Interview: Flat2VR's Elliott Tate On Kicking Off The Spark Initiative With FlatOut 4 VR

FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR is the first official release from the Flat2VR Spark initiative. Spark is a program spearheaded by Flat2VR Chief Creative Officer & Chief Technical Officer, Elliott Tate, to pair experienced VR modders with game developers interested in porting their games to virtual reality. We spoke with Tate about the origins of Spark, how Flat2VR balances Spark projects vs its in-house games, and the unique challenges behind bringing FlatOut 4: Total Insanity to VR. This is a transcript of the video interview , edited for clarity:

Interview: Flat2VR's Elliott Tate On Kicking Off The Spark Initiative With FlatOut 4 VR. UploadVR: Okay so before we get into it, we're supposed to talk about FlatOut 4: Total Insanity VR, but before we get to that, this is the first release from the Flat2VR Spark program. So for those who don't know what Spark is, can you kind of explain what that program is? Elliott Tate: If you know how we began with Flat2VR, it was just passion projects on the side, and it's really incredible how when you are just passionate about wanting to see your favorite games in VR and you connect with the right people, just what you can do. So when Beat Saber first came out, I started the Beat Saber modding group [with] a similar goal of "let's get talented people to build something cool here" and it really just exploded and helped pave the way for that. Flat2V...