Week 9

This week was all about publishing to the Alpha channel of the Oculus Store.

I started by making a build of everything that I’ve done up until now. I made an entry on the Oculus Store, set up the name, etc. I uploaded the APK to the Oculus store, and during validation it failed. My…

Week 11

This week was a continuation of last week, and in the beginning I focused on lowering the number of SetPass (draw) calls.

After some great conversations in the OLP Discord chat, I realized that I hadn’t been using the Frame Debugger to the max. I went through all my plants, and disabled…

Week 4

Crab King VR is coming along nicely. This week I worked on the UI and added multiple scenes. The UI was challenging at first but I got the hang of it. I think my background as a mobile developer helped me to figure it out.

Week 2

This week, I continued with the Unity class, learning about lighting, physics, and animation. My plan for the coming week is to complete the…

Week 3

This week, I worked on some polish for the gameplay. I added a blood splatter when the user gets hurt. To accomplish this, I created a particle system prefab called PlayerBloodSplatter and spent some time tweaking the values to get it to a nice deep red. Even though crabs don’t have red blood, I made a stylistic…

Week 12

The final week! Week 12 was a short week as I am busy job hunting. I uploaded a build that I was happy with at the end of Week 11, so this week was all about preparing the proposal/budget documents.

The proposal document was fairly easy because I had kept my original copy up to date with…

Week 10

This week’s focus was optimization. I worked with Gabor Szauer from Oculus to pinpoint some specific issues with the build.

The first pass showed that I had a framerate of 12 FPS. Gabor said I was GPU bound, so I changed the settings for: Multithreaded rendering, Static Batching, Dynamic…

Week 6

This week was a short week for me, as my normal flow was disrupted by a company retreat. I did manage to add title cards between each scene, however. I decided not to add the overworld, as it seems like overkill for a game without any choices for which level to progress to next.