u/IWannaPie-8536

When I started VR development I decided that after releasing a game project I would close with a trailer and some kind of devlog or retro. So I invested the last two weeks creating this content. It felt like making PowerPoint slides to present to an open work huddle, one of those where you present a hobby or personal project xD

I still feel nervous about the results because it is a WIP skill and I'm iterating over what pieces are more valuable to share (right now I'm focusing on the development methodology).

I thought that maybe this kind of content would be suitable for this subreddit, after all, part of how I keep motivated to work on VR is reading and listening other's stories, taking a look at mostly amateurish/indie devlogs and postmortems to feeling accompanied by them.

I've had a hard time trying to reconcile why I do VR development. There's a part of me that keeps telling me I should strive to side-hustle and that VR isn't the right direction to advance.

But I don't feel ready to let go the dream of, at some point, being able to create and inhabit sublime experiences like those I watched in the Within VR app in the loneliest period of my life. Toying that Lenovo Mirage Solo was like having something beautiful that exists just for me, like touching the sun with my bare hands.

At the time I knew I wanted to build VR products, but I didn't think I was game-dev material. So I decided to target the long tail of the VR market, and create VR software that maybe at some point in a distant future would be played by some random and maybe this person could witness the place I had in this world.

I just published Undersea Logs, a project where I tried to explore ideas like isolation and hope. And right now it is taking the place where it belongs in the SideQuest store, as a record of my existence as a VR enthusiast.

I wouldn't call it a legacy, but I find comfort seeing it as a clear digital footprint. I find comfort connecting the dots and finding myself there. A reflection of the real me, isolated, repeating my routine every day and hoping everything will be fine at the end, that it will be worth it.

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What do you see when you connect the dots you have imprinted in the VR space, through your dev work and your very same presence?

Retro Logs of a VR Game project

Another one for the long tail