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Puppet Fever Releases
SKÖVDE, Sweden - April 19, in the year of our Lord
2018 - Coffee Stain Publishing and Coastalbyte Games
today reveal that Puppet Fever, their joyful VR puppet
playground has launched onto Early Access on Oculus Home, Steam
and Viveport for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The frantic party
game invites a puppeteer to don their VR headsets, take command
of a virtual puppet theater complete with props, and take turns
pulling each others strings in feverous local co-op.
Become the puppet master in VR and manipulate your puppets as
your audience watches on the monitor. Work together to decipher
what your puppet master presents across a multitude of
categories in what will inevitably descend into outrageous
silliness. Bring your performance to life as you choose your
favourite puppets and props and make up silly sound effects and
voices. Puppet Fever also offers epic Mixer livestream
integration for online audience participation, and lets you
share your best and worst creations on social media directly
from the game.
Puppet Fever is Coffee Stain’s first VR project and marks the
publisher’s first contribution to making VR the future of
gaming. In the Summer of 2016, Coffee Stain rallied game
developers by encouraging them to submit prototype VR games for
publishing partnership potential. To raise awareness for this
campaign Coffee Stain sponsored a series of game jams in Sweden,
which led to the discovery of Coastalbyte and Puppet Fever
during DreamHack Winter 2016.
“Puppet Fever is all about the social experience, taking that
hilarity that comes with playing Charades or board games
together with your friends, and enhancing it through VR,” said
Marcus Kellner, CEO / Game Designer of Coastalbyte Games. “For
every intense shooter out there, there’s likely also room for a
more casual, silly experience, especially for those occasions
when a more savvy user wants to introduce weary new people to
the magic of VR.”
“Whilst Puppet Fever is a super polished, beautiful VR
experience, we have so many ideas for where to take the game
from here so we decided on an Early Access launch,” said
Sebastian Badylak, VR Fanatic of Coffee Stain Publishing. “We’re
enlisting the help of the community to design the destiny of
Puppet Fever!”
No word on a physical copy version of this game on this system at this time.
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