Games ENDANGERED: a SteamVR/Unity Game

Blod just wants a boring desk job. Boss is an environmentalist with other ideas. He assigns Blod to command a mission to a nearby planet with the (rather silly) name of “Earth”, in the hope of preventing the primitive inhabitants (with the equally silly name of “human”) from going extinct. An Interactive Fiction / Adventure game in which you play the part of Blod.

Having retired after nearly 40 years working in industrial control software, I wanted a fun software challenge. So I decided to learn how to program for my SteamVR system – I mean: how hard can it be? I soon realised I needed a real goal, and so decided to create an adventure style game based on a YouTube video series I had created during the Covid restrictions. I also discovered a large part of the work was researching how to do things, and so I’ve started recording a set of “how to” videos:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA-_xnPePiDJ1bbDPJ-S5lEFg3DhfsLWj

Currently I’m working on walking over uneven ground:

https://hookedwit.co.uk/

 

I have generated a YouTube video with a step-by-step how I achieved this: