Project Proposal

I "Soiled" Myself

A VR gardening game where a person can experience having a garden of their own without the hassle of real bugs, dirt or the burning sun. Having a game that reflects the realistic aspect of gardening will allow users, who might not have the ability to garden in real life, to emerge themselves in a virtual garden to either learn or relax. The game will run in real world game time where plants will grow over time time but the user doesn't have to wait months for the plant to grow.

This project will be using the unity game engine along with the VRTK 4 open source. Users will need a virtual reality headset such as a Vive.

A virtual garden where a user can:

• plant and pluck plants - in ground or pots
• cut grass
• remove weeds
• kill/remove bugs
• water plants
• care for birds - (bird feeder, bird bath)
• case off rabbits/squirrel
• dig in dirt
• use shed- holds all tools user can use
• have a compost pile for user to fertilize the plants via picking it up and moving it to the plants, or remove dead plants into the compost pile

We will be using video game real time, which will affect the growing/wilting/death of plants and compost

The grass will make the game more realistic as then if a person wants to, they unearth more places to plant plants, or stick to the pre-turned areas.

We will also allow a person to pause and save their progress.

Nicole Laczny:

will work on:

• Script, interaction and animation for planting and plucking plants - digging in dirt using tools
• Script, interaction and animation for feeding/watering birds
• Script, interaction and animation for fending off animals
• Script, interaction and animation for killing/removing bugs
• Partial script, interaction and animation for for the tools

Conrad Ptasznik:

• Handle Github
• Some of the script for planting
• Watering plants
• Tool interactions
• Remove weeds and cutting grass.

VRTK 4 - https://github.com/ExtendRealityLtd/VRTK

Unity 3D engine - https://unity3d.com/unity

Professor Andy Johnson's Project 2 (office space) as a base line for user controls and movement https://github.com/uic-cs428-arvr-master/Project2

For 3d models - https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/ and https://www.cgtrader.com/

An 2D demo of how a gardening game should work: Unity 5 - Planting, Gardening, Harvesting Gameplay - Part2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfdYcoT-gI0