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Fear // Anxiety
Experimental Setup in VR for psychological research (Unity)
In cooperation with the University of Bonn, this project aims to provide psychologists with a tool to evaluate the difference between fear and anxiety in participants. The project won the XR Science Award for Best Practice in 2022.
Since the app is still in development, there is no representative footage available yet.
FACT SHEET
- Type Research Project
- Genre Horror
- Tools Unity, GitHub
- Platform Android (Oculus Quest 2)
- Time in project 6 months
- Team Jonas Zimmer, Vadim Nickel, Arthur Kehrwald, Noa Marcon
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Basing game design on current psychological research
- Creating gameplay situations that can be scientifically evaluated
- Designing levels to create believable non-Euclidean spaces
LINKS
THE PROJECT
In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Dipl. Psych. Martin Reuter in the University of Bonn, this ongoing project aims to support psychological research. Psychologists presume that there is a difference between fear and anxiety – with fear being a primal and non-suppressible emotion whereas anxiety is potentially suppressible.
To evaluate that difference, as of now, questionnaires have been the means of choice. However, self-evaluation is not as reliable as an experimental setup.
The medium of VR with its highly immersive qualities is therefore investigated as an ethical experimental environment to trigger fear and anxiety responses in study participants. The final study results will also be accompanied by a DNA analysis of participants to potentially find relevant markers associated with anxiety.
SCIENTIFIC GAME DESIGN
In this project, we were working in a small group and I was supporting project lead Jonas Zimmer in the design of the whole experience, cooperating closely with programmers and artists.
The main focus of my work was the level and experience design. The challenge was to create a believable setting and narrative that did not break the immersion, but still allowed for a scientific evaluation. I took a deep dive into the relevant psychological research on the topic in order to find the best markers to identify relevant behavior and to create level designs that could evoke the necessary reactions.
NON-EUCLIDEAN LEVEL DESIGN
One of the main challenges of the project was our ambition to make the experience as immersive as possible, so that the participants would forget their real surrounding and their reactions would come as close as possible to those that they would exhibit in a real situation.
That is why one of the major features of the application was the non-Euclidean architecture that allowed for continuous natural movement throughout the experience.
BEHIND THE SCENES
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- Platform Some Platform
- Timeframe X to X months
- Release Month 2391
- Team Person 1, Person 2, Person 3, Person 4
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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]]>Cologne Game lab // ReleasED
Border Zone
Location-based AR App for Android and iOS
In cooperation with Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten the Cologne Game Lab developed a location-based mobile app for Park Babelsberg, a former site of the Inner German border. Take a step into the past, reenact stories in AR and learn about German history as you go!
FACT SHEET
- Type Research Project
- Genre Location-Based AR Experience
- Tools Unity, Git, OpenStreetMap, Fmod, Scrum
- Platform Android and iOS
- Timeframe 10 months
- Release April 2022
- Team 15
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- creation of immersive storytelling mechanics for mobile AR
- remote development of a location-based application
- working with and organizing a big design team
LINKS
THE PROJECT
Funded by Neustart Kultur, SPSG and CGL cooperated to realize an application that should make the history of Park Babelsberg visible for its visitors. Park Babelsberg and the small castle therein were once built as a residence for Emperor William I and his wife Augusta.
However, sharing its borders with West Berlin, a lot of its beauty and architecture were destroyed when the German Border was built along its riverside.
Meanwhile, a lot of its former vision has been restored, but the past should not be forgotten.
In Border Zone, players can navigate the park via a live map and go to specific spots to find traces of the past. When choosing to follow these traces, they are led to points in the park where a short interactive story will reveal itself. Players will have to follow the protagonist of the story through the park in order to reveal the outcome of the narrative.
LEARNING WITH STORIES
The main goal of the concept was to recreate scenes from history at real locations in the park. The stories told should have an educational impact on the players, teaching them about the former GDR (German Democratic Republic) and addressing specific learning goals.
A major challenge that we ran into and which a lot of historical games are struggling with, is the one of historical accuracy.
Although being provided with a lot of photographic material and witness reports from the time and doing our research, a time machine has not been built yet. We agreed on writing a story that was inspired by a real event that took place in the park but exchanging the characters and the outcomes of the situation in order to maintain our creative freedom. The result is a story that should give people a feeling about the general atmosphere in the former GDR and the sort of events that could easily happen if you didn’t comply.
We had the script reviewed several times, but it is still a delicate topic and it was important to us to be respectful to contemporary witnesses and victims.
TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS
Our first concept imagined the AR gameplay in the park to be much more dynamic. Footsteps of former visitors could be found everywhere and be followed in AR freely, while the positions of buildings and paths were considered in the tracking and included in scenes.
