Buckle up and check your mirrors! CGA Studios is launching ‘Virtual Driving School’ at Steam Next Fest 2021, Steam Next Fest | June 16-22 (steampowered.com) June 16th - June 22nd.
CGA is launching the earliest demo of Virtual Driving School and is calling for testers and ‘bug busters’ to trial the early access version of the game, on Steam, at the event. CGA’s team is also delivering live game play streams and tutorials at the event and your values your feedback.
Virtual Driving School is a serious, skills-based game that gives players tips on how to become safer drivers, in a hyper-real, virtual environment. Modelled around a ‘Sim City’- style simulated world, you can visit city streets, mountain roads, or scenic highways; there’s 30 different levels to choose from and a wide range of unique driving challenges and scenarios that require precision and concentration. It’s an exciting ride!
Test your skills in the daylight or discover the challenges of night-time driving conditions in poor light. Navigate city-centre rush-hour traffic, whilst observing the rules of the road: staying in the speed limit; understanding traffic lights; and reading road signs. Start the ignition, take your car for a spin and let us know what you think.
CGA Studio MD, Jon Wetherall, explains what’s different about Virtual Driving School, and why you should give it a go: “CGA Studios has been making casual games for platforms like Nintendo Switch, mobile, and PS4 for many years. We’d also started developing AI, machine learning, VR tools, set in gamified city-centre, road network simulations, designed to help teach autonomous vehicle technology to drive safely.
“We’d created a panoply of road hazards, weather conditions, junctions, scenery, and vehicles for these tools and knew there was a really fun, serious driving game to be developed from this work. The range of hazards we created for our VR tool, VR Drive, are now in Virtual Driving School and make it stand out in the market. Developed with input from real driving instructors, Virtual Driving School gives learner drivers real driving guidance as they play the game. The game play itself is fast and fun and combines the best elements of driving games and skills-based online driving instruction.”
Coming soon...
Upcoming new features for Virtual Driving School will include:
- More vehicles in which to pick your wits against the road. Take your pick from a bus, a taxi, a lorry, or a selection of cars.
- Virtual Driving School will be launched on Xbox, Playstation, and Nintendo Switch.
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About CGA Studios
CGA Studios is an independent games development studio, set up in Liverpool in 2001. This year CGA’s released Chill Panda, an anti-anxiety game for younger children on Nintendo Switch, Lockdown Pinball and Crazy Zen Mini Golf, also on Switch. Other games include Monsters vs Robots on Steam Greenlight, Space Ribbon (a party race game for all major platforms.) Santa Tracker reached the top 5 in the USA and UK in 2015, whilst Big Pub Quiz was a top 10 iPad game in the UK in 2013. Draw with Power Tools, became the number 1 iOS game in Switzerland and was in the top 10 in 11 other countries. CGA’s portfolio of smart phone games has racked up over 10,000 downloads on Apple’s App Store, Google Play and Amazon’s App Store.
CGA’s sister company CGA Simulation creates emerging technology/ smart city solutions, around ‘Sim City’ simulation technology. CGA’s team gained experience in commercial gaming environments like Sony, universities, and academic settings, and through the management of risk and data projects. CGA uses a unique, hybrid set of skills to solve ‘real world’ issues, employing Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) disciplines.