Enter the Dollyverse

Dolley at the White House
Dolley wins the Maze
Dolley in the Maze
Dolley talks to Dolly Baarton
Dolly and Friend talk to Dali

Inspiration: Coming out of the World Creator Academy we wanted to keep learning the latest tools and build a new world featuring our very favorite genres. At Double Eye Studios we are a team that works with professional Broadway performers and TV & Film Writers with a focus on liveness. We love musicals and we love LARP and Cosplay. We wanted to make a world where people could dress up and step into the spotlight on the theater stage.

Creative Process: We have a love for complex narratives and assembled some of our favorite comedy writers into a Writers Room and built a narrative about the act of bravery of Dolley Madison during the War of 1812. We took this premise and merged it with Cloning, AI, and the Multiverse, creating a world of sheep inspired by famous Dolly personalities. We wrote an original song and musical number blending traditional Broadway with a trendy hip hop rap highlighting Dolley’s achievement.

Tools: We used Meta’s Gen AI tools to create the whimsical Sheep characters and many custom props and models. We also used Blender to build other key assets. We pulled in some Horizon public assets. Typescript, CoPilot and more for coding.

Challenges Gameplay expansion: We had a larger game play design and levels and we would love to keep expanding it. Animations: We’ve built a musical number for R&D for Meta in the past when the platform was in its infancy. We still long to make the musical number come alive with animations. We couldn’t find a way to animate the NPC characters or to import models with animations. We want this to be a “showstopper.”

Future plans: Expanding the Gameplay and Musical Number Community: We aspire to run community workshops for performance in Horizon in the future.