Natural Magic is Now live on the Oculus Store and Steam

Waltz of the Wizard has now been updated with our first major expansion — Natural Magic. Now live on the Oculus Store and SteamVR, with Extended Edition now renamed as Waltz of the Wizard: Natural Magic.

Release trailer for Waltz of the Wizard: Natural Magic.

The road so far

This is the largest production in our long history. We founded Aldin in 2013 to create believable reality experiences — worlds that are truly designed around the concept of you physically being present in them, as if they were reality. We are proud to have come so far, and we can still hardly believe that we have the privilege to help pioneer this amazing new medium.

The first simulated magic system for virtual reality is now yours to control.

This is in no small part thanks to the wonderful VR community of early adopters and users of Trial of the Rift Drifter, Asunder and most recently Waltz of the Wizard, who have supported us throughout the years. This is why we are giving Natural Magic to all our existing users free of charge, while the base price of Waltz of the Wizard will from now on increase from $9.99 to $19.99 to reflect the scope and breadth of content we are adding.

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A brief look at what’s included

In Natural Magic, we pushed the limits of what is possible with current VR hardware (and ourselves as developers). Of the many new-to-VR features we are shipping today, here are few to mention; New magic physics engine which uses natural user motions and mic input to simulate magic and make it feel real, using an advanced particle based approach. This allows us to deliver never-before seen dynamics in interactions between the user’s presence, magic particles and the virtual world, to deliver an extremely diverse simulation of fun situations and events to enjoy over and over again.

Conjure, cast and conduct magic as if it were real.

This is just the first step in exploring the entirely new territory of simulated magic and we are very excited to keep developing it with more advanced gestures, interactions and overall functionality. We’re also introducing new advanced physical characters that can react believably in boundless number of ways to various situations and combat scenarios. Lastly we’ve created a new procedural based world-building system with believable reflective environmental lighting and immense flexibility going forward. All of these features and many more will be expanded on in upcoming updates.

Visit the friendly Courtyard to get the hang of natural magic.

The Larvops say hello.

We hope you enjoy

We truly hope you find Natural Magic continues to deliver on making fantasy feel like reality — and we look forward to hearing from you. There are a ton of things in Natural Magic, including the natural magic system itself, and we’re sure you’ll both find a lot is amazing, a lot could be better and then dream up countless ideas on how it can expand going forward that we look forward to hearing about. This is just the beginning and the future is bright — thank you all for the journey to date.

-The Aldin Team