Ornament Express

Project Progress

In Production 100%

Genre

VR Puzzle Game

Team Size

18 People

Roles

QA Lead, Graphics Programmer, DevOps Engineer

Platform

Windows (OpenXR)

Unreal Engine 5

Duration

1 Year

Out now on

“Investigate strange oddities in Ornament Express, where you’re hired to recover your client’s belongings from an eccentric thief and his train of stolen artifacts. Explore a cabinet of curiosities throughout the train, visit carts holding odd puzzles, odder objects, and find hidden away secrets.”

Ornament Express is a VR escape room game developed during Y3. You were hired to recover your client’s belongings from an eccentric thief and his train filled with stolen artefacts. Explore a cabinet of curiosities throughout the train, visit carts holding odd puzzles and even stranger objects and uncover the hidden secrets of the Ornament Express!

What did I work on?

QA: Bi-weekly smoke tests
Performance Profiling & Optimisation (90FPS / 11,1 ms target)
DevOps: Automated Testing & Delivery Pipelines to Steam using Jenkins
DevOps: Steamworks Depot & Branch Management
DevOps: Error Monitoring using Sentry
Gameplay: Fire System for flammable objects
Gameplay: Several in-game items like the bouncy ball, apple and more
Simple Anti-Cheat Measures (Fade-to-black when the players head enters walls etc.)
Cel-Shading for forward-rendered VR