Once I've combined my ingredients in the pot on the stove, they combine to produce a tin of what looks a little like Campbell's tomato soup. Owlchemy know this, too - they're the only VR developers I speak to at GDC who aren't also planning to release the game for regular monitors. What would have felt mundane in a first-person game with mouse and keyboard controls takes on a strange pleasure in VR with motion controllers, albeit one likely dependent upon the novelty of interacting in an unusual way. All these kind of kinetic actions that weren't possible before we had input," says Schwartz. "It’s amazing to grab stuff, it’s amazing to just put things on top of each other - stack, move, throw. I reach inside and take what I need, toss it in the pot, then pick up and turn the sriracha bottle upside down to pour it inside.Īs simple as they sound, these mere actions - simple tasks of picking, dropping, reaching - are core the pleasure of Job Simulator. I look for a second mushroom and as I glance towards the fridge, it opens automatically.
I pick up a mushroom and plop it in the pot, then grab two tomato halves at the same time and drop those in. The demo they're letting people play at GDC is the chef simulation, so job-bot welcomes me and shows me a recipe on screen for tomato soup - two mushrooms, two tomatoes, and a lot of sriracha hot sauce.
It's basically this pile of VHS tapes in the loading scene, and you can put the tape in - say, "gourmet chef" or "chemist" or "bartender" - and you put it in the mouth of the job-bot and then you get teleported into this world." "So in order to make sure our children understand what all of the old usurped professions are, there's this simulation.
"The high level of Job Simulator is, in 2050 robots have taken most of our jobs," explains Alex Schwartz, the founder of developer Owlchemy Labs. Laid out in front of me is a kitchen surface with a chopping board, a rolling pin, a stove, some ingredients, and behind it all, a robot. Of the game-like experiences I've had with the device, it was the best - better even than Valve's own Portal 2 vignette. The Vive overwhelmed me when I first tried it at GDC, but after playing through Valve's hand-picked demos for a general sense of the VR headset, I went back for a second time to play more of Job Simulator.
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