Space Delivery

Start Project:

Mar 4, 2024

Client:

Omind

Duration:

6 months

Character design

Friendly band of droïd, each with their own nature and taste. They are your crew, and the ones that you will need to trust with the repair. During each game, your goal is to quickly identify which ones will contribute to the ship’s value, and which will deteriorate it even more.

The droïds were rigged so we could animate them within Unity, and create more interactions.

Rigging test inside the 3D software before importing to Unity

The droïds were rigged so we could animate them within Unity, and create more interactions.

Environment design

The ship needed to offer players a wide view of space, to maximize the immersive feeling, but also so that they could see the direct impact of their actions.

We decided to have a few pieces of the ship that would deteriorate through time, as well as the lights. So you could really feel if you were doing good or bad. The whole scene is set up in a way that the better you’re doing, the more polished the spaceship is and the bluer the light. In the eventuality that you are doing bad, the lights turn more and more orange, smoke appears, and the furniture deteriorates.

Overview of the scene. The player sits in the middle of the ship,.

When the ship hits a low value, the environment turns to warm colors, with broken furnitures and smokes all over.

When hitting a high ship value, the atmostphere because sleek and blue.

Malfunctions may happen during your flights…

Interface

The interface needed to be easy to understand, as the game was aimed at people who are not necessarily used to tech, especially VR. We opted for simple push interactions, through big buttons. Players have 4 game phases, where they need to push the button to give order to the droïds, who sit at their console, to make repairs. Players can control their action on the total value of the ship, shown just above. After each phase, there would be a small survey, to evaluate players’ perception of how good or bad they’re doing

Note that it also influenced the design of the spaceship, with the retro future inspiration, so the big chunky buttons to press would not look out of style.

We also designed a lobby to launch the game, with the hope that more games will come in the future. As it will be for most players the first time they entered VR, we were looking for that wahoo effects, while still reminding them where OMIND was from (Paris, France).

Over the last 4 years, we have partnered with OMIND Neurotechnologies to materialize their vision into interactive and immersive products. We worked under the Head of Product and Head of Science management, closely collaborating with their in-house developers. When we first join, the team at OMIND was very successful with their proof of concept, a virtual reality experience, with biofeedback, and needed a multi disciplinary design help, to evolve into a range of solutions built for coaches and companies alike. Their main goal is to help individuals within a company to assess and develop their ever evolving soft skills, in order to create better teams, better environment, and in the end, better products.

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