SARAH ASSMUS
MUSHROOM HUNTER VR
Made in Unreal. A VR experience where the user navigates an adorable and magical forest and enjoys picking different types of mushrooms. Fairly low-poly, cute, relaxing and enjoyable. Certain areas of the forest will have rarer mushrooms. Voles will occasionally try to steal from your basket and you can press a button quickly in succession to try and save your basket contents. Playful music and fun sound effects will create a whimsical immersive environment. Contains: Game design page document, video, and extra photos.
COSMIC PENGUINS VR
60 hour submission for 2021 VR Game Jam. Worked with 4 other team members. My role was game designer, level building, project management, gameplay mechanics, and input system design. You switch between playing as a Cosmic Snow God and also shrink down in size as a Cosmic Penguin. As the Snow God you are tasked with saving the cosmic penguins from the evil killer whale, and as a penguin you can repair the iceberg that crumbles around you. You must save the penguins from peril!!
BARREL GAME
Barrel Game was a way to practice my coding skills and is still in development. With this project, I explored using the Surge package (click on the "candies" to make them explode smoothly), making joysticks from scratch, hinge joints, physics, and scoring. Contains: Gitlab folder, .exe build, and video.
GAME OF LIFE
As part of a project, I decided to recreate Conway's Game of Life from scratch using Unity Engine, a canvas panel, and toggles. After successfully completing this, I decided to take it further by creating a "Fungus" level where the rules are slightly adjusted. A first generation living cell will be green, followed by orange, and finally its third iteration will be red. In the fourth iteration, all surrounding dead neighbours of a dying red cell will become alive (green) and start living their life cycle out. If This creates an ever-growing "fungus" of living cells on the board. This was alot of fun to make! Contains: Gitlab folder, .exe build, and video.
HOT SPACE JUNK
Game Design Document
“Hot Space Junk is a high-speed VR game where you pick up and sort intergalactic trash as fast as you can. With an interesting extendable arm mechanic, shiny and fun graphics, and quick-as-a-whip dialogue and characters, put in your community service time while making the universe a cleaner place.”
360 TRAILER
3D modeling in Blender and an Interactive 360 Experience built in Unity
This is a trailer of some of my work with regards to 3D room creation, 3D asset creation, and an interactive 360 experience of...wait for it...my apartment! (I made it during COVID). Please click on the video to watch on YouTube. Enjoy and use your cursor to move around 360 degrees!
2D TRAILER WITH 3D MODELING WORKS
Highlights include 3D modeling, programming and 360 work in Unity. Please click HERE to see 3D stills (some have been updated since the making of this trailer). Please click "View More" to open in YouTube.
AR DEPTH MASK
Made using Vuforia in Unity
I made a Sierpinski fractal in Blender, and then took each procedurally-generated triangle and divided them into sections with 4 different materials. Then, I animated those sections in different ways using coding and Tweening. After that I tested out using a VR occlusion material to create a depth-effect on a regular blender cube. I put my Sierpinski triangle in it, created an image target using the Vuforia package, and tested it using my webcam.
CALLING ME
Please click "View More" to watch video in HD on YouTube with music! This is a video showcasing me in various locations through-out a 7-month backpacking trip. The timing and placement of the shots are not linear to maintain interest and intrigue. In the beginning of the trip I knew I wanted to make a video at the end, but I didn't know exactly how I was going to connect all the clips together. I started creating short clips of me spinning in areas I thought were particularly amazing in an attempt to capture the feeling of really being there in that moment. My aim was to create a video with a common thread and a sense of dynamic movement to instil a feeling of adventure in whoever saw it.
