Over the christmas break i spent some time trying to test and find any final bugs or issues but there were not too many that needed fixing and overall it plays how i wanted it to at this point of the project.
Environment Updates
Overall I am very happy with the environment and looks very typographic, sepiatone and dark in nature as i originall pictured it but i wanted to add a last few details to finish it off. I started to add some extra books and pages around the environment to add some final touches to the experience as seen in the images below.
Playable Build
After making the final changes to the project i was able to succesffuly export the project as a playable build which thankfully works without any known bugs or issues and plays easily through an Oculus headset (Meta now…). The gameplay capture videos below are from the playable build file.
Gameplay Capture
Gameplay Commentary
User Testing
Some of my friends were polite enought to try out and test the final build of the game and i asked them to give some of their thoughts which are written below:
Tester 01: “Firstly I really enjoyed playing the shutter experience. The darkness of the environment with the trees created a very good sense of claustrophobia. The gameplay is simple yet very effective and how it ramps up difficulty in each section is well done making the final level quite stressful compared to the first 2. An improvement I’d suggest is a recentre button as the table height was very low even when sitting. Also I noticed in the introduction level if you drop “Hello” it starts rotating around a different point and can be lost through the floor but I don’t believe this happens in other levels”
Tester 02: “Overall I really enjoyed the game but felt the position of the table was a little low and I did not like the font at the end. I get that it’s trying to be harder but don’t like the changing fonts”
Tester 03: “The VR experience you’ve made is really interesting – big fan of how the audio itself stutters as you’re trying to grab the words. I like the environment too.”