Rainbow Island Treasure Hunt VR

Rainbow Island Treasure Hunt VR is a pirate-themed treasure hunt game I created for an installation at the WA Shipwrecks Museum.

The game allows up to 20 networked players using Oculus GOs to spend 25 minutes scouring a tropical island, collecting as many gold coins as possible and finding hidden treasure chests.

Super fun project created in around 8 weeks in Nov/Dec 2018 that ran at the Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle during Jan/Feb 2019.

Working with 2 interns and a few of the regular Frame Labs crew, we built and ran the game.

Some interesting aspects included:

Retopologized some 477 assets from the Synty Studios Pirates asset pack into several level-of-detail (LOD) versions.

Created additional animal NPC characters:

Developed a novel object culling system:

Created a super simple shader that almost all objects used to draw with: