My First VR Game: LudumDare Game Jam 2022
I had a chance to participate in LudumDare Game Jam in 2022 Oct 1st, thanks to UVIC Game Development Club. I made my first working VR game on Unity 2019.3.8f1.
What is Game Jam?
Game Jam is similar to a hackathon. The organizer announces the theme of the game jam at the begging of the event. This time, it was “Every 10 seconds”. Participants need to build a game that fits into the theme in a limited amount of time, usually 72 hours.
What was your game about?
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theme : "Every 10 seconds"
Thanks to the “Uvic Game Development Club”, we had a chance to brainstorm about the theme “Every 10 seconds” before the game jam. It was a coincidence that our theme matched with the theme of Ludumdare. One of the interesting ideas we came up with was “submarine game with a sonar ping every 10 seconds to enable player to view the environment”. I have altered that idea and came up with a VR zombie defence game. There is a rainstorm pouring down and a player can only view the zombies every 10 seconds when lighting hits the ground.
Challenges
- I have never made a game before. Furthermore, I have never done VR development. I only had some experience building VRChat avatars and worlds. I had to learn a lot in a short period of time. Furthermore, I had no experience with Blender and making assets from scratch except some fl studio experience. I was heavily dependent on unity asset store.
- I have Quest 2. I do not own any other VR headset at the moment because of my financial situation. I wish I could do more on other platforms. I wonder what could be possible if I could do full body tracking.
- I am currently enrolled at the University of Victoria. I had to carry on with the jam during my term. I had some time management problems ending, staying up a lot.
What have you learned?
Unity is a well made engine for VR Game development. It seems like they are trying to expand their support for such a development environment. Valem posts tutorials of VR game development on Youtube. He also has a patroen tutorials.
Source Code
https://github.com/daehwankim112/Ludum-Dare—Shoot-Zombies—Static-FPS
Valem
Uvic Game Development
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