Take Two Interactive for VR games.
Vinci Games is building Take Two Interactive for AAA VR games. We're building the next-generation ATT games for AR/VR. Blacktop Hoops is the ultimate VR basketball game and sports experience. Embark on a hoops journey in career mode, ball against bots, hang out with friends in online courts, or climb the rankings in competitive pickup games. Design your perfect avatar with millions of unique combinations. Do you have what it takes to become the GOAT? 🐐 The company is led by CEO Nathan Ventura who led world-class developer programs at Oculus, Google, and Unity and CTO Maciej Szcześnik who was the lead gameplay designer at CD Projekt Red for the award-winning Witcher series.
Jobs at Blacktop Hoops by Vinci Games
Active Founders
Nathaniel Ventura, Founder
Nathan Ventura is the co-founder and CEO of Vinci Games, which he started with Maciej Szcześnik in 2021. Nathan oversees product, marketing, and business development for the company. He spent his career leading world-class developer programs at Facebook, Google, and Unity. Currently he is focused on building the next generation of AAA competitive sports for virtual reality with Blacktop Hoops.
Maciej Szcześnik, Founder
Maciej Szcześnik is the co-founder and CTO of Vinci Games. He is responsible for game design and development. He studied physics (BSc) and computer science (MSc) and started his game dev career in 2004. Former lead gameplay designer on The Witcher 1, 2, and 3 at CD Projekt Red and Lead Designer at 11 Bit Studios. Former Vice-Rector and author of Video Game Development course at Warsaw Film School. Maciej started working on VR games and apps in 2015. Won Unity Neon Challenge in 2018.
Company Launches
TL;DR
Blacktop Hoops is the ultimate VR basketball game and sports experience. Embark on a hoops journey in career mode, ball against bots, hang out with friends in online courts, or climb the rankings in competitive pickup games. Design your perfect avatar with millions of unique combinations. Do you have what it takes to become the GOAT? 🐐
Blacktop Hoops has exited Beta and has launched launched on Meta Quest, Pico, and Steam and is available for purchase for $29.99!
🥽 Play on Meta Quest:
🏀WATCH THE BLACKTOP HOOPS TRAILER HERE
Meta Quest has a similar trajectory to the iPhone but has 60x less apps per user available. There is a massive gap in high-quality games and application on the platform.
The most popular and highest retention genres for VR currently on Quest are competitive first person shooters, social virtual reality experiences, and sports/fitness.
No one has built a truly all-in-one sports game like NBA 2K, Madden, or FIFA for VR with a career mode, casual lobbies, and ranked competitive play.
⛹🏿♂️Solution⛹🏻♀️
Blacktop Hoops was a breakout hit on Meta’s App Lab as the #1 rated App Lab title with over 16,000 reviews, a 4.9 rating and over 1 million players across Steam and Quest pre-launch.
In Blacktop Hoops, players partake in an epic campaign mode featuring 12 unique streetball legends across four iconic streetball courts in Oakland, Los Angeles, New York and Athens. At the end of their journey to become the GOAT, players have a final showdown against world dunk champion Jordan Kilganon.
For multiplayer fans, players can hit the courts in casual 1vs1, 2vs2, 3vs3 or 4vs4 matches or climb the rankings in skill-based matchmaking across 9 ranks and 21 divisions.
One of the biggest additions to Blacktop Hoops is its new customizable avatar system. Players have access to over 600 customizations including body type, faces, skin color, shirts, emotes, sneakers, glasses, shirts and more. Players can mix and match cosmetics to build their perfect avatar with millions of possible combinations.
Blacktop Hoops will also be coming soon to Playstation VR 2 and Apple Vision pro.
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In addition, if you know of any consumer brands (i.e Nike, Adidas), location-based entertainment partners/arcades, or athletes that would be interested in partnership with the game please send me an email at n@vinci-games.com.
Thank you for the support!