The developers quickly tweaked the game play to a veracity Małek found accurate. In early testing of the game, he sensed that the VR bottles were too heavy on the bottom and weren’t responding to his tosses the way they should. Wanting the virtual bartenders to have all the freedoms of expression he uses on the job, Małek offered plenty of input when it came to incorporating flair aspects. Players can also scoop ice, stir drinks, open the refrigerator, muddle limes and pop soda water bottles. For shaking a cocktail, once you reach 10 seconds on a power scale, it’s ready to be strained-a close approximation to real-world shaking times. Pour speed, for instance, is controlled by three distinct movements-a slight tip of the wrist offers a slow pour, while fully turning over your hand dumps out all the virtual spirit Małek claims the game’s fluid technology engine, created using the NVIDIA FleX particle-based simulation, is completely accurate when it comes to pour speed and volume.
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“Of course, professional bartenders find fault with it all,” says Małek. As I spoke to him over Zoom in late January, even he seemed to recognize how silly this concept could seem at first, but he insists that real skill is required in order not to shatter bottles or spill ice onto the bar’s virtual floor.
“I didn’t want to make a game with my name on it very rookie in terms of bartending,” says Małek.
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