Player
Game World
Interactable Environment
Weapons
Fight Enemies
Life System
We created a first-person VR action game in which the player survives against a continuously spawning horde of zombies. The player begins the game with 25 health. Our fully animated zombies pursue the player using a navigation mesh and attack once in range, reducing the player’s health by 1. If the player reaches 0 health, the game application quits.
To avoid damage from zombies, the player must move around. The player character has a full animation set for walking forward and backward, as well as turning. The character’s feet have inverse kinematics, allowing them to touch the ground whenever desired, including on uneven terrain.
To fight zombies, the player can use a sword, which has full physics via a rigidbody. Both the player’s hands and the sword also have trigger colliders. On contact between a hand collider and a sword collider, the player can grip the sword with a button on their controller.
The game takes place in a mountain valley with a village at its center. The player character spawns in a house whose door is interactable; it can be opened or closed by standing near it. The player can explore the hand-sculpted wilderness as far as the mountains.
Talmadge is a computer science student expecting to graduate from George Mason University in the spring of 2022. His hobbies include working on personal programming projects, playing electric guitar, web development, and reading.
Wren is a MS student in computer science, class of 2023. Her field interests include VR telerobotics, video game design, autonomous robotics, and AI ethics. She spends her free time doing volunteer research projects, playing Baldur’s Gate 3, and listening to Young Scrolls.
Noah is a Computer Science undergraduate student at George Mason University, and he is expected to graduate in Spring 2022. He is interested in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Web development and App development. When he is not studying or improving his coding abilities, he enjoys playing basketball, soccer, and working out.
James is a Computer Science major that is slated to graduate in Spring of 2022. He enjoys watching and playing sports like basketball with his favorite basketball team being the Washington Wizards. James has interests in AI/ML and software development.
Rashid is a senior at George Mason University in Computer Science. His focus is on networking, and AI. His expected graduation is in May 2022. He likes to play guitar, and watch movies in his free time.
Our robot character features an inverse kinematic system that allows his limbs to respond naturally to the player's motions. Space Robot Kyle can track your hand movements, grip positions, and distance from the floor. When the player crouches in real life, you can witness our characters legs bending as he lowers himself towards the ground. Try walking around in the game and picking up the sword for yourself!
We designed the environment as an artistic choice with the theme of a beautiful countryside with a medieval village. The player can walk in the environment without destroying the objects.
The door in the house the player starts in is something made with the thought of an automatic opening process. There is a trigger in the form of a cube with a box collider that is invisible for the player, but will make it so the door opens once the player walks in the area the cube resides over. This method of triggers makes other interactions possible within the game.
The sword can be picked up with both your left hand and right hand. When the sword is picked up by the robot, the robot can either swing the sword or throw the sword to inflict damage on the zombies.
Zombies spawn from a single template zombie out of the player’s reach, at any of 32 spawn points. They pursue the player using a navigation mesh, and have animations for idling, walking, attacking, and dying.
The player begins the game with 25 health. When zombies are in range of the player, they perform an attack animation and inflict 1 damage. When the player runs out of health, they die, and the game ends.