However, we had to realise that AR technology is just not there yet. Especially not when building an app that should be playable on as many mobile devices as possible and which takes place outside in a park – an environment that’s subject to constant change. We considered installing Bluetooth trackers, but that would have limited the experience to very specific locations.
Instead we successfully accommodated for the technical limitations with design solutions by rearranging and abstracting our original gameplay ideas.
ORGANIZING TEAMWORK
Since I was the designer with the most hours in the project, it naturally became my job to keep track of things. I worked closely with the programmers since we were the core team of people that were still coming to the office, so I was the first one to use and test new systems once they were implemented.
Managing the design tasks and distributing them when needed was assisted well by the agile project management.
CHALLENGES OF THE PANDEMIC
Creating a game that could only be played on-location from across the country was certainly a challenge. We created our own testing grounds at our office in Cologne but emulating the GPS positions could only take us so far. We visited Potsdam several times to test the game in the park and it helped to identify the biggest problems, but nevertheless proper testing was one of our biggest challenges in this project.
With travel restrictions and almost everybody working from home, this was even more tricky. Not everyone had a suitable test device, and some home offices were too small to test the AR scenes.
Considering the time we had and the challenges we faced, I think that we delivered a great blueprint for an extremely innovative gameplay idea that could be adapted for on-location history teaching in many other places.
BEHIND THE SCENES
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]]>Cologne Game Lab // RELEASED
VR Time Travel
Co-Location Multiplayer VR Experience on Oculus Quest
In this 4-player VR experience, developed for the new Zukunftmuseum in Nürnberg, you step into a future projection to find out as much as you can about possible timelines. Enjoy a stroll around a fully robot-operated market and discover what 2050 Nürnberg has to offer.
FACT SHEET
- Type Research Project
- Genre Co-Location VR Experience
- Tools Unity, Plastic SCM, Jira, Slack
- Platform Android (Oculus Quest 2)
- Timeframe 19 months
- Released September 2021
- Team 20+
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- leading Game Design role in a team of 20+ people
- working with limitations and fulfilling a specific brief
- designing for a museum audience
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THE PROJECT
This project was a research cooperation between the German Museum and the Cologne Game Lab. In their newly opening branch, the Museum of the Future, the museum had dedicated an 75 m² area for an on-location VR experience. The joint venture’s goal was to fill this space with a gaming experience which lets the visitors take a glimpse into the near future of Nürnberg.
Since its opening in September 2021, several dozen visitors are taking part in the VR time travel every day.
VERSATILITY
Over time, my design responsibilities shifted from designing the core gameplay and narrative, to creating the level layout and balancing the missions. I designed the look and feel of the AR User Interface for all objects and worked closely together with our 3D artists, providing them with additional concepts.
DESIGNING FOR A BROAD AUDIENCE
The most challenging part of the game design was to make the game as accessible as possible to a broad target group: the visitors of the future museum. Kids, parents and grandparents should be able to play this game together and cooperate in finding objects on our „future market“ that would fit the current objective. As a result, the game design had to cater to many different player types. Our interactive environment invites observation, exploration and experimentation, while still offering an optional, more task-driven challenge for players that are already familiar with Virtual Reality.
TAKING THE LEAD
I accompanied this project as a design lead from start to finish. It was daunting, but also exciting, to take on this much responsibility for a project and developing a location-based game remotely with over 20 people involved proved to be an especially challenging task. I learned how to work in a big team and how to communicate effectively with different departments. Although there are naturally some cutbacks with a project of this size and complexity, we ultimately mastered the challenge and are very happy with the final result.
BEHIND THE SCENES
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]]>Solo Project // RELEASED
Tricky Temple
Puzzle Memory Game for Android and WebGL
Tricky Temple is a grid-based puzzle game in a tomb raider setting that will test your memory. Enter dark temple rooms and remember the path to the other side – or your fate is sealed.
FACT SHEET
- Type Semester Project
- Genre Memory Puzzle Game
- Tools Unity, Git, MS Visual Studio, MagicaVoxel
- Platform WebGL, Android
- Timeframe 12 weeks
- Released December 2019
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- solo development and release
- integration and evaluation of GameAnalytics
- creation of 20 levels with increasing difficulty curve
PLAY THE GAME
LINKS
THE PROJECT
LEARNING TO SCRIPT
Even though I had written and adjusted scripts in Unity before, I never really created anything from scratch. Although accompanied by frustration from time to time, this project improved my programming knowledge immensely. I learned how to plan out a game system and how to come up with different solution approaches for a problem.
PLAYTESTING AND GAMEANALYTICS
BEHIND THE SCENES
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]]>STUDENT PROJECT // RELEASED
Shadow Maker
VR Sandbox for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
Shadow Maker wants to put you into the shoes of your younger self and capture the wonder that you felt when playing with shadows. Explore your bedroom, discover toys and objects and use them to create fascinating shapes!
