Polyarc today announced Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss, its new fast-paced action-strategy battler, will be the first game built in the Unreal Engine to launch on Apple Vision Pro through Apple Arcade with cross-platform support across Apple, Meta, and Steam. Glassbreakers is set to release on November 13 for $19.99, with Meta pre-orders opening today.
Meta players receive a 20% off pre-order discount in addition to a cosmetic Founder Pack while Steam players will receive the discount at launch. Meta players wanting to try the game ahead of launch are encouraged to sign up at glassbreakersgame.com for the Glassbreakers Preview Weekend taking place October 24-26.
As part of the launch, players who participated in Glassbreakers’ App Lab, Early Access and Open Beta across Meta and Steam will receive the game and the Founder Pack—which includes an exclusive mask, banner and emblem—for free as a thank you for their support. Former Meta App Lab players will find the updated premium game experience in their library as a new App while Steam players will receive an update to the existing game in their library.
Apple Arcade members will find the game in the Apple Arcade library on launch day.
“Our goal for bringing Glassbreakers to Apple Vision Pro is to give players the ability to join their friends in a fun, immersive fast-paced strategy game regardless of what headset they own,” said Jason Tranchida, lead engineer, Polyarc. “It took a lot of work to integrate Unreal Engine with visionOS, but doing the work not only allowed us to bring Glassbreakers to Apple Vision Pro but also paves the way for other game studios to bring their Unreal Engine games to the Apple platform.”
As accurate input and advanced controls are key components of fast-paced game design, the team worked with Apple to create a one-of-a-kind experience for players. Utilizing Apple Vision Pro’s hand tracking, eye gaze and custom gesture input, players’ interactions with the Champions, board, and set pieces are on par with players using controllers on Meta and Steam platforms.
“It’s such a fun experience to use nothing but your hands and eyes to interact with your Champions,” said Danny Bulla, co-founder, Polyarc. “You feel like a wizard at work, making multiple movements in quick succession without the need for drastic arm movements. It’s a completely new way to play games and I can’t wait for Apple Vision Pro players to xperience this themselves in a couple of weeks.”
The team did a lot of work over the past year optimizing the Unreal Engine to make Glassbreakers playable on Apple Vision Pro at the quality level Polyarc is known for. This work not only improved the engine integration into visionOS but doubled the output of the hardware allowing the game’s graphics to pop with clarity by leveraging enhanced fidelity and framerate.
“We implemented a combination of techniques like multiview, multilayering and fixed foveated rendering to optimize the performance capabilities of Unreal Engine on Apple Vision Pro,” said Tranchida. “This work gave us the room to increase fidelity and framerate which levelled up pass through, eye gaze, text, and overall visuals to a much higher quality that really showcases the power of the platform.”
Polyarc is planning to post a fork of the Unreal Engine with all the enhancements and work that went into integrating the engine with visionOS so other studios can grab the code and benefit from the work they did.
Those interested in getting more engaged in the Glassbreakers community are encouraged to check out the Polyarc Creator and Glassbreakers Vanguard programs and join the Glassbreakers Discord. Doing so opens the opportunity to participate in livestreams, get access to news and updates, receive exclusive items, game swag, and invites to special play events like the Glassbreakers Preview Weekend October 24-26, as well as Discord badges and titles reiterating their status in the community.
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