Locked in orbit

A VR Escape Room Experience created by myself and my partner, Harry Guzenda.

Across October and November 2024, we created this project for our 'Virtual Reality for Games Designers' module. Since then, we have worked with the VR department at the University of Staffordshire to add the final touches and create a product that will be showcased during open days at the university.

I focused on the Audio, Planning & Production and Design of the project. See below for more details:

Audio

Working in a completely new area of Virtual Reality, I wanted to get the sound right so that the player's immersion was heightened and not broken.

I carefully plotted attenuation radiuses for ambience between rooms, modulated pitch on the repeating footsteps of the player & included SFX to give the player signifiers on their actions within the experience.

You can see snapshots of the work done below:

Planning & Production

Because of my background in production & planning, I am always keen to include solid practices for an individual project. So, working as a team of two, this was no exception.

Miro was used to flesh out initial planning and keep both our ideas in one place.

Trello was used to detail tasks, with labels, to ensure we met the requirements for the project & beyond.

A GDD was also required for the module, which was created in Word from a template provided.

Design

I wanted to add immersion to the experience by including a space-themed HDRI Backdrop.

NASA themselves have Deep Star Maps that can be dowloaded as EXR files and that's how we imported them into the game.

Captures were taken of the development process, of which some you can see below:

Locked in orbit

Audio

Planning & Production

Design

get in touch at lew.melia@gmail.com