Dollface is a virtual reality dollhouse experience / sandbox game world based around exploration, toy experiences, and solid, physical interaction.

I built it solo using Unity and C#, and made most of the 3D models using Blender. This project involved designing many of my own interactions from the ground up as well as adapting the SteamVR SDK. I created systems for customisation of the environment including painting, breaking objects, redecorating, cooking, burning and creating new objects, recording original music, photography and more...

Dollface - I modelled the keyboard in Blender after a Casio keyboard I had as a child, which allowed you to play with 100 different instruments, from the classic piano to a ringing phone.

I built on the features of the original, responding to user feedback to allow recording compositions to create in-game physical casettes to play back or layer to create multi-track recordings, and also allowing the user to swap in different clips which are then pitch-shifted to be played on the different keys.
Players can also record their own voice clips as samples to play pitch-shifted across the keyboard

The kitchen is my favourite room in the dollhouse.
It was a sandbox where I explored and experimented with SteamVR, with interaction styles and physics, learning the quirks of VR through bugs like "asparagus stuck to hands" and "mushrooms fall through pan when pan is grabbed." It was a great testing area for tweaks to physics which might not be as noticable somewhere else.

There were so many physics based objects in the room by design - before I had a plan for the dollhouse, my main idea was that it should be rich and full of so much stuff to do and interact with that the player felt free to explore or ignore what they liked and have different experiences to each other.

Dollface VR – the laptop was one of the many things I made for this project at a time when the landscape of VR equipment was changing – at the time, everyone was using a fairly clunky controller that didn't allow individual finger movement, so I had not seen a real pc or in-game buttons of this kind anywhere.

I used Steam VR and set the user's index fingers pointed when approaching the laptop or keyboard, allowing them to use their index fingers to type on the real QWERTY keyboard. This worked well although it's dated now with hand tracking and more precise controllers.

Dollface is a love letter to feature creep.
To manage everything, I made modular components so that I could quickly add new items or tweak settings and apply them to all items with the same components. I tracked the player's activities to reward them with trophies, money, and unlocking rewards.

Alien Orchestra was a game made and submitted for a game jam in 2020. I worked with a sound engineer to create a VR game based on the idea of repairing alien instruments to restore their sound.