Global Game Jam 2017 · VR in 48 hours
Lighthouse Down VR
You are Tom, a paraplegic maintenance man, stranded alone on an island with nothing but your hands and a will to survive. The only chance of rescue is at the top of the lighthouse — and the weather has other plans.
- My role
- Team Lead · Producer · 3D Artist
- Team
- 10 · cross-major
- Event
- Global Game Jam 2017
- Duration
- 48 hours
The problem
A game jam gives you forty-eight hours. I wanted to spend them proving VR was possible in that window, with a team I recruited from outside my own major as well as inside it.
What I did
I put the team together myself and led it as producer while also taking 3D art. Scope was cut to what a weekend can hold — one confined setting and one vertical objective — so every asset had somewhere to go and nobody sat blocked waiting on another discipline.
Outcome
A VR experience delivered inside the jam, a trailer that still plays, and a ten-person credit list where every discipline is named.
Mine
- Team recruitment
- Production and scope
- 3D art
Not mine
- Programming
- Sound design
- Level design
- Concept art
- Branding
- Animation
- Voice
- Team assembled
- 10
- Jam window
- 48 hours
Video
Credits
- Kaushik Padmanabnabhan — Lead Programmer / Associate Producer
- Kevin Achen — Gameplay Programming / Technical Artist
- Preston O'Bryan — Lead Sound Designer
- Remy Bustani — Concept Art / Level Design
- Brandon Jauregui — Lead Level Design / 3D Artist
- Neil Waters — 3D & Texture Artist
- Elissa Danese — Art Director / Material & 3D Artist / Animator
- Reichal Min — Motion Media / Branding / Graphic Design
- Manish Singh — 3D Artist / Voice Actor
- Daniel Wright — Team Lead / Producer / 3D Artist