Blog #1- Pre-Project

Hello! I am Nolan Si and for my Hawken Project, I will be working with Divij and Qiwen to create a Virtual Reality multiplayer game. We all have some experience creating games in unity from previous intensives, and we hope to build on that previous knowledge. Some of us have experience creating multiplayer games, and some of us have experience creating VR games. Hopefully, through this project, we are able to learn how to combine these two elements to form a coherent game that we can publish and allow other people to enjoy. I have never worked on a long-term project with other people, so I will learn how to work in software development with other people. Being able to work together is an important skill, not only interpersonally, but also technically by utilizing tools like git. We will be working on a game that involves cooperation and puzzle-solving. We have never created a game like this before, so hopefully we can learn what goes into creating this sort of game. Things like how to design puzzles, how to make an equally fun experience for all the players, and also things like sound design which are often overlooked or put off. We hope that by the end we will have something that allows people to connect and play together without needing to be in the same physical space. By incorporating VR we hope to make an immersive experience where people are able to fully put themselves into the game.