The developers were surprised when Genotype dropped on March 23rd because the FPS was initially scheduled to release on April 4. Since then, the dev team at Bolverk Games has been working on a “day 1” patch to bring the game up to speed with everything PSVR2 has to offer.
Today, Genotype was updated, and the PlayStation community is ready to review and scrutinize it.
“We are less surprised about the launch today, as I clicked the button myself,” says CEO Bo Bennekov with a smile. “Anyway, we are happy that the game is finally the way we’d like it to be on the PSVR2. We are particularly curious to see how the community receives the news of Genotype running 120fps.”
Listening to player feedback, the team dialed up haptic feedback and added headset rumble. Here’s a list of changes and fixes:
New technical stuff
- Genotype is now running at 120 fps native!
- Added FSR (Foveated) rendering with 150% focus resolution and 100% base resolution
- Added headset rumble
- Added joystick deadzone setting
- Improved controller haptics
- Fixed fog color banding
- Fixed a save game issue where items would incorrectly respawn
- Fixed recentering
- Fixed missing dialog when collecting all samples in an area
Genotype PSVR2 (+Meta Quest 2, Rift, Steam, PICO)
- Genotype is Bolverk Games' 5th (published) VR title
- Development of Genotype took about 2 years and is still receiving support
- Since its launch (12 Oct. 2023), Genotype has received 6 updates and 4 ports
- Genotype is our most ambitious game yet, and we're scraping the ceiling of what we can accomplish with a studio the size of Bolverk Games
- Genotype is fully voice acted, has a professional writer attached, is scored by a musician/sound designer, and the in-game fauna developed with a biologist (Roanoke Gaming)
Weird facts
- Meta Quest 3 surprise dropped 2 days before Genotype’s launch
- Meta shut down all advertising of games with guns in October because of the Israel/Hamas conflict
- Sony surprise launched Genotype on PSVR2 2 weeks before the planned launch date.
- During development, the game’s setting moved from Antarctica to Greenland and back to Antarctica.
- The game’s protagonist was, among other things, a CIA agent. He then became a she, and a journalist, and a police officer before settling on a weather station intern.
- Genotype’s backstory is inspired by IRL events taking place in the early 20th century - The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (1898 -1922)
- The Bolverk Games studio is located in an old bottle cap factory that used to cap Carlsberg beers.
Bolverk Games
- Established in 2015, Bolverk was among the first VR game studios in the World!
- So far, Bolverk Games has published 5 VR games.
- Other titles are Kittypocalypse, Dick Wilde, Dick Wilde 2, Glyph VR, Glyph (pancake), and Genotype.
- Bolverk Games started with three guys in a flat and peaked at a team total of 14. Today, the team consists of 6 guys.