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Posts by Daniel Sproll

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Ready to travel somewhere new? 🌏
This is Wat Arun; a breathtaking landmark, now yours to experience and puzzle together!

Play Puzzling Places now on #Steam!

#indiegame #puzzlegames

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"Puzzling Places": VR-Hit aus Deutschland gibt es jetzt als Bildschirmversion Der VR-Klassiker „Puzzling Places" erscheint in einer Version, die für PC und Steam Deck optimiert ist. Macht die 3D-Puzzelei auch am Bildschirm Spaß?

Der VR-Klassiker „Puzzling Places" erscheint in einer Version, die für PC und Steam Deck optimiert ist. Macht die 3D-Puzzelei auch am Bildschirm Spaß? #Spiele

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Finally Puzzling Places is out on Steam and for the first time playable for anyone without a VR headset.

Give it a try, leave your review, PP is here to stay, it’s a beautiful pearl, a peaceful corner bustling with sound, music, voices and echoes.

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Puzzling Places is on popular upcoming on Steam 🕺💃I am slightly anxious for the launch as usual! 😅Wish us luck and leave us a review ♥️

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Our game Puzzling Places is coming to Steam on April 9th. It will give you hours of flow and relaxtion. If that's your kind of thing share and give it a review on launch day, because it will help with the algorithmn. store.steampowered.com/app/3530820/...

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Puzzling Places - 3D Jigsaw Sim on Steam A relaxed 3D jigsaw puzzle game about building detailed miniature dioramas of places from around the world.

The game is called @puzzlingplaces.bsky.social, it‘s a chill 3D jigsaw puzzle game for VR and 2D where you build cool locations from around the world 🌎!

It’s coming to #Steam on April 9th and already available for Quest, Pico and PSVR2 🧩

store.steampowered.com/app/3530820/...

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give us a wishlist maybe if you like puzzles thanks? #indiedev

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It’s time for #wishlistwednesday!

Build 3D jigsaw puzzle dioramas of real-world locations brought to life with little stories and animations in Puzzling Places, coming to Steam April 9th! 💛

#Steam #gaming #indiegames #vrgaming

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🚨 VR GAMES SHOWCASE RETURNS MARCH 24! 🚨

😲 Updates on 20+ titles
😍 New info on The Boys, Wrath, Exoshock & more
😏 Games for Quest, PS VR2 & PC VR
😱 A surprise reveal we've been dying to show you
🧐 9am PT on YouTube, Pre-Show 8:40am PT.

Watch The Trailer & Subscribe: buff.ly/a1J8Oye

1 month ago 31 11 0 13
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In preparation for the upcoming release of Puzzling Place as a desktop game, here’s a 40 min dev chat about the sound of the game. Its echoing voices, street musicians, and the fantastic consequences of being de facto quiet and focused in your listening experience.

1 month ago 10 4 1 0
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VR Forever | 2026 Submission Form // Hosted by Creature + Future Friends // Contrary to what you heard, VR is actually NOT dead. VR Forever is coming back after a successful first edition last year and this time we are open for submi...

Contrary to what you heard, VR is actually NOT dead. VR Forever is coming back after a successful first edition and submissions are open now:

forms.gle/fvU8BhqVPYfo...

Submission Deadline: March 31st

#VRForever is hosted by @creaturedotpage.bsky.social and @futurefriendsgames.com #VR #gamdev

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Working on a little shader for @puzzlingplaces.bsky.social to allow peeking through walls to puzzle interiors. The shader part is a cone in view space, the tough part is mirroring everythign in CPU so that raycasts go through colliders where ever pixels are hidden

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We have a release date ! The largest and most thorough field recording compilation in any games ever made is coming out on the 9th of April.

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Get those #PCVR headsets ready - or your #Steamdeck - or controller - or even just your mouse and keyboard!

