Experience the intense, non-stop action of the arcade rail-shooter in virtual reality! Play as Lucas Lawson, a rookie cop swept into the dramatic underworld of the Torus Syndicate. Put your shooting and dodging skills to the test as you battle across metropolis in a quest for justice.
More to come! Co-op mode, Survival mode, and new characters are on the road map
Features
Classic rails shooter, Designed for VR
Designed from the ground up for Room Scale VR, Torus Syndicate draws inspiration from classic arcade shooter games while adding new possibilities not possible in the genre.
Curated Locomotion by Codeate
Our custom designed locomotion system is a new approach to moving in room-scale, allowing the player to make full use of their space in the game world.
NODE AI Director
Advanced AI enemies take cover, shoot on the move, use abilities, and flank players. Put your skills to the test as you face-off against the deadly agents of the syndicate.
Dev Blog
Torus Tuesday #4 — Curated Locomotion’s Beginnings
A couple of weeks ago, I introduced our new method for traveling through a virtual word: Curated Locomotion. I gave you reasons for what inspired us to build it; let’s take some time now to talk about the process we went through to arrive at the system we’re proud of...
read moreTorus Tuesday #3 — Building a believable world in VR
When working with any medium, it is important to recognize the strengths and the limitations of the form. As the capabilities of media technology expands, it is equally important to adapt and utilize the technology to it’s most valuable potential. Afterall, a...
read moreTorus Tuesday #2 — Introducing Curated Locomotion
At Codeate, not everything is all about games. Fundamentally, more than anything else, we want to advance the state-of-the-art in virtual reality, to bring to the vanguard new ways for users to interact with virtual worlds and elevate the level of immersion they feel...
read moreTorus Tuesday #1 — Getting Hip with it
In Stewart Brand’s book The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M. I. T., Steward Brand describes the phrase “Demo or Die”; A phrase that was coined by the students who attended the Media Lab at its infancy, and is now part of the now-famous Media...
read moreOur First Public Demo!
Today marked a first for Codeate: our very first public demo of our in-progress virtual reality game (with an in-progress name), The Torus Syndicate. On Saturday, we showed off the game at a demo event sponsored by the Los Angeles VR and Immersive Technologies Meetup...
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