FACT SHEET
- Type Semester Project
- Genre VR Sandbox
- Tools Unreal Engine, Blender, Cinema4D, Reaper, Hack'n'Plan
- Platform Windows (Oculus Rift / HTC Vive)
- Timeframe 6 weeks
- Released July 2019
- Team Manuel Ott
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- designing a playful sandbox level
- creating a belieavable VR environment
- adjusting various third party 3D assets to our needs
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THE PROJECT
In our fourth semester’s experimental game project at the Cologne Game Lab, we worked in a two-person team to create a sandbox VR experience that revolves around the casting of shadows.
RESPONSIBILITIES
I was the sole designer in this project, so my task was not only the level and interaction design, but also finding and preparing assets that matched the vision for our game. The overall goal was to create an engaging environment that created a sense of curiosity and invited for experimentation.
DESIGNING FOR VR
The most interesting aspect for me was working in VR for the first time and seeing how much every object in virtual reality invited interaction. Also designing a virtual space has different requirements than regular level design, because it is much less predictable what the player will do, where they will look, and what they will interact with. It was especially challenging to create the level in a way that it will feel “real” to the player, paying attention to the logic of the space, the placement of objects and the sizing of the virtual world.
BEHIND THE SCENES
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]]>Student Project // RELEASED
The Rapid Treasure Escape
Local Co-Op Racing Game for Windows and macOS
The Rapid Treasure Escape is a fast-paced racing game where you are sharing a gamepad with a friend to control two trickster pirates on the run. Will you escape your pursuers and bring your treasure to safety?
FACT SHEET
- Type Semester Project
- Genre Local Co-Op Racing Game
- Tools Unity, Git, Hack’n’Plan
- Platforms Windows, MacOS
- Timeframe 6 weeks
- Released February 2018
- Team Gina Graf, Daniel Turner, Manuel Ott, David Wildemann
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- creating an engaging core game loop
- designing challenging obstacles and levels
- balancing a procedural difficulty curve
LINKS
THE PROJECT
In our first semester project at the Cologne Game Lab we were asked to create a ludic game, meaning a game that focuses on having a fun core mechanic. We quickly came up with the idea of two people sharing a gamepad in a racing game, making them communicate in order to succeed.
FIRST STEPS
I enjoyed the creative process a lot since this was the first digital game I worked on as a designer. During the concept phase I applied my experience from my former design studies to generate a lot of ideas and include the whole team in the idea finding process. The toughest lesson to learn was to cut features and reduce complexity, but in the end, it benefited the gameplay immensely and made us focus on the core experience.
DESIGNING FOR PROCEDURAL LEVELS
One of the most challenging tasks was to make up rules for the spawning behaviour of obstacles and the generation of the procedural levels. To do so, I built levels and obstacles by hand and extrapolated values like the length and difficulty of the track, as well as the number and difficulty of obstacles.
LOOK AND FEEL
Another big part of my responsibilities was the overall user experience. I adjusted the values of our rowing mechanic, implemented the tutorial, created assets for the user interface and designed the menu flow. I also worked on music and sound and created the branding of the game.
BEHIND THE SCENES
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]]>Bachelor Project // Prototype
Rocket Mechanic
VR Escape Room for Oculus Quest
You are the first person on Mars – and you have to leave … NOW! The starting sequence of the escape pod has been initiated, but it needs some last-minute repairs. Fix things up quickly or the expedition might end badly!
FACT SHEET
- Type Bachelor Project
- Genre VR Escape Room
- Tools Unity, Git, MS Visual Studio, Blender, Auto Hand Assetpack
- Platform Android (Oculus Quest)
- Timeframe October 2020 – January 2021
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- successful creation of intuitive VR gameplay
- solo development of a working prototype
- programming of modularly extendable gameplay
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THE PROJECT
This prototype was the practical part for my Bachelor Thesis at the Cologne Game Lab. Since my thesis concerned itself with the concept of affordance in VR, the goal of my prototype was to create a VR experience that was as intuitive as possible.
INTUITIVE DESIGN
The goal of my design was to create an experience, that needed no tutorial or additional explanation in order to be played. In Rocket Mechanic players are provided with a random selection of modules in a small cylindrical space that they have to solve within a set time frame in order to win the game.
There is only one interaction button and all module tasks are designed to be self-explanatory. Additionally, interactive elements are highlighted with a bright yellow colour.
TAKEAWAYS
The prototype served as a proof of concept, and in the following playtests it became clear that my intent of creating intuitive VR gameplay had worked. Players needed no additional instructions in order to be able to play the game. In future iterations, I would like to introduce procedural levels to increase replayability and create a coherent narrative to tie everything together. Additionally, more diverse modules could help to create a more challenging experience.
BEHIND THE SCENES
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Dev Blog Post
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