The game, developed in collaboration with PlayStation Talents (a national entrepreneurship program articulated by Sony) in collaboration with Voxel Labs, puts us in the role of an eccentric genius with a penchant for technological gadgets. he will know them ”.
As we pass the levels, we will unlock the content of the Master of Digital Art for Video Games in 'Voxel Online', a new Spanish-language education platform linked to Voxel School and 100% digital.
In its development, ‘Probe: A Game Dev Experience’ has also had the support of The University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC), Intel and HP. Not surprisingly, the team behind the game is made up mostly of teachers, active video game professionals, and industry experts.
Surely most video game gamers have never been tempted and eager to create their own video game. He implemented and saw the idea on the screen, as well as programming and designing a game. Surely some of you have taken the first steps in a program or designed a level or circuit of a video game with the tools they offer you.
You can almost feel it with 'Probe: A Game Dev Experience', but you know the ups and downs of a video game development studio. Voxel Labs introduces us to this title and learns parts of the process of creating a video game through the PlayStation Talents initiative and feels like a designer, programmer or digital artist.
For starters, please note that 'Probe: A Game Dev Experience' is available for PlayStation 4, but can also be played on PS5. It can also be played with a PlayStation VR glasses device.
The first thing is to position ourselves as an eccentric genius who loves technological gadgets, and we start the game from the moment our room seems full of screens.
Suddenly we find ourselves in the reception of a development studio, quite futuristic by the way, both the studio and the outdoor landscape, as well as the characters that we will meet and direct through the opportunity to talk. Once introduced, we will talk to the director of the studio and from there we will have the opportunity to learn about the many resources, processes and developments of a video game.
Many of these friends will talk to us about programming, design and art, and when we are clear about that, we can get to know these sections in particular, so that the studio can move forward with the development of its next version. Each lesson will be accompanied by a practical exercise that we have to do on the screen and when we have finished we can send it to the studio to join the video game.
In any case, everything we learn is fairly basic, and Voxel Labs, aware of this, provides us with access to the educational content of the Master's in Digital Video Gaming network, once the objectives of each department have been met.
‘Probe: A Game Dev Experience’ is a very short experience and the only thing we can do is repeat the exercises we have suggested. On a negative note, please note that the interface for moving objects and marking options is not nice.