Astaire: A Collaborative Mixed Reality Dance Game for Collocated Players
summary
Astaire is a hybrid mixed-reality dance game running on an HTC Vive where one player wears the headset (VR in with controllers on wrists) and the other watches a top-down screen (VR out with controllers strapped to ankles), sharing asymmetric, interdependent goals. Playtests with 15 people (groups of three) compare Astaire to Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes and Audioshield and show higher scores for excitement, enjoyment, and interpersonal closeness across all roles; enforced proximity (point deductions) and ankle controllers encourage tactile coordination and spectator-friendly chaos.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to Astaire
- 1:54Inspiration and design goals
- 3:40Game mechanics and roles
- 5:44Play testing and evaluation
- 9:44Design takeaways and results
- 10:09Q&A session
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