Rick Ruiten

Technical Game Designer

Gameplay Programmer

Rick Ruiten

Technical Game Designer

Gameplay Programmer

Active Esports Arena

  • Company: PW XR
  • Role: Internship Gameplay Programmer
  • Year: '17 - '18
  • Engine: Unity

Ative Arena Esports is a virtual reality Esport game where you use your body as a controller to compete against your opponents. In AEA you play 1 vs 1 up to 4 vs 4, competing to get to the last escape pod first, before the spaceship you find yourself on crashes into the burning hot surface of a star after 10 minutes. Using your unrestricted movement, beating puzzles, challenges and facing your opponents head on will ensure your team a higher score, and the escape pod.


During my Internship as a Game Developer we started working on a full body competitve VR game. Over the years this has been upgraded to the current Active Esports Arena with still similair designs and minigames.


We didn't have to focus on the tech side of the suit as we were working together with Manus VR, the creator of the suits. My job was to create protoypes of fun and competitive minigames.