YUCHEN (CARSTEN) HUANG
Gameplay Programmer
M I S S I O N G R A B
PLATFORM: Oculus Rift + Leap Motion, TIME: 2 weeks, ROLE: Programmer
This is a virtual reality game, in which the guest’s role is an astronaut trying to survive space crash caused by asteroid hit and repair the spaceship with his own hands, detected by Leap Motion.
The goal of this project is to build an intuitive experience leading naive player to complete the tasks without many instructions.
As a programmer, I implemented the game state, floating object behavior, special feedbacks to enhance indirect control (fig 1, 2, 3), and configured the physics engine.
Fig.1 Fake hands in the beginning work as reminder to inspire player to use own hands; Abrupt existence of hamburger in space ship leads player to grab and learn the grab-release interaction of the game
Fig.2 & 3 Spotlights used to direct the player where and when to release the currently grabbed object