Greetings owners of CONSORTIUM 2014:

This is the last news post that will be made in this community hub. A cross promotion post is going to be following up this one with links to games, including a brand new updated version of this game.

The original Source Engine build of CONSORTIUM has now officially been retired.

Coming soon - CONSORTIUM Remastered.

Each and everyone of you can play the Beta of CONSORTIUM Remastered, right now. Here's how:

1) Right click on CONSORTIUM 2014 and click "Properties"
2) Click on Betas
3) Enter the following password into the field: 4Owners0fCons0rtium0nly

Enjoy!

Namaste,

--iDGi[idgi1.ca]

“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.”
― Charles Kettering

Happy 21 day to all!


There has been a last minute delay to enable us to take care of a few recently discovered issues, but CONSORTIUM VR really is coming to Quest 2 this Friday[www.oculus.com]…

Today, we are granting early Beta access to the Quest 2 build of the game to folks who have opted in.

Do you have a Quest 2 and want early access to the Beta? Hop into the iDGi Discord server[discord.gg], go to the “announcements” channel for February 13th and click the “VR” emoji. Note this is a call out ONLY for Quest 2 device owners, not for PC-VR.

If you would like to learn more about the project, you can listen to an interview we did about the project to Sci-Fi radio…some amazing things are said about CONSORTIUM VR by them - check it out! https://scifi.radio/2023/02/17/on-the-event-horizon-gregory-mcmartin-ryan-sheffer-consortium-vr/

Back to polishing and fixing for us…

Namaste,

--iDGi[idgi1.ca]

“Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.”
― Amit Kalantri

Happy New Year 21 day to all!


Please consider helping us share the following announce trailer video far and wide across the internet:

We will be sharing our Beta to the public via the Meta Quest 2 [www.oculus.com] AppLab on February 21st. We are new to VR and want to carefully ease into this brand new market. We aim to ensure that we address all core player concerns during our final polishing rounds.

When we reach CONSORTIUM VR v1.0 later this year, we will be releasing it right here on Steam, for PCVR:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1428880/CONSORTIUM_VR

This will be largely similar to the Quest 2 game but with the addition of big graphical options such as volumetric clouds, fully dynamic lights and shadows.

To all of you owners of CONSORTIUM (2014) that are not into VR - worry not, a big FREE update will be coming for you later this year. A new store-page for CONSORTIUM Remastered will arrive sometime around when V1.0 of CONSORTIUM VR launches here on Steam. All CONSORTIUM (2014) owners will receive the Remastered version for free.

More info about V.O.I.C.E. and about CONSORTIUM VR will be coming over the next few weeks. Until then, it’s back to the dev caves for us!

Namaste,

--iDGi[idgi1.ca]

“Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.”
– Guy Kawasaki

Happy Winter Solstice 21 day everybody!


With iDGi-1 being at it’s most efficient time of the year due to the winter solstice, we are thrilled to share that a freak accident of sorts caused a content breakthrough with the Virtual Trainer. Here is a brief vid browsing the new VT scenarios with the panel along with one other snippet at the end, appropriate for the season.


Trailer making for VR games is tricky business. The truth is that we’ve all been testing, fixing and polishing the VR game[www.idgi1.ca] incessantly, and we’ve gotten a little behind on the marketing side of things.

That being said, we’re now ready to say that in precisely 1 month’s time, on January 21st, 2023, we will be officially announcing iDGi's first VR Interactive Cinema game. When the countdown on this page[www.idgi1.ca] ends, the announce trailer will be viewable.

When we next see each other...you will all *finally* know what we are bringing to VR.

Happy Holidays and Namaste to alll!

--iDGi[idgi1.ca]

“Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”
– Steve Jobs

Happy 21 day everyone,


The Announce Trailer for our VR INTERACTIVE CINEMA[www.idgi1.ca] production is getting close to done. The front-end is feeling pretty good now. Credits are almost done. We’ve been continually testing, fixing and polishing the whole thing, but with a particular emphasis on on the ending and beginning.

Today marks 2 years since we’ve started updating you all each and every month on the 21st. It’s also been just over a decade since we first revealed the initial glimpse of CONSORTIUM. Here is a very brief look of our game development efforts over all this time. Wait for a never before seen glimpse of Consortium: THE TOWER’s Act 2 at the end.

