Directive Games, a mobile game start-up established in 2014, is headquartered in Hong Kong and has offices at Shanghai and Reykjavík, Iceland. It mainly engages in the development of hardcore mobile games and back-end services for developers of these games, with Hong Kong and Shanghai offices responsible for game R&D and Reykjavic office developing back-end tools.

Directive Games specializes in VR/AR games, and has released several VR/AR titles including Super Kaiju and The Machines. Super Kaiju, which marked its entry into the VR market, was launched on Steam, Oculus, and PSVR shortly after going live, outshining the competition and creating a sensation in China’s VR market.

Gauntlet is the latest VR game from Directive Games based on the science fiction adventure film Ready Player One, which was directed by the renowned Academy Awards winner Steven Spielberg. HTC Vive Studios is the producer, publisher, and owner of Ready Player One: OASIS Beta, a Massively Multiplayer Online Simulation Game based on the same IP, which consists of several game modules developed by a number of AR/VR game companies including Directives Games. As one of the main developers, Directive Games was responsible for creating an add-on titled Gauntlet in addition to building the expandable virtual world “OASIS,” which is envisaged to contain hundreds or even thousands of game scenarios to entertain players – just like the virtual game universe in the movie.

Ready Player One: OASIS Beta imagines the year 2045 as a wasteland where people escape the perils of real life by indulging in a VR (virtual reality) playground called the OASIS. The OASIS creator played by Mark Rylance announces before his death that the first to find his hidden Easter egg will inherit his fortune of billions of dollars, thus begins the largest ever treasure hunt. The protagonist Wade Watts (known in OASIS as Parzival), played by Tye Sheridan, is joined by billions of competitors on this curious yet dangerous journey.