Finally, I followed this extensive tutorial to set up a Client-Host-Model physics-based FPS to serve as a sanity check for KaijuKart's Networking.

Player-player collisions were being handled by Unity's Rigidbody Networking systems, having a ground-hugging car became incredibly taxing on network resources. So I changed the karts to become hoverkarts, and everything got dramatically simpler.

I was working off an Oculus Rift DK2, but the intent was always to move to Vive Development. With a playtest in two days, my Vive finally shipped and I manically ported the game over two sleepless nights. The Vive operated on a dramatically different scale, so the whole game had to be rebuilt, scaled down by around 1000%.

Physics handling via network with the Oculus was infuriating, but fortunately TomorrowTodayLabs released an excellent open-source system for 1-to-1 physics handling on Vive called NewtonVR which I adjusted and implemented. 

With a playtest in half a day, I had no game end state designed. Physics interaction and handling was complete, however, and karts could only drive while turned right-side up. The solution was simple: if you get flipped over, you lose, and the last kart standing wins.

Concept by Esmeralda Duenas

Concept by Amanda Cook

Concept by Zixing Guo

Concept by Amanda Cook

Concept by Esmeralda Duenas

Concept by Esmeralda Duenas

Sketch by Bridget Schiffler

Concept by Amanda Cook

"Giant's World" reference images

"Racers' World" reference images

Early explorations for the racers.

Concepts by Esmeralda Duenas

Concepts for the Gender-Neutral racer.

Concepts by Esmeralda Duenas

Concepts for the Female racer.

Concepts by Esmeralda Duenas

Concepts for the Male racer.

Concepts by Esmeralda Duenas

Turnarounds for the final racer design.

Concepts by Esmeralda Duenas

Iterations of the Racer design.

Concepts by Esmeralda Duenas

Closeup of Hands for Racer Modeling.

Concepts by Esmeralda Duenas

Initial model of the Racer.

Modeling by Erin Caswell

Concept of the scale of Racetrack and Giant.

Concept by Amanda Cook

Networking multiple racer clients together.

First successful connection for cross-platform cross-client multiplayer.

Unity environment development.

Early modeling explorations.

Models by Amanda Cook.

Experimental explorations for hoverkarts.

Concepts by Esmeralda Duenas.

Modeling by Erin Caswell

Obtained on the Unity Store

You can download the Mac Client Here, and the Windows Client Here. The game only has one client; the first person to connect will be the VR player, and all others will be racers. 

Warning: These builds were made for the show to be operated by me only, and are pretty obtuse and buggy to set up and run. If you run into issues setting it up, feel free to contact me and I'll be happy to help.

This is the final design pitch presentation I gave which served as the basis for this site. It played on a loop in the background of the Show while the game was not running. You can download the pdf from Google Drive here.

Applicants to the design show needed to create a jury submission form which would be passed through a jury of peers and advisors. You can download my submission here.

I also created a poster hung at the final show documenting the design and process. You can download the poster pdf here.

At the end of the IxD Capstone process, wrote a 1-page retrospective of their project. You can download my pdf retrospective here.