This is just me reflecting on the project as a whole, I know it has the potential to works with different clients in general, but ultimately this project was successful in developing a framework for others institutes to use, under my guidance. Basically I need to find the right people to get this project off the ground. I also look into the technical problems which I faced and finally what I learned from this conducting this work.

After all of my efforts to make this a little better than I expected, I got people to test it and it seemed really good in terms of feedback. Again, the quality of the product had enough to be able to be tested by a select group of people who are okay with VR technology.

This is the part where I thought about additionally information that could be implemented into the game, mainly visual feedback. Just some thoughts for onboarding and to make the experience for the player nicer.

This was then taking the sketches of the game and finally implementing them into the Unity Game Engine.

With this Unity Implementation, the focus was then the populate the environment. So people, the objects, the lighting and the sound of the museum experience. Then it would be implementing the VR player as well. So a lot at this point

The First part of this Unity Implementation was to create the Gray-box levels of the Level Designs that I created in sketch form, and finally it should be the main part of the museum experience. Additionally, this is a good structure from here

This is where I work on the mini-games, how would they look like in terms of NPC’s and even many other factors, such as the objects within the environment to make it seem like the player is ‘time-travelling’.

Making sketched out Levels would be the first step, thinking about various elements as to what would be the feedback to player progression, the user journey inside the virtual environment and also the ‘Artefact Rooms’. I also understood that these rooms would mostly be the same but the differing factor would be what would be placed inside these rooms. Theortically, if there were infinitely rooms designed they would mostly be the same, but artefacts in the rooms would be different. Although I can imagine, some of these rooms would actually have to differ to keep things from being ‘boring’

From here, it was to look at the game and how they would be controlled, but the realisation that games can be controled with just grabbing objects would be simple and perfect interactivity for players. As these were simple games, that’s what most of them needed, but some games came with different rules.

Another supervisor meeting, where I needed some advice on a couple of the game, but I was unsure of VR implementation. There were some changes that were necessary after careful considerations. So we need to talk about my concerns.

The question here will be how will the player know what is happening in each game and what visual information they would need for the feedback on the game state. Each game needs this definition and the with VR, it can be in the space or stuck to the VR screen,I felt that it being stuck to the screen would allow the player to know what the game state is without having to look around, but there are some games would have the UI in the environment to make sense of the game.

I started to realise that with the interactions in the game, the control schemes would have to complement the immersive material and make it easier for the player. Understanding that in a VR game, movement along with interacting with objects could be even more disorientating, so splitting those main forms of interaction would make things more easier to understand and less troublesome for that specific problem. Making places decide when they want to interact, which normally seems counter-intuitive, allowing the player to choose when they want to react gives them move choice in their own immersion.

Going to the next step from the previous rendition and excessive questioning of how things would be implemented, I used those to finally figure out how all of the Mini-Games would work from the players perspective, carefully considering the historical accuracy of the research material. All of the games are meant to be quick score filled games to not only entice players from player more, but also identifying pieces of information that would inadvertently learn certain aspects of the history.

From the game creations, it eventually lead me to understand how the each room within this museum should be set out, at least using the established framework from the previous stuff that I created, would allow me the theme each room for the upcoming prototype. Also I needed to consider the basics on the sound design to make this museum ‘feel real’ as if the person is in a museum in real life.

Considering my knowledge of implementing VR into Game Engine is extremely limited, I took the time to understand how to conduct VR Game Development specifically because I currently have experience in Unity, why not do it there. I looked into Youtube tutorials to get an idea of how to execute this effectively.

As this is VR virtual museum which pushes an immersive experience, the museum itself needs a structure. How will the player be in this museum? Well this needs to be a real as possible, so the journey using a tube train is relatable to London Transport, plus giving the illusion to the player that Museum is massive, and with it being in VR, the UI and the Levels would also have to accommodate the potential screen space and VR game movement.

From the reference material I managed to take from the London Transport Museum, I starting ideating the concepts for each Mini-Game, it came up to at least 8 games, covering the admin of the Transport system, the actual methods of transport from 1800-present and the engineering works. Mainly because it is a Museum going over the history of Transport, each mini-game would also have to be a believable world, so transporting the player to those specific time periods would also convince players.

Once I had some type of agreement, I took the time to take pictures for research material to allow the mini-games within the virtual museum to convey historical accuracies whilst keeping them still feeling like a ‘game’. Doing this research visit allowed me to give structure to all of the elements mainly thematic implementation for each ‘Artefact Room’.

This was me finally getting in contact with a Museum, who initially gave me vision for the theme of the Virtual Museum. It will help gauge what can be placed within this virtual space and how the create the Mini-games and their interactions

Finalising the Game Flow of any Virtual Museum that follows the ideology of free movement to allow users to discover history in whichever order they would like to