Limitless
Teleport to any spot on the court and shoot freely. Every make and miss feeds your lifetime shooting percentages, from any range you choose.
Now in submission to the Meta Horizon Store
Backyard basketball, without chasing the ball.
Get Buckets VR is a roomscale basketball game for Meta Quest. Balls return to the rack on their own, so it is pure shooting rhythm. No artificial locomotion, no teleporting between shots, nothing to fight but your form.
- Stationary, roomscale play
- No artificial locomotion
- Balls return automatically
- Built for motion sickness comfort
Four ways to shoot
One clean shooting loop, four modes to run it in
Every mode shares the same feel: grab a ball, find your shot, let it go. What changes is the pressure around it.
Arcade
Hit a target score before time runs out. String makes together and consecutive shots bank you bonus seconds to keep the run alive.
3PT Contest
Five racks of five balls. Regular balls score 1, moneyballs score 2, and you choose which single rack is loaded with all moneyballs.
Challenge
Handbuilt trick shot levels with blockers, floating rings, angled bank boards and sweeping panels. Clear a level in 3 balls for all 3 stars.
Comfort first
Built for players who bounce off other VR games
Get Buckets VR keeps your feet planted in real space the entire time. There is no smooth locomotion, no snap turning between shots, and no chase across the court after a miss. Balls return to the rack on their own, so the only thing moving fast is the shot you just took. If motion sickness has kept you out of VR games before, this is the genre built around not having that problem.
From the devlog
Notes from the build
Technical write-ups on the physics, tooling and shipping problems behind Get Buckets VR, for players curious how it works and other developers building something similar.
Shipping Solo: the Meta Submission Checklist Nobody Tells You About
Bundle IDs are permanent, keystores can never be regenerated, Unity forgets your keystore password every session, and trademarks get flagged in store text you didn't even think was risky.
The Scoreboard Was Eating My Level
A rim mounted scoreboard that yaws to face the shooter was quietly occluding a Challenge target. I found every bad angle by raycasting a sample grid instead of walking the room myself.
Designing a Trick Shot Level With Ballistics, Not Guesswork
A Challenge level needed a bank board the player shoots past the rim and rebounds back in. I stopped eyeballing it and simulated the projectile instead.