Who, for example, would be playing the defuser? What level of difficulty should their bomb have? Here’s how they did it: when players came up to play a demo version of the game at events, Steel Crate would hand them a postcard with info about the game (Twitter, website, etc.) and, on the reverse, a little notecard for them to fill out before playing the demo. It wasn’t just marketing, either “Demoing fundamentally shaped what our game would be.”
“Demoing was going to be this ongoing process, all throughout development,” said Kane.
The core of Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes' design is simple: one player puts a VR headset on and tries to defuse a bomb, another player (or players) serves as the “expert” who talks the defuser through their task, using actual manuals for reference.ĭemos weren't just playtesting - they were key to the design process “For a small team maybe taking a gamble on VR too early, we’re really happy with this.”
“Now that we’re on a bunch of different platforms and a bunch of different stores: in total aggregate, very vague data, we’ve sold more than 200,000 copies,” said Kane. In the summer of 2015, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes made its debut on Gear VR. It got a surprising amount of views, so of course, one of the team members quit his job and they went all in on developing the game full-time. “We made our prototype at the Global Game Jam, and we also made a video of people playing it,” said Kane. What if they could make a VR game multiple people could play with one headset? At one game jam Kane and his compatriots saw a room full of people watching one person playing a game in VR, and they thought it was ridiculous. The game’s story begins at the dawn of 2014, when VR still seemed relatively novel and headsets were scarce.
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