Designed and developed Escape from Dino Island VR, a room-scale desktop Virtual Reality survival game built for the HTC Vive headset and two handheld motion controllers. Set on a hostile island environment, players must navigate the terrain, manage real-time health and ammunition, and defend themselves against aggressive dinosaur attacks using firearms. Utilizing the HTC Vive’s room-scale tracking, dual-controller interaction, voice-command restarting, and dynamic spatial HUD elements, the experience culminates in locating a radio transmitter to call for helicopter extraction.

The primary objective of this project was to leverage room-scale VR hardware, head-mounted displays, and tracked motion controllers to create an immersive survival simulation. By integrating real-time visual feedback—such as dynamic blood splatter damage indicators and head-mounted status tracking—the application explores spatial combat mechanics, environmental navigation, dynamic threat handling, and multi-modal user input (motion controls and speech recognition) within a virtual reality environment.

Key Features & Capabilities

• Room-scale 6DoF tracking using the HTC Vive Virtual Reality headset and two tracked motion controllers
• First-person combat mechanics featuring firearm defense against AI-driven dinosaur threats
• Dynamic head-mounted HUD displaying real-time health and ammunition telemetry
• Visual damage feedback system using progressive blood-overlay effects corresponding to health depletion
• Integrated speech recognition engine supporting voice-activated restart commands (“RESTART”)
• Objective-driven win/loss game loops featuring radio rescue signaling, helicopter extraction, and restart sequences

To govern dynamic threat behavior and dynamic NPC responses, a custom Finite State Machine (FSM) was developed for the dinosaur AI. Each behavioral state triggers a corresponding animation clip linked directly to the entity’s movement and combat logic: