MECHLAB press kit

Factsheet


Title	MECHLAB
Developer	Schreyer Data & Automation LLC
Based in	Mankato, Minnesota, USA
Platform	Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S (Meta Horizon Store)
Release	Free playable demo: coming soon (date to be announced). Full game: Q1 2027 (Coming Soon, wishlist now)
Price	Demo: free. Full game: TBA
Genre	VR mech battler: build, launch, fight
Players	Single-player; online 1v1 (full game)
Play style	Stationary, seated or standing; Touch controllers
Comfort	Comfortable (the viewpoint never moves)
Languages	English
Build	0.41.x
Store pages	Full game: https://www.meta.com/experiences/mechlab/1429033505408598/
Website	https://collin-schreyer.github.io/mechlab-site
Press contact	collin.schreyer@gmail.com
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One-liner

Build a toy-sized battle mech with your own hands, fire it into the arena from a capsule cannon, and fight from ringside.

Short description (50 words)

MECHLAB is a VR robot battler for Meta Quest. Snap together a toy-sized mech on a physical workbench, aim a first-person capsule cannon to launch it into the arena, then fight from ringside with a fighting-game HUD, a live stadium big screen and a killer's-eye kill cam after every K.O.

Description

MECHLAB is about the joy of building something small and watching it fight big.

It starts on a workbench. You pick parts off a tabletop deck with your own hands (guns, bombs, homing pods, legs and bodies) and snap them onto a toy-sized mech on a turntable. A stats tablet updates as you build, and the mech itself reacts to every new part: it looks at its new arm cannon, tests its new legs and blinks at you.

Then you launch it. Every round starts at a first-person capsule cannon: you aim at a landing spot in the arena, fire, and your mech bursts out of the capsule ready to fight.

The fights happen in front of you, from ringside. You drive your mech from the rail with a fighting-game HUD while a stadium big screen broadcasts the match. In the VS intro your mech stands on a pedestal and mirrors your real head and arm movements. After every K.O., the big screen rewinds and plays a killer's-eye kill cam.

MECHLAB is a toy-robot battler built for VR, where the part you hold in your hand is the part you fight with.

Features

Build it by hand. 30+ parts across guns, bombs, pods, legs and bodies, snapped on at a physical workbench. The mech reacts to every change.
Launch it. Aim a first-person capsule cannon and fire your mech into the arena.
Fight from ringside. A fighting-game HUD, a live big screen, VS intros where your mech mirrors you, and a kill cam after every K.O. Best of three.
Quick Battle. Random builds, any arena, 1v1 up to 3v3 and 1v4 team battles with right-stick lock-on.
Rival Ladder. SPARKY, BOLT, HALO, VIPER and the illegal champion KING CROWN.
Online 1v1. LAN now, internet rooms coming.
Story chapter. The Haven district, a sewer and pipe infiltration, a security test-pit 2v2 and an EDEN 1v3 ambush.
Six arenas.
Skyline Training Deck
Haven Freight Yard
EDEN Foundry (pits)
Hardlight Cube (holographic)
Assembly Line (conveyors, presses and shredders)
Reactor Core (laser sweepers, vents and overload switches)
Comfortable. A stationary viewpoint, playable seated or standing.

What's in the free demo

All of Chapter 1, fully voiced: the friendly match with Dex, a sponsor's exhibition that goes strangely wrong, and the break-in below the tower (about 60–90 minutes)
Quick Battle in three arenas (Skyline Training Deck, Hardlight Cube, Assembly Line), 1v1 and 2v2
The first two ladder rivals, SPARKY and BOLT
The workbench garage with a starter set of 16 parts

Downloads

Download the press kit (zip)

Includes 2560×1440 screenshots, key art (landscape, square, portrait, hero), the logo on a transparent background, the app icon and this factsheet. The trailer is here (MP4).

A hand holds a pair of robot legs over the parts deck; the Vanguard mech waits on its turntable next to the MECH STATUS tablet.

VS intro in the Hardlight Cube: your Vanguard and the illegal champion KING CROWN on spotlit pedestals.

Mirror mode: on the VS pedestal your mech raises both arms, copying the player.

LAUNCH! The capsule cannon in the player's hand fires the mech into the Hardlight Cube arena.

FIGHT! Ringside at the Skyline Training Deck, with the fighting-game HUD and the stadium big screen.

After a K.O. the arena rewinds and the big screen plays a killer's-eye KILL CAM replay.

A 2 vs 2 team battle on the Assembly Line: lock-on brackets on the target, presses and conveyors below.

Reactor Core: laser sweepers, vents and a shield bubble in a 3 vs 3 fight.

Story mode: the Tower B2 security test pit, 2 vs 2 against guard mechs.

The big screen's broadcast camera catches the Vanguard firing in the Hardlight Cube.

Team

MECHLAB is made by Schreyer Data & Automation, a one-person studio in Mankato, Minnesota (design, code and art)

Assets

Screenshots: 2560×1440 PNG ()
Key art:
landscape, square and portrait
hero banner
logo on a transparent background
app icon
Trailer: 1080p MP4 ()

All of the above is in the downloadable zip on the press page.

You may use these assets in coverage of MECHLAB.

Legal

AI disclosure

MECHLAB uses AI-generated content: 3D models (Meshy); voices, sound effects and music (ElevenLabs); some 2D art (OpenAI). Code was written with AI assistants.

Contact

Press, keys and interviews: collin.schreyer@gmail.com