Please understand that I am humourless. I have no patience for fun, jokes, japery, antics, shenanigans, tomfoolery, or banter. I've surgically severed my face's smiling muscles and developed a workout routine to pump the frowners. I am no fun.
And yet -- mercy me! -- I laugh like a drain watching snippets of Mosh Pit Simulator [official site]. It's an upcoming VR game from McPixel developer Sos Sosowski, pushing bugs and glitches to the extreme as interfaces fall apart in your hands, flailing mannequins destroy a city, and a dinosaur warps and whips and trashes a kitchen.
Mosh Pit Simulator is... some sort of motion-controlled VR game about duffing up people and making things go wonky? Something like that. I honestly can't tell you what Mosh Pit Simulator is or will be, I can only take you back through its development to show you what it has been and what Sos has said it was. Let's pick through tweets and blog posts and tunes in reverse-chronological order:
I don't think I should have woke it up. pic.twitter.com/FzzNjMgbBi
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) January 27, 2017 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsI might be a bit late for Oscar nominations, but it's going pretty well! It's just missing @prattprattpratt! pic.twitter.com/4qbuNMl1GZ
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) January 25, 2017 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsFound this brexiter in space, but I put him back! pic.twitter.com/CMc6wO6LmW
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) January 17, 2017 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsOh god! I just pulled a Sandra Bullock in space and it was genuinely terrifying... pic.twitter.com/tsmPkPaiSH
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) January 17, 2017 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsDoes this qualify as space opera? pic.twitter.com/JrTpcPr8CF
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) January 17, 2017 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsCan we have this in Google Earth VR please? pic.twitter.com/Ij63Pshub4
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) January 12, 2017 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsI've been told I should rely on scalable solutions! pic.twitter.com/x4kqJETT27
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) January 12, 2017 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsOk, making UI for VR is hard. pic.twitter.com/mpfliC949O
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) January 11, 2017 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsMonday Simulator, anyone? pic.twitter.com/qvxkLQ1UkM
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) November 14, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsThis trailer's a 360-degree vid, give it a good drag around:
Mosh Pit Simulator 360° VR Teaser Trailer Watch on YouTube
You can knock yourself out by accident when picking up the phone in real life too, right? pic.twitter.com/KpMPd1tHxe
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) November 14, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsMosh Pit Simulator tutorials are still a bit broken. pic.twitter.com/1KM0m7XIAb
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) August 9, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsAt this point, Sos popped out a blog post detailing his plans for the game. He talks about a story mode, "funny" modes, enemies, helicopters, and superpowers.
"I want to keep the game as 'open' as it can get, in terms of letting the player break everything and play around and exploit bugs etc," he said.
This is getting out of hand! Somebody call Sandra Bullock! pic.twitter.com/Gd8VnVUelA
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) July 28, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsOh man, they're forming gangs already! pic.twitter.com/xA6ifMyaMR
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) July 20, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsThere is no such thing as too much physics in a video game pic.twitter.com/XJv2gHIT3s
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) July 6, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsAn essential part of learning something is not knowing how to do it, so might as well enjoy being terrible at it!
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) May 29, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings- Wanna go to a concert?
- Who's playing?
- I don't care! pic.twitter.com/ZaaZQ1U2YU
You can now make friends with the mosh pit humans! <3 pic.twitter.com/wqmTtPQbP9
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) May 9, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsI'm pretty sure I nailed the reality of soccer here. At least that's how I remember it from high school. pic.twitter.com/6Tg5irkaCH
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) April 28, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsTeam Creepy Human blasting off again... ✧ pic.twitter.com/PyiqXZRIyB
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) April 14, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsIt's like wild west! They forgot horses (also, pants), but it's fine! pic.twitter.com/BUfHug2gG7
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) April 14, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsI have no idea what I'm doing. pic.twitter.com/lPZIbKf4db
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) April 14, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsOk, what kind of VR game would you like to see me make?
— Sos Sosowski (@Sosowski) April 11, 2016 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsMate, I've no clue.
[Disclosure: I know Sos a bit and contributed a tiny, tiny amount to the Doom Piano (its monitor shroud) he and some other rabble made.]
