Dark Messiah VR

Virtual reality mod for Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

Playable in a headset with Meta Quest controllers

Built in 5 days with the help of AI

Client:

Personal project

Partners:

AI: ChatGPT Astra, Claude Opus 5.5

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See the making-of

Spell and inventory menu displayed in VR, hand on fire

Description

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, Arkane Studios' game built on the Source engine, never had a virtual reality version. This mod makes it playable in a headset: the camera follows your head in stereoscopic 3D, at the resolution recommended by the headset, and a simple shortcut switches the game between the classic screen and VR.

Technically, the mod sits between the game and the graphics card (DirectX 9 → DXVK → Vulkan → OpenXR), without modifying the engine's original files. The Quest controllers replace the mouse: joystick locomotion, then handling the sword, the bow, spells and objects by hand.

Development was carried out with AI, commit after commit: 231 commits, about 21.7 hours of work, 234 game launches and 202 VR sessions over 5 days. The making-of retraces the whole build, with the videos recorded along the way.