How to Play

This VR project is a gardening Sim, you would do things that you would normally do when gardening.

Controls

Use the controllers Track-pad and press forward where in the green walkway is, this will teleport you to that location. Use the back Trigger on the controllers to interact or pick up certain objects within the game. You can move around and see just like you would in the real world. In the app, you also use the controllers "menu" buttons, located above the track-pad on the top side of the remote, this is expanded on further in the watering section.

Adjusting time

The game has the option to change the in game time flow. By default, the game is set up so that it takes about 5-10 minutes for any event to happen or a plants's state to change. But, if you choose to change the speed of the game, go into the "Assets" folder in "Projects" and open the "timed prefabs". Each of the prefabs has the "Clock Multiplier" variable, it it set up to multiply the in game time by the integer given. The "30" shown in the image is the default multiplier time, to make the wait time much shorter, replace the current variable with a smaller integer. To make the time of events change to 30 - 60 seconds, change the multiplier to 1 for all the objects in "timed prefabs"

GAME PLAY

Inside the Shed with the told.

Outside the shed, The Water Can and the bucket

In the Shed you have tool and seeds. These are you intractable tools. You have the following items:

A Shovel to dig holes and pick compost up from the compost pile

A Scythe for cutting grass that grows around the garden plots

A Sheer for cutting plants and weeds that try to take over your garden

A Bug Swatter for killing bugs that run around the garden and the garden beds

A Radio to play music (it can be turned on and off)

A Bag of Bird Seeds to feed the bird that hides in the birdhouse

A Seed Machines to dispense different kinds of seeds to plant

A Watering Can to water plants (press the menu button on the remote to release water)

A Bucket to carry compost to and from the dirt plots

Weeds in the dirt plot and grass

Wacky Weeds and Grass

A garden should never have weeds!

These guys will cause your plants to grow slower.

To remove the grass use the scythe to cut the grass away and start bringing order to your garden.

To get rid of the weeds grab the Sheers from your shed. Walk up to the weed you want to get rid of and touch it with the Sheer and they will disappear. But be aware, they do grow back!

All three Seed machines with different kinds of seeds

Seed machine dispensing seed

Getting Seeds

These candy dispensers have been re-purposed to help organize the seeds in your shed! They are now Seed Machines

Each seed machine has 3 different types of seeds, you can tell what seed comes from what dispenser based on the images shown on the face of the machine. There are 2 different seed types: flowers and vegetables. To dispense a seed, touch the white crank. Once the crank is touched a seed with a correlating color will appear. Each crank dispenses a different colored seed, to make it easier to remember what seed you are planting.

Seeds in order:

Blue Iris: flower, color seed: light blue
Carrot: Vegetable, color seed: orange
Pumpkin: Vegetable, color seed: red
Sunflower: Flower, color seed: yellow
Purple/pink Daisy(?): flower, color seed: pink
Caladium: flower, color seed: purple
Mushroom: vegetable, color seed: white
Lettuce: vegetable, color seed: light green
Cabbage: vegetable , color seed: dark green

Once a seed is dispensed, a player can grab it and plant it in the garden plots (only if they made a hole in the dirt first!) to prevent the game from crashing the seeds vanish after a certain amount of time.

4 stages of planting and the dead plant and compost

Different kinds of plants you can have in your garden

A big mean bug

Plant the Plants

Now to the main part of the game, planting plants. In order to plant a plant you will first need to dig a hole, to do this grab your Shovel from the shed. Go up to one of the digging dirt and touch it with the shovel, this will dig a hole. After that go up to the Seed Machines to get a seed for one of the plants you want to grow. Pick up that seed and place into the hole, after that, a seeding will grow. Over time it will grow larger and larger.

Make sure to water your plant throughout this progress. If you don't they will die.

If the plants does die, you can start over by cutting out the dead plants with the Sheers. This is make Compost for your compost pile.

There are 9 different plants you can grow. Mushrooms, Blue and Purple flower, Sunflowers, Carrots, Cabbage, Caladium, pumpkins, and Bocchoy.

You can also plant seeds in the pots as well that are located next to the shed. These are a little different than the dirt beds because you can only plant flowers in these. You can not plant vegetables like pumpkins and carrots in these. They will also need to be watered as well but the benefit of planting seeds in pot is that they can not grow weed that would slow down there growing .

Water Can watering mushrooms

"Water" You Up To?

Plants need water in order to live and grow. If plants don't receive any water over time. They will die and turn into a dead plant.

To prevent this grab the Watering Can and walk up next to your plant, press the "Menu Button" on the VIVE or Space Bar to pour the water on the plants. Once watered they will be hydrated and live on to see another day.

The compost box

A plant that has given compost

You have two compost piles: Not Ready and Ready.

Whenever you cut off plant whether dead or alive with the sheers, it creates a compost pile. Take the compost to the not ready to with your shovel or bucket and place it into the Not Ready compost pile .

Over time the compost will become prepared and will it ready ti will move from Not Ready compost pile to the Ready Compost.

Take your shovel and move the ready compost to any of your plants. This will provide nutrients for plant making them grow faster. Adding compost also removes the damage caused by weeds.

The BirdHouse with the bird waiting for yummy seeds

If you like feeding birds, this games has them too.

From the shed, a player can pick up the Bag of Bird Seeds and carry the bag over to the bird feeder. Touch the bird feeder with the Bag of Bird Seeds. This will cause a pile of seeds to appear on the bird feeder deck, and a few moments later, a bird will pop out of the bird feeder's house. The bird will then peck at the pile of seeds, as the bird eats, the pile of seeds shrinks until there are no seeds left. Once the pile of seeds is gone the bird goes back into the bird feeder's house. The user can continue feeding the bird repeatedly throughout the game. In the image the bird has ate all the seeds.

A big mean bug

Debugging

There are also a lot of annoying bugs running around your garden. If you don't like them grab the Bug Swatter from your shed, you are able to pick the Bug Swatter up and swing it around, and start debugging!

The bugs come back after some time passes.

Orange tree

Lemon Tree

Other Stuff

You are also able to pick up and interact with the lemons and oranges that are growing on the trees around your garden.

Small Issues

In this project we encountered a small issue after the project was submitted, it turns out that the grass that grows around the doesn't destroy itself like we had hoped, instead it just removed the image of the grass, leaving the box collider behind in the scene. This sometimes cause the player to jump up onto the collider

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