This VR game was developed based on Oculus Quest 2 and using Unity as the engine. Players can walk around, move, teleport, and interact with characters and items to explore the game world, solve puzzles, finish tasks and achieve different narrative endings.
There are three main scenes in the game: the starting place, the spaceship and the forest. Every time the players start or restart the game, they will begin in the starting place, in which they can get themselves familiar with the actions, read the developers’ name list and walk into the regular game at any time.
After getting into the regular game, firstly the players will arrive in the spaceship. By the first time the players come into the scene, the human character “Master” will give some background information from the view of human beings, relay a series of tasks to the players, and tell the players how to transfer between the spaceship and the forest.
In the forest scene, there are spirit characters “Oins” staying around different spots. Once the players are close enough to a spot, the Oins nearby will separately give different pieces of information from the view of the forest spirits and relay another series of tasks (puzzles). Except for these, the players are able to explore freely until they finish part of or all the tasks they have.
To finish the tasks from the human beings, the players will have to collect different crystals on specific plants according to the information given on the tablets in the spaceship scene, bring them back and put them inside the container of the analysing machine. After all the crystals have been analysed, the game will come to the end after the players get out of the spaceship under the order of the Master. Whether the End 1 or the End 2 is going to be shown depends both on the progress of the tasks from the Oins and the players’ choice.
Same kind of plant displaying on the tablet in the spaceship scene
In the Oins’ tasks, the players find clues from the voices or by exploration, solve the puzzles according to the alchemy manuscript and activate the alchemy matrix in the forest. There will be a ray with a button to control it after all tasks are done.
By the end, if the players finished the Oins’ task, the players can choose to use the ray to hit the Master’s spaceship. The forest won’t be bothered and the Oins can live their lives as before. If the players choose not to, or they haven’t finished the Oins’ task, it will come to the End 2, in which the Master goes back and bring more and more spaceship to start their colonization in the Oins forest.
Appendix: dialogues appearing in the game
Master’s
| Scene | Content |
| The first time the players get into the spaceship. | “I’m the greatest botanist in the world, you may call me Master!” “You should be grateful to assist me, I need you to get something for me from your nasty forest. [the radiated, killing forest] Now, go collect every plant on these tablets.”(Master slap the guide on the table) “If you try to escape or be late I will destroy you, your kind and your forest!” |
| A hint to tell the players where to go if they can’t find the way to transfer themselves to the forest scene. | “What an ignorant creature!” “The exit is the glowing white spot, just behind you!” |
| The players go back to the spaceship without any plant crystals. | “Look at the time. You’d better finish your work before I lose all my patience.” |
| If the players explore freely in the forest for too long a time. | (The player can hear the voice of the master from far away) “What are you doing! Why haven’t you come back!” |
| When it comes to the end. | “Hahahahaha, good! Just like what I expected, your plants are the best for our new energy resource! “You are useless now, disappear from my sight! ” (player been kicked out from ship) |
| End 1 in which the players use the ray. | “What! What’s happening…no, STOP!!! ” |
Oins’
| Scene | Content |
| A group of Oins near the entrance (the transfer gate) of the forest. | (all) “Here, come here, One of us!” [excited voice] (one) “We all worried about you, he took you away! (messy) “What happened? Does he hurt you? What does he want? He wants to take our forest! He wants to destroy our forest! What will happen to us![ Oins talk anxiously] (all) “Bandit! Bandit!” |
| A group of Oins near the legendary manuscript of the matrix. | (one) “Ancient forests and our ancestors will help us to prevent this great evil. This! Is the legendary Manuscript of Matrix. You will take it! Use the alchemy matrix and we are going to defeat him!” (all)“Defeat him! Defeat him!” [Oins excited] |
| One Oin near the pathway. | (one)”Don’t resist that human now. Work on both tasks for the moment, we’ll finally let him pay the price. Now go for it!” |
| A group of Oins near the alchemy matrix. | (several) “Here, you found it!” (one) “This is an ancient alchemy matrix. According to records, it can provide huge power in a second, just like a big cannon. All we should do is get the materials prepared and wait for that human’s spaceship to rise up.” |