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Enter the HyperBody Dungeons: An Experimental VR Open World

Welcome to HyperBody, an experimental open-world VR game space pushing the boundaries of immersive gaming. Explore six unique and intense gameplay levels: Pinkray, Seventeen/Sixty-One, Vampire Squid, Stratholme.GoStop, Typhoon Lionrock, and Garden Portal. Prepare for a psychedelic adventure unlike any other!

Immerse yourself in an aesthetically driven trance, showcasing the vibrant world of anime, comics, games, and novels from European and Asian fandoms. Navigate this "passive" VR experience using intuitive movements like walking, flying, rotating, and touching to discover hidden portals that will transport you to a new level. Keep a shining eye shape – you will need it!

HyperBody encourages you to use your entire body to fully explore the VR space and provide invaluable feedback on its aesthetics, movement, and overall visceral experience. This experiment merges art and virtual reality, inviting you to help shape the future of interactive entertainment!

Are you ready to embark on this rhythm-fueled adventure and imagine an alternative VR cosmos? Step into HyperBody and redefine your perception of reality in virtual reality game!

Player Instructions

Due to HyperBody's experimental nature, please check the system requirements first. Be sure to view the quick reference guide before you begin playing. For more in-depth information, browse the manual and connect with fellow explorers in our Discord community!

Level 1: Pinkray

Pinkray is a collaborative celebration of queer "tuning" through vidding, shipping, interviews, and architectural mods. Experience an evolving "game-fandom" as "intra-actions" take shape. Interact with non-collision NPCs, unravel the mysteries of architectural ruins, and engage with 3D animated text in visual novels, and experience affective NPC dialogues.

Level 2: Seventeen/Sixty-One

Co-created with Chinese science fiction writer Tang Fei, Seventeen/Sixty-One offers an alternative vision of queer identity, femininity, and technology in the Chinese science fiction landscape. Explore interactive paths paved with 2D illustrations, animations, and 3D text, accompanied by immersive soundscapes and atmospheric objects.

Level 3: Vampire Squid

Inspired by Vilem Flusser's book of the same name, Vampire Squid presents an abstract cosmos for exploration. Journey through multiple worlds created by remixing 3D scans of spaces, cartographies, and surfaces from London and Berlin. Discover a complex spatial autoethnographic archive showcasing Flusser's profound thoughts on skin, space, and sexuality.

Encounter non-collision 3D-scanned architectural ruins on a cosmic scale and interact with surreal NPCs in this thought-provoking VR art experience.

Level 4: Stratholme.GoStop

Stratholme.GoStop presents a unique fusion of physical and virtual elements inspired by Boxiao's short novel. Engage with modding and crossover elements between a Chinese post-industrial ordnance factory welfare zone and the Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne universe. Decipher visual novels based on dodecahedron objects and explore various Chinese urban space 3D-scanned ruins.

Level 5: Typhoon Lionrock

Typhoon Lionrock is a highly speculative exploration of movement, direction, scale, and soundscape within a VR game space. Designed for hardcore players, this challenging level pays homage to time spent at the Run Run Shaw Library, City University of Hong Kong. Navigate multiple abstract scenes inspired by Hong Kong, Dunhuang, and Chongqing, but be cautious of potential dizziness and nausea!

Level 6: Garden Portal

Based on Chinese immortality cultivation, Garden Portal invites you to explore a non-linear audio-visual space through a primal VR experience. Discover intentionally incomplete and imperfect sound and architectural design. Uncover numerous NPCs to encounter, interact with, and seek out hidden tokens amidst the architectural ruins.

Supported By

HyperBody utilizes the Wwise sound engine (academic license) for an immersive soundscape.

The game's development has benefited from valuable feedback received during various evaluation workshops at Goldsmiths Computing Department.