
They counted cotton bollworms in Egypt, Sudan and Iran, tagged eels in New Zealand, owned a fishing business on Lake Kariba in central Africa and ran a rabbit farm in one of Scotland’s remotest corners. Together they embarked on a peripatetic journey living in a dozen countries.

She met her husband in a township in Zambia. Those experiences in the 1960s awakened a wanderlust that has remained insistent throughout her life and kept her travelling. She travelled from England on the Trans-Siberian Railway and then by Russian boat down the China coast to Hong Kong. A Township Tale is launching on Oculus Quest 1 + 2 on July 16th.Gill Shaddick (nee Stevenson) left Britain aged twenty-one to take up a job in Hong Kong. We’re looking forward to jumping in with our friends in this charming VR world. “We began the process last year, and now on July 15 we’ll be launching A Township Tale on Oculus Quest, bringing to life a fantasy we’ve had since we were children: To truly embody the RPG characters we play in a fantastical world.”Ī Township Tale is currently available free-to-play on PC VR. Cross-play between Quest and PC is not supported yet, but plans to support one-way cross-play are in the works, which will allow PC players to connect to Quest servers.

“From the moment the Quest was announced, the requests from fans started to roll in for a dedicated version of our game, even though the thought of delivering a world as expansive as A Township Tale to a standalone device seemed crazy,” said Boramy Unn, game director, Alta. The game also features specialised weapons, levelling abilities and play-styles, allowing you to form unique parties as you search through the deepest reaches of dark caverns. You can also explore dangerous areas and recover crafting materials to improve their gear.

You can become master professionals in your new town by taking up the mantle of blacksmiths, woodcutters, miners, archers and warriors. With so many announcements at E3 over the last week, you’d be forgiven for not noticing the good news that online VR RPG A Township Tale from Aussie developer Alta is coming soon to Oculus Quest.Ī Township Tale is a bit of a hybrid of RPGs and survival games, set in a medieval fantasy world where players band together with up to eight friends on a virtual server to take on professions and craft equipment while they explore the dangerous world before them, all in the immersive way that only VR can provide.
