Finding

Inspiration

At the very beginning, we're thinking about making a light game for Gear VR users we want this game to be highly immersive, and we want its gameplay to be highly combined with the advantages of virtual reality. We want this game to give users a feeling of speed, excitement, with no motion sickness. We take some flying experiences from Spiderman, Attack of Titans and Angry Birds as our references and inspirations. And then we have Finding, Our VR Game.

How it works

This is the prototype of an action and puzzle game named “Finding”, which is characterized by controlling the game character to shuttle in space by using a hook and, in the meantime, to open switches as required. The game challenges players' ability to respond quickly and also offers a fully immersed first person perspective when controlling the character to zoom past obstacles and solve puzzles. We have also maximized the use of Gear VR's touchpad in gameplay. You can use both touchpad and gamepad to play our game.

Challenges I ran into

Oculus'Mobile VR Jam 2015

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We have made great progress in using Gear VR’s touchpad to control the character in our game.You can walk around freely,launch your claw to grab these Photospheres and swing yourself though different floating islands like the Spider Man,and activate some special devices and props in the world of Finding.We can put most of the game play that a traditional platform adventure game needs in Finding.

What I learned

After we tried some different types of art style in Gear VR,we made a lot of compromises.We can not use any camera based image effect to promote the visual performance of our game.We always  hesitated between the details of the world and the limitation of draw calls.So,we are still trying to find a best way to achieve good visual performance in Gear VR.

What's next for Finding

Now we have already finished two game stages and one tutorial stage.Next,we want to Finish the remain stages and chapters,add all the fun game elements we designed,add more combat in the game sunch as put a huge boss at the end of each chapter.In the future,we also want to make this game a multiply,cooperative or competitive game.Hopefully we can finish it in time