From April 9th you'll be able to puzzle in pretty much anyway your want because @puzzlingplaces.bsky.social is coming to @steampowered.com for both VR and flatscreen🥳🎉🧩

❤️ Wishlist Now!❤️

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so sorry to hear! Utmost respect for what you and the team built over the years and fingers crossed that this will only be a temporary setback and that everybody falls on their feet!

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Sounds similar to our photogrammetry loadout back in the days! We used the Lowepro Tactical 350 I think. Was pretty happy with it overall, plenty of room, customizable sections and sturdy shell

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🎉 Puzzling Places is joining the very first #VRForever Steam event, kicking off Sept 18th! ✨

Celebrate the best of VR gaming and dive into relaxing, satisfying puzzles that bring real-world places to life. Don’t miss it! 🧩

#vrgaming #puzzlingplaces #Steam

7 months ago 13 5 0 0
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot - in the end the real singularity will us losing ourselves in our own reflection

8 months ago 3 0 0 0

if you want to go 3D, @puzzlingplaces.bsky.social also supports co-located MR multiplayer with automatic room sync 🙂

10 months ago 5 1 1 0
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Hey VR/MR devs 👋

We need your 📈 DATA 📉 for our Reboot Blue talk;

'The game has changed: VR games marketing in 2025'

- All data you provide is completely anonymous
- We'll post a summary of the findings after Reboot
- Should only take you 5 mins
- We'd be very appreciative
- Form below 👇

1 year ago 17 14 1 1

been slipping on that augment ring too often…

1 year ago 3 0 1 0
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I am not Ready for The Future of the Game Industry How prepared am I for the ways AI might reshape the game industry in the next few years? As a game developer and programmer, I’ve been…

I have been thinking through how unprepared I am for what could be the future of the game industry, brought about by AI and other dynamics.
In this post I go over what current economics of games and toilet paper have in common, and how to maybe adopt:
shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/i-am-not-rea...

1 year ago 6 2 0 0

we are slowly building better systems for it so we can hopefully do more in the future - they are super fun but also do take quite a bit more time and resources to make 🙂

1 year ago 3 0 1 0

haha, the model as a hat part is essential - especially in multiplayer sessions 😄

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Puzzling Places on Meta Quest New FREE Halloween Puzzle "Dance of the Damned" out now! Sort, puzzle, and relax by building dioramas of beautiful places from around the world—Rated #1 puzzling game in VR! Puzzle by yourself or wi...

aaand lastly, here's the link to lovely game! 🧩
If you enjoy cozy games, like exploring beautiful places from around the world and enjoy playing with cute 3D dioramas check it out! It's on Quest, PSVR2 and Pico.

And for all fellow devs: always down for a key swap, just DM me =)

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Bringing a Game from the Quest Store to the Apple VisionOS App Store with the CEO of Puzzling Places
Bringing a Game from the Quest Store to the Apple VisionOS App Store with the CEO of Puzzling Places YouTube video by XR Bootcamp

Here's another fun talk I gave about designing for the Apple Vision Pro & how we used something called the Octopus paradigm for it - just so you know what you are signing up for 😛🐙

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

For posting, I'll mainly stick to VR / MR / Spatial Computing / [whatever is the mot du jour], gaming, running a studio and generally work related stuff. Also still warming up after growing a bit catatonic on Twitter, so taking it slow^^

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Accessing Reality Through VR | Daniel Sproll | TEDxBonn
Accessing Reality Through VR | Daniel Sproll | TEDxBonn YouTube video by TEDx Talks

Hi, Bsky, intro time! 👋

I'm Daniel, CEO of Realities.io, working on Puzzling Places, relaxing 3D jigsaw puzzling of real places in #VR!

I've been in VR for over a decade, first as cognitive scientist, then UX designer and eventually as founder - here the TEDx talk as summary 😄

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excellent talk, thanks for sharing!

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nDreams is having a mixer on thursday and there are some folks meeting in a pub before and after

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