Specific release date?

[Spambi619]

I am a professional bartender, recently invested in a high spec PC and HTC VIVE with the view to see how i can bring VR into my own job, demos and the like and this intrigues me greatly. I myself am much more of a classics cocktail bartender, i own a speakeasy, so i do wonder if this game will have a full focus on flairing or whether it will incorporate some really great recipes, and exercises associated with the more drinks technicalties as well as the flair show.

I would also be interested in knowing how long you plan for the early access to be and to what degree you will listen to feedback and respond accordingly? Obviously with this being the first experience of it's kind i hope you plan to listen to the community and professionals alike to deliver something that will really set the bench mark for putting our industry into a VR and augmented reality.

[Spambi619]

I would also be interested to know when in October you plan for this early access release?

[VR Factory]

HI
Thank you for your interest.
Cool that the players are also professional bartenders !!!
The game was being developed basing on consultations with the team of almost twenty title-winning bartenders and testing by professional game testers. The tests were based on both technical aspects of serving drinks, bartending know-how as well as factors influencing the smoothness of the game. We aimed at achieving a perfect balance between a simulator and gaming experience. We combined educational aspects with entertainment and competition, because Bartender VR is not only a virtual bartending course, but an exciting competition as well. It is also a GAME. Players’ top scores and time results will be compared with the results of other players around the world.

Below you will find information about the Bartender VR Simulator which we hope will answer the questions you have asked.
Early access is about 6 months. You will also get more information from this movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veFRLIvi59k

BARTENDER VR SIMULATOR offers you a unique combination of a simulator, bartending course and incredible immersive VR game. Thanks to BARTENDER VR SIMULATOR, the player will travel around the world, work as a bartender in four professionally equipped virtual bars, explore the secrets of the art of bartending and learn how to make most popular drinks from around the world.

You will start your bartending journey as a bartender in a music club. After mastering the four drinks dedicated to this location and achieving the goals that involve making perfect drinks on time and earning the specified amount of virtual money, the player will be invited to work in a beach bar. In this location you will learn how to make four new drinks and face new exciting challenges. Upon completing them, you will have to prove yourself in two bars on the top of a skyscraper located in a vibrant modern city and master new drinks.

In each new bar, you will learn how to make more and more inventive and complex drinks. Throughout the game, the player will master three bartending techniques – building, stirring and shaking. In the game mode, players will be rewarded with points (dollars) for serving drinks as quickly and correctly as possible. Choosing proper drinking glasses, using dedicated ingredients in appropriate proportions or even following the right sequences of actions will be also rewarded. You will also earn extra points for using the flair technique in your challenges (the art of juggling in bartending).
After completing the practice phase and achieving the goals in the fourth bar, the player will be rewarded with a certificate of completion of the world’s first virtual bartending course, which will unlock the “Pro Mode”. The aim of this challenge is to earn as many points as possible for making, in a limited time, drinks randomly ordered from the list of the 16 introduced drinks.

From the very beginning, one of our main assumptions was to take the full advantage of all that the VR technology offers, so that we could faithfully reproduce in the virtual reality the rules and conditions in which professional bartenders do their job. To achieve this, with the expertise of Tomek Małek, a Bartending World Champion, we developed a complex system for simulating gripping and integrated NVIDIA’s Flex technology which allowed us to achieve almost real-life physical representation of fluids – thanks to that, each liquid in the game has its own unique dynamics and reflects the real liquids used by bartenders.

To ensure the best representation of the real world in Bartender VR, we asked Tomek Małek to select professional bartending equipment and then scanned it with special 3D scanners and, after careful processing, reproduced it using the Unreal Engine 4.

We took the same approach when it came to the sound layer. We moved all scanned elements to be reproduced in the game to a recording studio where, using professional equipment, we recorded dozens of sounds and sound effects that we then implemented in the game.
Finally, we created most accurate representations of the installations and equipment of the virtual bars so that the environments that the player explores closely correspond to real-life bartending spaces.

We hope you enjoy it!!!
It will probably be available at the end of this week
We look forward to your feedback
Best Regards
VR Factory Team

[fishhead420]

I want to be the first to become a pro bartender that was trained in VR. I do already own Flairtender, which is also a nice game, and am very excited about this one. Can't wait to see what is involved in this, have always wanted to learn the flair techniques and this looks like the best way to get my feet wet, next will be practice bottles for RL :)

[Crankor]

So early access will be 6 months or early access will be released in 6 months? Just curious since the steam page previously said the release date already happened but has been adjusted since. I'm guessing early access this month and it will last approx 6 months?

I've been waiting for a bartending vr game for a long time, looks great.

[VR Factory]

I'm sure that you can't wait to play it - so I have a great news for you. We plan to release it tomorrow! So make sure to come back here in next 24h :)

About early access, we plan to stay here for max 6 months, gather all possible feedback to improve our game and release it even better then it is right now.

[drhotwing1]

Originally posted by VR Factory:

I'm sure that you can't wait to play it - so I have a great news for you. We plan to release it tomorrow! So make sure to come back here in next 24h :)

About early access, we plan to stay here for max 6 months, gather all possible feedback to improve our game and release it even better then it is right now.

I for one will be getting it asap :) This looks really nice. Keep up the great work!