Solar Voyager
2023
Our project depicts a world where during the ten-year winter, a group of high-class opposers of the new laws creates their own self-sustaining ship above the sun-blocking clouds to avoid living in darkness. The project explores the technology they use and invent to survive and live most comfortably in this new space.
For this project, I was the XR Designer for a VR walkthrough of Solar Voyager would be like. One of the reasons I proposed to do a VR walkthrough was because I got really excited thinking about what it would be like to live on a self-sustaining ship above the clouds. I have done previous work designing in VR and I know how powerful even a couple of minutes in a headset can be, a picture can say a thousand words.The get a look into the experience watch the walkthrough video below.
A COCINAR
For my Senior Comprehensive Project I decided to create a VR game to teach people about Mexican culture through learning about our cuisine. At first I tried to fit too much into the project and have this one game encompass all of Mexican culture. I quickly found this was not possible so I changed perspective and instead made it be more influenced by my own experience.
To find out more about the background research, methods and user testing for this first version of my game read my final research paper below.
After having people play A Cocinar, I found that they really enjoyed it and I really enjoyed working on it. Therefore, I decided to extend it for another semester and graduate with honors.
For the second iteration, I focused on making this more of a game with various elements that require skill development since the first version was more a proof of concept that I could make a cooking game for VR on Unity.
To find out more about my design and development process for the second iteration read the Medium article I wrote below.
A professor of mine saw my work and suggested that I submit it to the BAFTA Yugo awards. I did and was wonderfully surprised that out of 750+ submissions mine was one of 70 projects that was shortlisted.
This project is truly a passion project for me and I am so excited to keep working on it. To play the game go to the link below.
