
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, there’s a spring in everybody’s step. It’s a perfect day until Ella steps outside. Rain or Shine VR is EMMY award-winning Google Spotlight Stories most interactive short to date. Created and produced at Nexus Interactive. Directed by Felix Massie.
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"Google Spotlight Stories: Rain or Shine" is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. This software app plays a simple VR movie that you can look around in while you watch. It won an Emmy... which, when talking about games, is not the flex the developers think it is, because Emmys aren't really given to video games (although there is an "interactive media" category... that's still not a game, is it). For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop. There's no loop here, no true interactive feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played". This has misleadingly been launched in the "Games" section of Steam instead of the "Software" section. This is a common mistake for developers who are new to Steam, or don't understand the difference between games and software which isn't a game. It seems this software published incorrectly as a game is simply lack of experience/knowledge of the correct process. Here's a link for the process to publish non-game software on Steam: [url=https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithPublishing?issueid=925]Steam Developer Help With Software Publishing[/url] It's unfortunate this process was not known about/followed, resulting in a software application being published in the wrong place. Having said that, this is from Google, who've been way too busy trying to shove garbage AI down my throat than get my search results right (how bad is Google Search getting now? It's awful!). So I guess we shouldn't be surprised the people who can't answer a simple question without shoving 10 thousand adverts in my face would have problems understanding what a game is. My guess is they weren't sure how to publish this, so they Googled it. Publishing things which aren't games on Steam in the Games section as games is misleading to gamers and somewhat harmful, because it pollutes the Steam marketplace and takes away visibility and market exposure for genuine game developers who do the right thing and make games for gamers. There are no gameplay loops in this software, no "gameplay", no meaningful game like interaction. It's a software application and as such has no merits as a video game for gamers. Because of this, I cannot recommend this non-game software as a game to gamers.
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A fun short, there isn't much of a story. The animation style is really cool though.
[h1]Google Spotlight Stories: Rain or Shine[/h1] [table] [tr] [th][b]⭐Juego gratuito⭐[/b][/th] [th]VR🥽[/th] [/tr] [/table] Si tienes unas VR y te apetece pasar una tarde disfrutando de cortometrajes con experiencias inmersivas, os recomiendo Google Spotlight Stories. Se trata de animaciones de unos 15 minutos en las que podéis mirar a vuestro alrededor y descubrir todo lo que sucede en la escena. No son simples vídeos en 360 grados, sino modelos en 3D. Eso sí, no cuentan con la interacción de otros juegos VR ni permiten moverse libremente, aunque algunos ofrecen un poco más de movilidad que otros. Rain or Shine cuenta la historia de una niña que recibe un regalo gafado. En mi experiencia, he tenido algunos tropiezos técnicos: por ejemplo, cuando había cambios de escena, la imagen se distorsionaba y rompía por completo la inmersión. Top Google Spotlight Stories: 1. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/882110/Google_Spotlight_Stories_Age_of_Sail/]Age of Sail[/url] 2. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/476540/Google_Spotlight_Stories_Pearl/]Pearl[/url] 3. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/714780/Google_Spotlight_Stories_Special_Delivery/]Special Delivery[/url] 4. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/832080/Google_Spotlight_Stories_Back_to_the_Moon/]Back to the Moon[/url] 5. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/714610/Google_Spotlight_Stories_Rain_or_Shine]Rain or Shine[/url] 6. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/713320/Google_Spotlight_Stories_Sonaria/]Sonaria[/url] 7. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/750360/Google_Spotlight_Stories_On_Ice/]On Ice[/url] 8. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/714580/Google_Spotlight_Stories_Son_of_Jaguar/]Son of Jaguar[/url] 9. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/750350/Google_Spotlight_Stories_Piggy/]Piggy[/url] [u][h2][url=steampowered.com/curator/45277685]🎮🌵Más reseñas en mi mentor🌵🎮[/url][/h2][/u]
Koşan bir domuz lezzetli bir pastayla tanışır. Günaha boyun eğecek mi? Siz izlerken değil! Google Spotlight Stories, karakter ve izleyici arasında yeni bir etkileşim düzeyi olan Piggy VR'yi sunuyor. Yönetmenliğini Jan Pinkava ve Mark Oftedal üstleniyor. Nazar Resimleri ile üretilmiştir.
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[h1]CON 'STA PIOGGIA E CON 'STO VENTO...[/h1] Se avete un visore VR non potete mancare i 9 corti di [i]Google Spotlight Stories[/i] (cercateli tutti, sono GRATIS!): ognuno sfrutta in maniera magistrale la visione a 360° del VR; artisticamente ineccepibili, con qualcosa da dire senza troppe parole, che vi rimarrà dentro anche solo per la semplicità del messaggio. [i]Rain & Shine[/i] è il tipico cartoon a 360° che vi farà girare su voi stessi per non perdervi nulla di quello che succede. E per andare sul sicuro gli spostamenti di camera sono stati "mascherati" per non dare la nausea. Divertente e ottimamente rifinito, ha uno stile pulito che sicuramente piacerà a tutta la famiglia.
Nice story, but I had weird problem, when camera moves, screen become blurry and vignetted.
A short film appropriate for people of all ages. And free! The movement of the camera is slow and the edges blur during movement to keep things simple to the easily motion sick. Check out the rest of the series as well!
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