Over Lock VR

Over Lock VR is a personal project, where the task was to make a VR escape room equipped with an interactive hero asset. In this project I used Autodesk Maya for modelling, Substance painter and Photoshop for texturing, and Unity for VR development.

I wanted to achieve a mysterious atmosphere for the escape room, and tried to come up with a somewhat unusual theme. Hy hero asset is an old over lock machine, and I decided to put it in a shabby laundry room, containing some general cheep laundry stuff and washing machines. But something is off: there is a big green glowing power cube inside the room and a worried intro message tells the player to flee. The player have to figure out how to escape before the time runs out, and avoid the deadly traps. Ironically, the player can only escape through death, and will end up in heaven if they manage to solve the puzzle.

The hero asset it supposed to stand out in the experience to draw attention to it, while the rest of the room is supposed to have an less detailed style. My hero asset is an over lock machine, which I modelled in a realistic style with a real over lock I had access to as reference. I modelled the rest of the objects in the room using reference images. I made all textures for the over lock in substance painter, plus the wall paint and tile texture for the room.

In Unity I was working on making smooth VR interactions for buttons, lever, washing machine door, and over lock top handle. I also made simple functionality to make the room come to life such as a pulsating power cube, a timer on the wall, a swinging lamp, a typing welcome message, put in some sound effects and a mystic ambient background sound. I put in a few traps that transfers the player into the “you died” scene with a blue fire I made with particle system. I wanted to work with the element of surprise and made three different states for the room so that the player will experience three different surroundings even though they are in the same place. There is the room you start in, a dark state with hidden riddles written on the walls, and an end state where the room has burned down to the ground. I tried to make the burning room sequence extra intense, using VFX graph for a lightning, a few dissolve shaders and particle systems to burn down the walls, and an ash shader to apply dirt. After the room has burned down the player can walk out of the aches to find themself in heaven walking on the clouds, with my own cloud shader.