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Smalland: Survive the Wilds VR

An open-world survival adventure built from the ground up for Meta Quest, the world of Smalland, at the scale of a Smallfolk.

Smalland: Survive the Wilds VR / / CHALLENGES

The Challenge

Merge Games had built Smalland: Survive the Wilds for PC and console, a large open world of crafting, building, taming and combat. They didn't want that game directly ported into a headset. They wanted a new standalone adventure set in the same world, native to VR, with the same art and the same sense of scale, running on Quest hardware.

OUR ROLE

What We Owned

  • Full developmentstart to finish,  design, engineering, QA, art integration and production
  • Meta Release ManagementVRC compliance and story submission through to launch day
  • VR-native designLocomotion, comfort, and hand interaction across building, crafting and combat

Smalland: Survive the Wilds VR / / CHALLENGES

Full Platform Technical Stack

What We Deliver

  • Platforms | Meta Quest 
  • Engine | Unreal Engine
  • Certification | Meta XR  
  • Design | Locomotion, interaction and comfort systems built for VR from scratch

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