Puppeteer

Project Description

Puppeteer is a VR Horror game set in a realistic traditional chinese house. You play as a ghost excorcist, and your job is to excorsise the house of evil. Use your trusty Talisman to ward off evil beings, and your Ba Gua to help you locate the next area of interest. Play through a series of puzzles and uncover the hidden dangers of the house!

Roles and Responsibilities

Producer | Tech Lead | Designer | Game Programmer

Project Details

Project Duration: 12 months
Tools/Platform: Unity3D, VRTK, C#
Team size: 7

Features completed

• VR interactions with environment
• Multiple puzzles to be solved
• Ba Gua Compass guides player to next nearest puzzle as a hint
• Talisman illuminates environment and acts as a murder tool against the evil things
• Mannequins spawn and roam around the map, and increase in frequency as game goes on
• Design of 3 puzles: Clock puzzle, Mannequin puzzle, and Photo puzzle
• Successfully jump scared many people
• One casualty during game testing because the person ran into a physical table when people told him to run

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Instructions:

1. Download and unzip the game
2. Navigate into the folder directory and run the executable
3. For this VR game, you will require SteamVR and a proper VR setup to play this game in VR. This game is developed using the HTC Vive.
4. It is possible to play this game without any VR equipment. After launching the game, please refer to the control instructions on the top-left of the screen.