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Bumblebee Jam for Bose AR [cl_column_inner width="1/4"] Client:  Bose, developed in collaboration with Playcrafting Team: Gordey Chernyy: songs, programming Maria Mishurenko: programming, game design Carol Mertz: UI design, voice acting Sevan Mujukian: songs and sounds [cl_media image="id:1010|url:https%253A%252F%252Fsynestheticecho.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2020%252F02%252FAPPLE.png" custom_link="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bumblebee-jam/id1485176964"][cl_media image="id:1011|url:https%253A%252F%252Fsynestheticecho.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2020%252F02%252FGOOGLEPLAy.png" custom_link="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SynestheticEcho.BumbleBeeJam"] Links:Variety press releaseBusiness insider press releaseNYC Bose Game Jam video [cl_column_inner width="3/4"] Bumblebee Jam is an explorative choose-your-own-adventure musical experience played exclusively with Bose AR devices. Layer song loops, set in a world where flowers produce music. Listen, explore, and nod along to the music, collecting song loops like pollen to blossom a musical garden. Using your Bose AR device, look around to find new sounds, nodding your head along to the beat when you find one you like. Explore as long as you want, discovering countless ways of layering together song tracks. This game is an audio-first experience designed for Bose AR devices (Bose Frames, Quiet Comfort 35 II and N700 series headphones). You don’t need to look at [...]

Action Spectra is an accessible, social, bite-sized VR fitness adventures set up in a unique and ever-changing universe It is a game, a service, a social network and a creative outlet all rolled into one app. It revolutionizes the way people think about movement. Action Spectra is not a full replacement of fitness routine (yet), but it’s a novel, engaging way to regularly enjoy exercise, meditation and build healthy habits. Currently in development. [cl_column_inner width="1/3"] EVERY ACTION MATTERS When you buy the app and create an account, you are being assigned a piece of land on the remote planet. There is nothing there, except unlimited potential, as you create a complex ecosystem from scratch. You become the Spectral Guardian, the sole source of energy in this world with every exercise performed affecting the world you created. You will grow forests from seeds, defeat evil and nurture life. If you neglect your ecosystem by not returning to the game, it will decay [...]

Bizarre Barber - action arcade for VR Bizarre Barber is a fast-paced VR action game for Oculus Rift set in a surreal world where you play as an alien barber providing stylish haircuts for eccentric clientele. Instead of a comfy adjustable chair you’d see in most barber shops, all of your clients move chaotically through the world unable to sit still even for a second. Players will make perfect cuts, dodge dangerous obstacles, catch speed boosts and power-ups, and even earn money to unlock new tools and new worlds. Can you keep up with the bizarre styling trends and hyperactive pace of this surreal metropolis?Bizarre Barber is a grant winner for Oculus Launchpad 2018 program. Development is supported by Oculus. FOR YOUR TEENAGER AND YOUR GRANDMA Bizarre Barber’s core foundation is super simple, intuitive, and responsive. The single step mechanics with a humorous twists feel pleasant and rewarding in virtual reality. There is no better way to replicate this level [...]

Mind Roomie VR game  Mind Roomie is a free game made that teaches children and young adults the foundations of mindfulness practice. Unlike most games, Mind Roomie encourages increasingly slow movements until the player is fully still. At the end of the play session, the player is guided through a traditional meditation exercise. Mind Roomie will be available for Google Daydream VR and might be used in the classroom setting.  Mind Roomie’s outcome is that children and teenagers learn how to meditate using a novel game experience.Gameplay is wrapped around Mindfulness Triangle: thoughts, sensations, and emotions. The first level represents sensations (i.e. cold, heavy, wind, itchy, etc.); the second level is all about detecting feelings and emotions (i.e. bored, interested, excited, tired, etc.); and the third is about choices and the feelings associated with them (i.e. was hurt, tomorrow, that happens again, buy groceries, shouldn’t have done it, etc). Thoughts are not only metaphorical, but appear on screen for the [...]