Step into the boots of a young Breton sailor at at the dawn of the american revolutionary war and discover authentic life aboard a French warship. An immersive VR experience based on the true history of the Royal Navy.
Embody Pierre, a 16 year old Breton enrolling himself as a ship’s boy on the French royal frigate la Belle Poule seeking for adventures.
Through the pages of his diary, he discovers the fascinating and unforgiving world of the sea in the 18th century.
From your boat in Brest to an epic chase with an English ship of the line, experience the adventure that will transform Pierre from a land novice to a seasoned sailor in the French Royal Navy.
Battery deck, poop deck, large chamber, fully explore a royal frigate from the bilge to the topgallant! Relive as never the immensity of these lost giants of the seas, surrounded by hundreds of sailors at the maneuver!
Embark on a historical reconstruction of the Belle Poule frigate. Alongside archaeologists and historians, have a unique glimpse of the most accurate virtual ship reconstuction to date.
Learn the true navigation techniques of the time. Handle ropes, sails and navigation instruments like a true king's sailor. Use the wind and the currents to lead your ship to victory !
Master 18th century naval artillery. Load, aim and fire the cannons. Experience the agitation and crash of broadsides from the gun deck!
Share meals and life moments with the crew, traditions and living conditions of sailors. Experience a total and unique immersion in the daily life of 18th century sailors.
Take your place among the crew! Officers, boatswains, soldiers, sailors. Interact with the crowd of sailors, discover the hierarchies and explore the different roles available to you!
La Royale VR uses the latest virtual reality innovations to create the most authentic maritime historical experience ever developed.
Built with Unreal Engine and Houdini, the game offers photorealistic graphics and revolutionary maritime physics, while scrupulously respecting the historical reality of 1777.
After more than eight years of existence, the Black Cog Visual Effects studio evolves to give birth to Black Cog Entertainment.
Passionate about video games, we are convinced that this medium has brought some of the most important artistic works of recent decades.
Against the current of an industrial vision of game production that has reached its limits, we assume a creation on a human scale, connected to a real community and carrying a true requirement, both in terms of visual and narrative content as well as the gaming experience.
Our goal is to propose a different, exciting work that corresponds to the game we would like to play.
The studio’s management constitutes the operational core of the team and has been responsible for the production of the project on a daily basis for several years. To date, all the assets and elements of the technical and artistic game have been designed within Black Cog, without subcontracting.
Our vision of creation is also driven by an environmental commitment and a choice of sobriety. Contemporary digital "industrial" creation is done at a cost, that of an ever greater consumption of hardware, computing power, electrical consumption, remote resources such as clouds, servers etc... We consider that the dematerialized whole is not a solution and leads to an inflation of consumption which is masked by the "cloud". Thanks to our expertise of more than 15 years in cinema and audiovisual, we can create differently giant studios and get out of the logic of permanent outsourcing.
Moreover, we consider that the gigantic budgets associated with these manufacturing methods are incompatible with our environmental convictions and out of step with the reality of the challenges that our societies will face in the future. We are convinced that controlled development costs are a key to better designed, more honest and better developed games.
We also believe that games should be accessible to as many players as possible. Thus game optimization, which has been an aspect sometimes neglected in recent years, is an essential element for us. Our game is developed on representative machines of the average PC gamer configuration and is designed to offer a breathtaking experience on so-called mid-range cards.