And before I even knew it, we’ve come to the end of another month. This month my goal was to develop a backpack similar to the backpack in Half-Life: Alyx (HL:A). Did I succeed? Not really. I ended up creating something more akin to a portable hole than a vacuum cleaner. What exactly do I mean by that, and how exactly did I get here though?
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I recently finished Half Life: Alyx. It took me a little over 9 hours to complete the story, and while I’ll save an experiential review of the game for a later post, I did want to take some time to highlight the systems or mechanics that I enjoyed most, and may be the focus of a Mechanic of the Month later on (hell, one of them already is).
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Welcome one and welcome all to my very first Mechanic of the Month review post! Mechanic of the Month is a somewhat laid back exploratory task where we take a game mechanic or idea that we think could hold some merit in being present in our future VR games and projects and work on a small prototype of that mechanic for a month. Then, at the end of the month we (or at least, I) will write a little report about what was accomplished, how, and how it can be improved on in the future.
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