Ascension Protocol

In the end they have reached the core. You represent our final struggle. Push against endless and overwhelming odds. Overcome your limits, your fears and ascend.

A VR experience pushing the boundaries of your spatial awareness by pitting you against swarms of enemies from all sides. Deflect, Dodge and Defend what is yours - if you fail, the very ground you stand upon will crumble as it leaves you with less and less. If you succeed, ascend a step further towards salvation.

This game was entirely created with the Mantis Engine, our custom C++ VR engine using OpenXR

How to play

Kill Crawling enemies to gain ammo with which you can shoot the distant drone enemies - use the dropped gems to fuel the platform so that you may ascend higher.

Requirements: 

• Windows 10/11
• RTX 3060 or similar recommended
• Any OpenXR runtime
• Supports (at least) Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift.
• The game is intended as a roomscale experience of up to 4x4 meters.  For smaller play spaces, smaller platforms and smooth locomotion is also available.
  • Double click left joystick or CTRL + L to enable smooth locomotion using the left joystick.

The team

Design

Hristo Radev	Producer
Manó Attila Deák	Design Lead

Programming

Juul Harks	Programming Lead, Engine and Tools
Iddo Shoikhet	Engine and Tools
Rem Voorhuis	Gameplay, Physics
Luc Momber	Graphics, DevOps
Timethy Hyman	Graphics
Simen Wolters	Gameplay, Engine
Javier Carranza Burgueño	Gameplay, Engine
Harry Ashikian	Gameplay

Special Thanks

Abe Groothoff	Music
Razia Andreadou	Marketing