential of virtual reality - but we can’t commit more resources than we already have on a free version of Waltz. The Extended Edition is a way for us to continue providing proper support and updates to Waltz of the Wizard, while helping fuel development of new products. The original version of Waltz of the Wizard will remain free in the foreseeable future, but content updates will focus on the Extended Edition.
We made Waltz at a time when experiences for roomscale and natural hand interactions were still rare, following our vision of VR’s potential to simulate reality. It features a fully interactive and diverse environment designed for natural interaction, along with intuitively controlled magic that extends reality to produce sensations we could never have in real life. We are so grateful and amazed by the reception since its release and hope for Waltz to continue spreading VR joy across the globe. Our fans and the VR community have been vital throughout the years in motivating us to take chances and keep innovating in VR content design, at times when innovation is risky.
To the many that have asked for ways to support us — thank you! Waltz of the Wizard: Extended Edition is now one way you can! Our vision for VR is content designed to present a believable illusion of a real-life experience, where presence and immersion are at the heart of design choices. The way towards those experiences is through broad and continued innovation in game design, character- and world interaction systems, production techniques and software development tools. Even now, years after we began this VR journey, we feel the industry has just barely begun tapping into the true potential of VR.
We remain committed to pushing the boundaries of what virtual reality can be and creating experiences that wouldn’t be possible in any other medium. Community support has always been absolutely vital in helping us accomplish that!
- The Aldin team