The skills required for developing an amazing VR game

Posted by bigbeestudios on March 17th, 2021

Virtual reality has taken the world of gaming by storm and is becoming a force to be reckoned with as time passes as it takes new strides to provide the gamers a better and more immersive experience. It is estimated that the V.R gaming market size has grown up to be worth around 22.9 billion dollars by the end of the year 2020. Virtual reality makes the gamers fully immersed in the computer-generated environment. If your motive is to create a VR game, whether a serious game or for educational learning. There are a few basic skills that you must learn to create a virtual reality game using a game engine. Two of the most famous game engines used for Virtual reality game development are Unity and Unreal engine. Let us focus on the Unity game engine in this article. 

Virtual reality game developers prefer Unity mostly for developing games. Unity provides the game developers with an extensive library. The library boasts of some great tutorials, which help you learn. It also has the availability of some user-generated tutorials. It is more than sufficient to create even the most complex and visually stunning serious games. 

Several skills are described below that must be learned to create a good VR game

You must be familiar with the VR game engine software 

Creating a game with Unity is not like Photoshop, where you just have to open an image, apply filters and crop the image. It is complex and you must learn to manage the following-

  • The virtual environment in which the game will take place.

  • The direction and light source. 

  • The direction and camera angles. 

  • Applying the law of physics to your word. 

  • The characters and avatars.

  • Locomotion

  • Interaction with the objects. 

  • Communication

  • Menus

  • Scoring

  • Levels 

  • Layers

  • Textures

  • Colors

  • Sound effects

  • Music

  • Timeline

  • The code editor

  • Organizing all your assets.


You must be proficient in some object-oriented programming language

The game engines use an object-oriented programming language to create the games whether you have personally written any of the code or not. Thousands of different objects are manipulated and organized easily as needed by the game engine due to the object-oriented programming language. These objects have the ability to interact with each other. For example, in a game, the hand can throw a rock and the rock can break a glass. Although some of the game developers use javascript instead of C# for game development on Unity, it should be noted that you must prefer using C#, since C# possess the abilities and features in unity that other languages do not. 

You should have the ability to make or buy the game assets.  

There are a lot of assets required to be put in the game. The assets include environments, props, characters/avatars, music, sound effects, textures, Etc, that would be used in the game. Designing your own assets would consume a lot of time and skill, you can hire or partner with some good and talented VR designers. Unity asset store allows you to purchase all the assets you would require. 

You must have expertise in VR game development

Since the V.R sector is a relatively new one, you can be creative and experimental with your approach towards game development. You can and should use as many elements in the game as you can. Experimentation in the field of Virtual reality is always encouraged. You have the power to create a whole universe of the virtual reality game, get as much creative you can. 

Even if you buy all the assets of the game, you would still need a lot of expertise in using the assets and optimizing them to the full potential. You must hire coders and developers that include the following skills but are not limited to only these-

  • Game design and gameplay.

  • Level design 

  • Animation

  • Sound effect and music

In addition to these skills experts in the following fields are also required-

  • Voice acting

  • Storytelling

  • 3D art 

  • Sales and marketing


Conclusion

India has become a huge market for virtual reality game development, there is a huge pool of skilled and talented Unity Game Developers India and most of the companies are looking forward to working with them. 

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