GestureMancerKing

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  魔法练习场——ai使用钢钻术和冰枪术

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  魔法练习场——玩家用潜泳躲过穿霄云箭

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  魔法练习场——玩家召唤流星火坠

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  魔法练习场——ai使用开山神斧

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  魔法练习场——ai使用急射冰枪

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  魔法练习场——玩家用土堆挡住钢刺双龙

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  vr联机——玩家用横击术打水球术

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  魔法练习场——玩家用开山神斧

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  mr联机——敌人用气波术攻击玩家蓄阳气

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  魔法练习场——玩家用雷霆霹雳

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  vr联机——玩家用冰枪术

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  mr联机——玩家用钢钻术破防反弹

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  mr联机——玩家用横击术破防土堆

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  vr联机——玩家用火球术

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  vr联机——玩家用木盾挡住钢钻术

Inspiration

GestureMancer King started from a simple frustration: most VR games still reward reaction speed, locomotion, or controller muscle memory—FPS aim, Beat Saber timing, Gorilla Tag movement. We wanted something else.

What if a VR duel felt closer to rock-paper-scissors and poker than a shooter?

• Hands only — no controllers. Every spell is a real gesture.
• Mind games, not twitch — players act in the same turn, then resolve instantly. You win by reading the opponent, predicting their qi and spell, not by who clicks faster.
• Seated & fair — no roomscale sprinting, so less motion sickness and a more even playing field.
• VR and MR — play inside a virtual arena or in your real room with passthrough. The rules stay the same; the space changes.
• A new lane — not FPS, not rhythm, not physics climbing. A gesture-driven, turn-synced strategy battler built for Meta Quest / Meta VR.

The fantasy is simple: two (or more) spellcasters face each other, charge yin/yang qi, open a camp, and outthink each other with bare hands.

What it does

Players cast attack, defense, and special magics through hand poses. Each round is a simultaneous decision—charge, strike, shield, steal, or open a 2-qi camp—then the collision rules resolve who breaks whom. AI teammates and opponents can cooperate or mind-game you the same way a human would. Cosmetics and Meta identity plug into the social loop, but the core is always: read, commit, resolve.

How we built it

• Unity + Meta XR / Interaction SDK for hand tracking and seated VR/MR play
• A large gesture → magic system (0-qi shields, 1-qi tools, 2-qi camps) with explicit collision / weaken / reflect rules
• Netcode multiplayer so remote players share the same turn rhythm
• Custom Spellcaster AI for practice, teaching chapters, and 2v2 cooperation mind games
• Store / Alpha channels for invite testing on real Quest hardware

Challenges we ran into

• Making hand poses reliable enough that “the spell you meant” is the spell that fires—without controllers as a crutch
• Teaching a deep rule set (qi types, camps, weaken, steal, shields) without turning the first five minutes into a manual
• Keeping multiplayer fair and readable: same-turn commits, clear feedback, no “who had better Wi-Fi aim”
• Designing for seated / airplane-seat play while still feeling dramatic in VR and usable in MR passthrough
• Shipping something that feels like a new genre, not a reskin of existing Quest hits

What we learned

Hands-first only works if the rules do the talking. When every player decides at the same time, skill shifts from reaction to prediction and composure. Building for Quest also forced us to care about cold start, short satisfying rounds, and interactions that work in a two-foot radius—exactly the kind of seated, hands-first experience this medium is best at.

What's next

Polish the first five minutes, deepen spectator-readable mind games, keep expanding meaningful hand interactions and MR modes, and push a significant update build for the competition Competition channel so judges can invite-play the latest cut.

Built With

• android
• c#
• hand-tracking
• horizon
• meta
• meta-xr-sdk
• oculus-interaction-sdk
• unity
• unity-netcode-for-gameobjects