Building Virtual World
Role: Team Project: UI/UX Design + Producer + Sound Design
Tools: Figma / Sketch / Unity / Jira / Audition / Logic Pro
Time: 09/2021 — 12/2021
Building Virtual Worlds is a course at Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center. It challenges students to work quickly, creatively and collaboratively. It gives small teams of students two weeks to create a virtual world, with new groups and goals for each round. It all culminates in a public festival to hundreds of spectators
Nightnight — VR Game
Nightnight is a Virtual Reality World made for Oculus Quest 2.
A little girl is having a nightmare! You must protect her from the monster chasing her through the dreamscape maze and return her to her bed.
The theme of the 1st round is “Help A from B“ and we were tasked to make an experience of protecting a character from another character
My Responsibilities
01 Creating Sound Effects
I created multiple sound effects, including character voice, heating, background music, etc., by using adobe audition and live recording.
02 Playtest Feedback
I organized the in-class and playtest feedback which is the key indicator of user experience and enabled us to prioritize and address issues.
03 TeamWork
I cooperated with the development and creative team and attended all production meetings.
Game Mechanism
The players can use the cubes to beat back the Nightmare.
The first scene is in the girl's bedroom. Her parent fights a lot, and she always stays alone in her bedroom. We want the players to protect the girl and help her fight back the nightmare.
The second scene is in the forest. This is a form of a maze in which players need to find the hidden room for the girl to hide.
Final Video
2. Dear Ambrosia — AR Game
Dear Ambrosia is a Augmented Reality World made for Microsoft Hololens 2.
In this game, we create a tilting board game which allows players to control the main character (a marble prince) by adjusting the angle and inclination of the board. To increase our game's scope, we design the board as a two-part maze. Inside the maze, the player can collect different items and try to find the princess. Furthermore, the storyline of our game is to win the princess heart back by selecting the right gift after discovered the princess.
The theme of the 2rd round is “Naive Guest“ and we were tasked to make an experience that a naive guest can play without receiving any instruction
My Responsibilities
01 User Experience Design
I identified the storyline and the interaction map for perdicting the user’s behaviour during playing the game. Therefore, we can better find the difference from what we predict based on the observation.
02 User Feedback
I organized the user’s feedback with GoogleSheet. This kind of qualitative and quantitative data is from customers on their likes, dislikes, impressions, and requests about a product. The team made improvement based on the collected user’s needs.
03 Create Sound Effects
I created multiple sound effects, including character voice, heating, background music, etc., by using adobe audition and live recording.
Game Mechanism
Players need to tilt the board. By tilting it, they can control the “prince” ball to touch the objects and triger the next switch. After players triggered all the switches, they can pass the maze to find the princess.
Final Video
3. Oasis — VR Game
Oasis is a Virtual Reality World made for Oculus Quest 2.
This is a story about betrayal. The player plays as a robot kid who perfectly obeys the Three Laws of Robotics, escaping from the wasteland to the oasis along with his beloved father in the post-apocalyptic era. But what will happen on this dangerous escape adventure?
Can the robot and the father successfully reach their destination?
The theme of the 4th round is “Story“ and we were tasked to make a narrative driven experience.
My Responsibilities
01 User Experience Researcher
Because the task is to make a driven expereince for players, we decide to create a single storyline. We made a initial demo to help us playtest. We want to see if the players can unserstand the visual and aural instruction.
02 User Interface Design
I designed the user interface and instruction based on the theme of technology and cyberpunk. We want the player to be immersed in what the robot feels like and what it needs to do.
03 Dialogue Recording
I used the sound booth to record the dialogue in the game. The dialogue provide an aural immersive experience for the player.
Game Mechanism
Players play as a robot in the third-person perspective, and they will follow the story and UI instructions to help another character.
Final Video
4. Santa Training Course — HTC Vive Tracker
A festive Christmas racing game experience using HTC Vive tracker in the CAVE room.
This is a Christmas racing game for 2~3 people to play. You can either play as Rudolph to control the direction or Santa to throw out the gifts to houses and snowballs to evil snowmen. Users can have enjoyable and exciting moments.
The theme of the 5th round is “Festival“, we were tasked to make something fun for an in person game festival regardless of the technology.
The Immersive experience
The space is called “Cave”. There is a board on the ground which the operator can control it to tilt it to different directions. Thus, it can let the players feel immersive To learn more about the space, click:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environment
Game Mechanism
This is a collboration game which can contains three players at the same time
People who stand on the left use the controller to throw snowball and heat back the snowman
People who stand in the center use the dancing pad to control the direction and speed up/down
People who stand on the right use the controller to throw gifts to the house.
