Welcome to IGDA Finland Turku Hub May meetup with Runevision!
Join us at Saaristobaari (Cabinet side), get familiar with local independent developer Rune Skovbo Johansen and try out ‘Eye of the Temple’ with Meta Quest 2!
17:00 - Doors open
18:00 - Program starts
Demo corner is open after the official program ends. If you have a game you would like to present send email to oskari.tamminen@igda.fi
Eye of the Temple
Explore a vast and treacherous temple in the daring room-scale VR adventure Eye of the Temple. Keep your balance and your wits about you as you step between moving blocks, dodging hazardous traps and solving environmental puzzles with only your torch and whip in hand. As you explore the temple complex and its past, you might just uncover the mystery of the Eye and find yourself becoming part of its legend.
History
After positive reception of the 2016 VR game jam game Chrysalis Pyramid, Rune Skovbo Johansen decided to create a more ambitious spiritual successor. Keeping only the core mechanic of stepping from one moving block to another, development of Eye of the Temple began in the spring of 2016, with Johansen working on it on a part time basis.
A whole different aesthetic and environment was chosen for Eye of the Temple, focusing on the atmosphere of treacherous temples from classic action adventure films. After much research and development, a physically simulated whip was added as a new core mechanic in 2017.
At the end of 2020 Johansen quit his day job to pursue indie game development full-time, and Eye of the Temple was released on Steam on October 14, 2021.
