Game Description
Blortasia is an abstract art world in the sky.
Fly freely through a surreal maze of evolving sculptures. Take a break from reality and explore an animated psychedelic sculpture park. Wander through the labyrinth, soar across the open space, or just hang out and let the mesmerizing ever-changing sculptures provide a rejuvenating refuge for your mind. Blortasia combines art and flying in virtual reality.
Blortasia is a virtual reality art experience designed to engage the imagination and inspire wonder through shape, color, motion, sound, and spatial presence. Instead of recreating art from the real world, Blortasia explores virtual reality as an aesthetic medium in and of itself. Rather than telling a narrative story like a movie, or presenting objectives, puzzles, and challenges like a game, Blortasia transports you into an art installation unconstrained by the limits of ordinary reality.
Features
• Innovative Physics based VR navigation makes flying in Blortasia easy and comfortable even for most motion sensitive people.
• Blortasia's flowing designs provide a constantly evolving environment that's always unique.
• Hypnotic soundtrack fuses ancient and modern sound healing techniques.
• The abstract nature of Blortasia inspires the imagination through pareidolia.
• Psychedelic boogie board platform provides spatial reference and stability for surfing through Blortasia.
Flying is simple and intuitive.
Point the controller where you want to go and squeeze the trigger to accelerate.
Use one controller or combine them for increased speed and maneuverability.
Low, medium, and high speed modes and analog triggers provide smooth and precise control. Explore the space at your own pace.
Blortasia is created by artist and Academy Award winning visual effects pioneer, Kevin Mack.
Mack's work is inspired by transcendent visions, technology, nature, neuroscience, physics, and artificial life.
No. of Reviews: 20
Review 1
Purchased!
Just great! Such a relaxing and beautiful experience.
Review 2
Purchased!
This is a quick 2 minute tech demo and then its boring. You'd have to be on some
powerful drugs to be entertained. I find all the glowing reviews hard to
believe.
Review 3
Purchased!
Absolutely worth $5. This is the tripiest media I have ever seen. This was one
of the more amazing experiences I have had with VR. It will definitly be
something will we be demoing to people and come back to for myself. Please make
more experiences like this. I will thow money at you.
Review 4
Purchased!
If Dali and Pollock had VR then this is what they would have made. Super trippy
flying through the abstract art. Just wish I could interact with the blobs and
it had multiplayer aspect to enjoy this trip with others.
Review 5
Purchased!
Overpriced, for sure, and probably not worth it even 50% off on sale for most
people. I liked this alot, though. It's my cup of tea, for sure. You can fly
around a big ass rainbow swirl of space paint, up in space. It's got some
ambient music that works, but is stuck on a loop. That's basically it. It's
clearly some kind of labor of love, by and for the people who like their
colorful VR. It wouldn't take a ton of work to pump enough content into this
thing, but it's about 4 dollars too expensive, and anybody who buys this who
isn't me is likely to feel burned. It might have been the first thing I've seen
that skinned the Knuckles though. If you want to get weird with your VR, try 'a
tonne of feathers' for free on VivePort. That was probably the most bizarre and
eclectic thing I've ever played.
Review 6
Purchased!
This is one of the experiences I always show to people new to VR. And most of
them love it! When they can handle the highest speed, they are ready to
hoVRboard :-)
Review 7
Purchased!
Sounds excellent.
Review 8
Purchased!
It's phenomenal. You get out of it exactly as much as you take.
If you judge VR content based on the effect it has upon you, and what it brings
into your life, then Blortasia is worth $5 without a second thought. Sit in the
centre of a deforming, living psychedelic sculpture and meditate, comfortable in
the knowledge that this is just one of hundreds of many sculptures inside a
world that presents itself in this way to only you.
The thing that I love so much about this is there isn't a point where you can
fully wrap your mind around it. The harder you try, the more complex and massive
everything becomes. Until your ego stops trying so hard to understand what's
going on and you can just be.
10/10 worth the price of a sandwich.
Review 9
Purchased!
This is VR bliss.
You can fly pretty fast if you have both controllers on high, and squeeze both
controllers at the same time. Just make sure they're both pointing in the same
direction. Removing the standind platform will also allow you a litte more
speed. Try flying out of one window and back in through another. Great fun!
Review 10
Purchased!
Rad, I wish there was more stuff like this for VR.
Review 11
Purchased!
If you play this and dont love it, I think your a little dead inside .Its what
Vr was designed for. Flying round the outside of the shapes is a seriously
thrill. I could watch the small pieces morphing for hours. Please add more
content and scenery. If you have ever had dreams where you can fly or float this
is just like it . Thank you for producing this game.
Review 12
Purchased!
I read the rave reviews so though I would give it a try as it was only £3.99.
