Future Scape

Summary

Developed for Enterprise Technologies, Future Scape is a virtual career exploration tool designed for K-12 students. The project features interactive minigames, each showcasing different careers such as pharmacology, manufacturing, forensic science, etc. I specifically designed and developed the pharmacy, manufacturing, and urban planning minigames. In the pharmacy minigame, players act as pharmacists, dispensing medications to patients within a time limit. The manufacturing minigame challenges players to build assembly lines and create products while managing a budget. The urban planning minigame involves designing a city and managing resources and budgeting effectively.

Gameplay

The gameplay varies across minigames, all accessible via portals from a main hub. Each game introduces unique challenges, from solving forensic puzzles to managing complex economic systems and building cities. The games that I created employ a sandbox-like environment where players can place and remove objects on a grid system without overlap, facilitated by an economy and resource system for object selection and placement.

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Implemented Features

Name Description
XR Development Kit Leverages Unity’s XR Development Kit to create immersive VR experiences, featuring locomotion, grabbing, raycasting, and other interactive elements suitable for a VR headset.
Sandbox Building Utilized in both manufacturing and urban planning, this feature includes grid snapping and spatial memory for object placement. The player may place and remove objects in a way that does not conflict with the placement of others. The player may rotate and select a variety of objects with the help of a transparent green silhouette in the shape of the selected mesh.
Component Linking In manufacturing, components are machines that can be linked via conveyor belts to create assembly lines. A complex system handles items that interact with these components, input item(s) are detected and accepted if a possible output item can be created.
Economy Systems Both in urban planning and manufacturing, the player must manage a budget in order to purchase and place objects in the world. Income can also be provided through passive means to help the player build quickly and prevent soft locking.
Resource Management Systems In urban planning, managing resources is critical to making sure your city is stable and functional. Each building has required and provided resources. Required resources must be met before a building can be taxed. Players strategize to balance required and available resources to optimize city operations.
Particle Systems and Shaders Particles include ambient dust in manufacturing, and fireflies in astronomy. Shaders include the portals in the main hub room and the relay pad in urban planning. All shaders were made using Unity's shader graph.