Scene 1: Car
When you begin the game, you will spawn in the desert. You will be prompted to grab the keys and start the car to be transported to the arctic.
Sanctuary Saviours is a VR experience I created for my final project in one of my IYA classes: ACAD 217: Extended Reality. The experience is meant to enlighten users of the effects of climate change by immersing them in various endangered habitats and seeing how their interactions with the environment have an impact. The experience was designed in Unity, and I worked in a group of 2 other IYA students to create this experience in 3 weeks. As someone who is passionate about the environment and effects of global warming it was a true honour to see this experience come to life.
As the lead developer and programmer on my group project team, I was in charge of ensuring the back-end functionality supported the experience, while also contributing to the design of each scene. I designed all of the basic user interactions in unity across each scene such as locomotion methods, mapping teleportation areas, grabbable objects, socket interactors, etc. I also designed the arctic and beach habitats from scratch molding the unity terrain game object to create dynamic and lively terrains, and creating 3D assets in Shapr3D and Blender such as icebergs, animals and vegetations to bring the scene to life. I also created all of the animations viewed in the scene within unity.
April 2024-May 2024
When you begin the game, you will spawn in the desert. You will be prompted to grab the keys and start the car to be transported to the arctic.
In the Arctic you travel towards the water through teleportation. You will see fish in the water and be prompted to grab the floating spear. Once you grab the spear a secondary camera shows the fish in the wate, prompting you to catch one. Once you catch the fish the ice begins to melt and the water level rises until you are in the ocean.
You wash up on shore at the beach from the ocean and a sign tells you to pick up the trash. Once you have picked up all the trash from the beach a bottle floats in onto the shore with a message to save the planet from climate change before its to late.