“The room that you play in also has a lot to do with how fast you can complete some parts of VR games. There are also some applications for literal out of bounds tricks with games on the HTC Vive, due to how how the device maps the play space. We saw this being discussed by a couple pro VR esports players during the VR Challenger League. This makes running the games much more challenging, and making big time-losing mistakes in long runs even more punishing, because not only are you losing seconds or even potentially a WR, but it makes you more tired when trying over and over to get that perfect run.”Įnergy and stamina certainly come into play at high levels of VR gaming. “VR is also unique because one of the biggest limiting factors to how fast you can complete the game is your physical ability to grab, move, throw, jump, and everything else quickly. There are also little tricks due to it being a physics-based environment, like weighing down the soap dispenser to wash the dishes faster or tossing an item from one hand to the other. What typically looks like a lot of flailing around, turns into insane routing and memory for each step. Of course it's more than just flailing your arms, for you have to be very precise on your movements to be able to get the best times.” Instead of sitting down and playing on a keyboard and mouse or a controller, you are standing up and constantly flailing your arms everywhere trying to do things fast. “ Job Simulator, and quite frankly all VR games are different from games outside of VR because, while you do still need to really know the game, practice, and build up the muscle memory to run the game, it's a lot more physical than other types of games. Getting into a VR as a speedrun though, has a slew of new challenges that usually don’t come up in other speedgames. However, slowly but surely I saved up and bought parts for a better PC and a Vive, and since about November have been running the game.” However, at the time I only had a sub-par laptop and not too much money saved up. “I thought that speedrunning Job SImulator could be a fun and interesting thing to do, and decided then that I wanted to run the game. “About a year ago, I was watching someone do a Let's Play of Job Simulator on YouTube, and I saw on the suggested videos bar a speedrun of the Office Worker level in 7 minutes and 35 seconds,” said ipie4fun. Luckily, ipie4fun was willing to let us pick his brain.įor starters, we had to know why Job Simulator? Recently, a ridiculous run was posted on the leaderboards and being initially drawn in due to it being a VR run, we tossed out some questions to the runner to see what makes Job Simulator a viable speedgame. We’ve seen it applied to Wii Sports Golf and even the adventure game Return to Zork, but this is one of the first VR speedruns to really show the potential of taking that approach to the VR world. Speedrunning almost always adds interesting layers to a game, no matter what that game might be. Job Simulator may seem like a silly throwaway game that one might show grandma to convince her that VR is cool, but for one player it became about optimisation and reaching greatness! Now that VR gaming is starting to pick up, there’s an opportunity to escape the everyday for something fantastic, something out of this world, or something silly that commentates on the world of working a dull job. Being able to sort a shelf in seconds or tossing a can of beans to a co-worker down the aisle like a ninja, it’s the little things that can make a day go quicker. There are simple pleasures to be had in retail jobs.
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