With a bit of luck, we’ll be releasing the Announce Trailer before the December holidays and you’ll all finally realize what we’ve accomplished for VR…

To all of you in the USA, we wish you a wonderful thanksgiving!

Namaste,

--iDGi[idgi1.ca]

“Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it’s patience and perseverance that get you there.”
– Ernie J Zelinksi

Happy 21 day everyone,


Our VR INTERACTIVE CINEMA[www.idgi1.ca] production has now technically, FINALLY reached early BETA! However – contrary to what we told you last month, we still aren’t ready to let new playtesters in just yet. We’re a very small team and can only move so fast and work on so much at one time.

We’ve been working on things like the game ending, credits, the front-end and the announce teaser trailer video. Once this video is ready, we’ll properly announce the project and make our store pages live! THEN we’ll let in the first wave of beta testers…

Here’s a new little glimpse of something else we’ve been working on via iDGi-1:



Calling all VR game streamers!

We are now actively looking for no more than 21 folks who are into streaming VR games, with the only requirement being that said streamer must have an audience of at least 100 subscribers. A mixed reality setup using Liv would be ideal!

Everyone chosen will be gifted a DEMO copy of our VR INTERACTIVE CINEMA[www.idgi1.ca] game. Streamers will get the first chance to put on a performance for their audience unlike any they’ve ever done (we promise!). You will also be the first to experience what we hope will be seen as a brand new genre of VR game.

Twitch streamers will get the chance to play with our game’s unique Twitch integration that we’ve taken to calling “Breaking The Fifth Wall”.

Hop into our Discord[discord.gg] and let us know if you are a VR game steamer (Meta Quest 2 and/or PCVR), or know someone that may be interested. Or, perhaps reach out to your favourite streamer and plead with them to get on our list. ;-)

To be considered for the “VR INTERACTIVE CINEMA Streamer List of 21”, simply shoot an email to support@interdimensionalgames.com with the subject line “VR INTERACTIVE CINEMA Streamer List of 21”. Please include in your email a link to your channel where you do VR streaming (Twitch page, YouTube channel, etc).

So what exactly IS VR Interactive Cinema, you ask? Use your imagination and you just might not be too far off…

Once again until next month, it’s back to the dev caves with us!

Namaste,

--iDGi[idgi1.ca]

“War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination”
– Bill Moyers

Happy 21 day everyone,


A new build of Whispers From The Rift[www.idgi1.ca] has just released to everyone who has access to the closed PC beta testing of our interactive novel and direct prequel to CONSORTIUM:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1099900/Whispers_From_The_Rift/

There are now 30 additional brainscan “illustrations” to be discovered throughout the narrative web of Whispers From The Rift. There are more brainscans to come, but the lead transcriber feels that only one more release will be needed before we have ourselves a v1.0 Release candidate!

Here is one particularly interesting scan recently conducted via iDGi-1:

Head to our Discord iDGi Whispers From The Rift channel[discord.gg] to see another spoiler tagged brainscan from very late in the stream.

As for our still technically unannounced VR INTERACTIVE CINEMA[www.idgi1.ca] production, we are now working on the final set of tasks for finishing the experience. The Meta Quest 2 build is getting a big lighting improvement and we continue to work through important polishing tasks and bugs as they are found.

We have relatively few remaining major production tasks remaining until we have ourselves a truly viable Beta for both SKUs (Meta Quest 2 and PCVR). We’re working through them all as best as we are able. Those that have requested closed beta access to the VR game: know that you’ll receive your beta keys via Discord messages once we reach this milestone.

Once again until next month, it’s back to work for us.

Namaste,

--iDGi[idgi1.ca]

“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.”
– Mother Teresa

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21,

--iDGi[idgi1.ca]

“21212121 2121 212121 2121, 21 2121212121 2121 2121!”
– 212121 21 2121212121

Greetings 212121s,

Today, we have a continuation of some technical details of the C-3800 Consortium Command vessel.

We are happy to report that if things keep going well, within a handful of weeks we will finally reach the early Beta stage of both SKUs of our VR Interactive Cinema experience[www.idgi1.ca] ( Meta Quest 2 and PCVR ). This means that the entire VR Interactive Cinema experience is poised to be playable from beginning to end, is largely feature complete and only requires more polish and testing.

Until next month, peace and love to you all!

It’s back to work for us...

Namaste,

--iDGi[idgi1.ca]

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
– Harriet Tubman