Context & Pitch
Context
What does the assignment ask you to do?
The assignment is to choose a area of game development you are most interesting in and, with the help of a brief, improving the skills you need for that area.
Initial Thoughts
What skills do you think you would like to work on for this project?
For this project I think I would like to develop my VR programming skills in Unreal Engine. Specifically skills related to allowing the user to interact with the virtual environment with hand tracking.
What are your initial thoughts on the project?
My initial thoughts on the project are that it’s good as it allows me to challenge and develop the skills that I’m most interested in and the skills that I will need for future jobs.
What products would you like to build to showcase your skills?
A product that I would like to build to showcase my skills is some sort of VR game demo that uses hand tracking.
What target audiences would you like to build something for? Why?
My target audience is people who enjoy to play VR games that have hand tracking compatibility.
What are the different job roles are you interested in within the games industry?
The jobs roles that I am interested in within the games industry are VR programmer, generalist programmer and gameplay programmer. Mainly I am interested in VR programmer but anything programming based is something I’m interested in.
What is your initial chosen brief and why?
Creating VR game mechanics for an adventure game. I want to create a VR game and this gives me the opportunity to do that.