PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Daniel Sproll
CEO
Realities.io Inc
A trained cognitive scientist, Daniel has been working with XR technologies for over a decade: as researcher studying human navigational behavior and as UX designer laying groundwork in early VR interaction design. As co-founder of realities.io he produced multiple award winning VR experiences, the latest being the indie VR hit Puzzling Places. His work is driven by the hope that if we get spatial computing right, it holds the chance to make computing less abstract, more explorable, more embodied and ultimately more human.
5 years and going - how we built a sustainable live service VR game
Lightning talk
Puzzling Places launched as a small, meditative VR puzzle game - and quietly turned into a live service title that's still shipping new content and expanding to new platforms years later. This talk is a practical look at running a VR live service game told from the perspective of a small, independent team without a big publisher behind it.
I’ll share with why we chose to go live service in the first place and what it means to ship monthly content as a small team. I’ll outline the processes and infrastructure we had to built to make this sustainable (content curation & sourcing, processing pipeline, cross platform CI/CD). I’ll close with which features, updates and ports moved the needle, which didn’t, and how our business model evolved over time to keep it all sustainable.
A hands on retrospective of 5+ years of live service from a team still in the middle of it, for other builders who want to have a plan for what can come after launch day.