A Chilling Autumn Night

Download the Unity build here

What’s This?

A Chilling Autumn Night is a virtual reality haunted hayride experience where you defend your hay from monsters with your trusty flashlight. I was the producer for this project, and led our team of 9 to develop it for an interactive media exhibition event, FUSE, hosted at the Peoria Riverfront Museum.

My Process

Skills Applied

Preproduction
- collaborated + assembled GDD
- assigned preproduction tasks
Vertical slice milestone
- set up roadmap + assigned tasks
- had a basic tractor setup with graybox ghosts
- game ran at 2 FPS in Unity
  - remedied by baking lighting
Alpha milestone
- monster models and environment assets imported
- game ran smoothly in Unity editor, horribly in build
  - replaced cornstalk models with 2D images
  - narrowed down scope
Beta milestone
- set up meetings outside of class
  - ghost model had 1+ million tries, and 7 of them were loaded in a scene (source of performance issues)
  - ghost is retopo’ed
- slowly re-added content stripped away from FPS issue
Gold master
- prioritized list of bugs and polish ideas
- set up exhibit schedule for FUSE event
- created a guide for newbie VR devs