Sadly I was left pretty dissapointed, It's not for me. I was hoping there would
be more options or customisation but its just like flying around a big mixed
paint blob in the sky. Nice textures and light effects plus the controller skins
are cool but it seems nothing more than a basic tech demo to me. A 5 minute
experience and not fun but that's just my opinion. It might be a bit better
after a few pints or a smoke!
Review 13
Purchased!
$5 is a biiiiit much but at this point I'm willing to pay just to support people
making something that's not a glorified cellphone game for ADD toddlers.
Im going to definitely unleash this on VRgins to blow their minds.
Review 14
Purchased!
Very nice soothing and relaxing flight through the color space, my only gripe is
the fact you can't use your controllers to turn left or right.
Perhaps later it would nice if Kevin could add some interaction with some of the
color blobs.
Review 15
Purchased!
I am all for flying in VR through abstract shapes, but this is really barebones.
And five dollars? That's just cynical. If you want to fly and glide in VR
through dreamy landscapes, while weird music plays, for under ten bucks, go buy
Lucid Trips for an experience that's ten times better.
Five bucks for this. For shame.
Review 16
Purchased!
This is one of the trippiest game I've ever played!
There are no objectives. There are no missions. There are no puzzles.
There's just this procedurally generated tubular labyrinth floating in the sky
that looks like it's made out of wet paint morphing around like it's liquified.
You could maybe call it a maze but there's not exactly a singular exit you're
supposed to find.
There are globs of paint-like goo floating around changing colors and patterns
and then there are more complex structures that look spongey or molecular.
All you do is fly around inside and outside of it listening to the music and
it's amazing.
The music sounds like throat singing and synthesizer but it also might have
didgeridoo mixed in. It's the definition of droning. It lasts like twenty
minutes then loops from the beginning.
Blortasia is an abstract artistic meditation on novelty. How you experience it
is up to you.
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Review 17
Purchased!
This is hands down one of the most stunning VR experiences I've ever played. I
originally tried Zen Parade (Mack's Galaxy Gear VR app) at VRLA, and my mind was
blown. However, this..... this, is something else entirely. This near brought me
to tears. Its so beautfiul, and feels like love. Do yourself a favor and go meet
all the weird and unique entities you'll find in blortasia. Jesus its so good.
Review 18
Purchased!
It's like a 'walls are breathing' acid trip thing (with some beautiful music)
where you can float around in a blob that is sort of oozing coloured patterns.
It's nice if you're looking for that and are in the right head space. A little
creepy for kids since it's sort of pulsing dismal patterns and strange
vocalisation. Anyway kind of a cool idea. Really liked the music.
Review 19
Purchased!
Fabulous
Well if your inclinations happen to lie in that direction , You can now remove
“Try LSD” from your bucket list.
Yes my friends, this is much safer than risking your health and safety
experimenting with hallucinogens.
This was a crazy experience . You can’t tell from the previews but you can float
right up to say a structure that is metamorphosizing between the shape of a
watermelon and a liver , and get yourself a few inches away from said object and
the resolution and detail is just crazy, Colors shifting and flowing into each
other like colored oil and water mixing , and swirling.
I can hear the fans on my water cooled graphics card speeding up , so I am
guessing you will need a decent rig to run this .
This is now one of my favorite things to show somebody what VR can do .
It’s also a masterpiece in modern art , on equal status with “The Night Cafe” an
fabulous experience where you enter a Van Gogh painting.
Review 20
Purchased!
EXPERIENCED ON THE OCULUS RIFT AND WINDOWS MIXED REALITY
You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/oWSiLMCYJKg
This is a VR showcase for Kevin's Mack art piece Blortasia, which is basically a
huge VR art sculpture. It's like a tie dye psychedelic trip with some ohmm sound
track on repeat. You can fly around the sculpture and go inside and through it
to see large or small shapes of ever-changing colors.
It's running on the Unity engine. There is no snap or smooth turning. You can't
turn off the "ohmmm" soundtrack on repeat. I did enjoy this art piece, but I
actually think that Blort (a mini-Blortasia experience on MoOR) is better. It
seems this giant version has poorer textures and seems like it may be stretched
out. The lighting isn't the best either.
I'm not an art critic, so I won't score this review. I enjoyed it, so I
recommend it. However, I'm not sure how good a value proposition this is. The
normal retail price of $7 seems a bit high for something you will probably enjoy
for less than half an hour. I would say buy on sale. On the other hand, playing
devil's advocate, putting a price on art seems like folly. This could be the
Mona Lisa for all I know and I'm talking about how you probably won't enjoy it
for more than 30 minutes and $7 USD seems too high.
Rate ?/10. Wish I could listen to my own tunes. I say buy on sale, I bought it
for a little over $2 and that seems like a good deal to me for what I
experienced. But then again, what do I know.