Co-Founders Alexander Mejia and Sophie Wright share their five-year journey building Starship Commander Arcade. They recount starting as a hobby project and landing a major Microsoft deal that thrust Human Interact into the spotlight as VR motion-control publishers. Facing funding shortfalls for the game's voice dialogue systems, the team confronted a tough decision between an arcade-only launch or shutting down.
This 52-minute indie adventure documentary runs DRM-free on PC with high-quality AVC video at 3840x2160 resolution and AAC stereo audio. Viewers follow the raw challenges of indie development in VR publishing. It draws in fans of real-world game studio stories and behind-the-scenes tales.
Co-Founders Alexander Mejia, and Sophie Wright sit down and talk about their journey from 2015 to 2020 making Starship Commander Arcade. Watch their journey from working on Starship Commander as a hobby project, to making their big break with Microsoft catapulting their company, Human Interact into the lime light. As publishers of VR games focused on motion controls, Starship Commander failed to raise enough money with their innovative voice dialogue systems, and were forced to make a hard choice: Release Starship Commander as an arcade only experience, or fold the company.
This film has a runtime of 52 minutes, and is DRM free.
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Video
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Duration : 52 min 21 s
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Format : AAC
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Duration : 52 min 21 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
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Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
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Stream size : 116 MiB (3%)
