Olivia Yin

Game Designer // CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST
 
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Come to Me

Multisensory VR Experience

"Come to Me" is an atmospheric, multisensory VR experience where players embody a celestial comet learning to perceive the universe through emotional and sensory exploration. Navigating through a speculative cosmos, players encounter personalized planetary entities, each acting as a distinct sensory layer—interlocking sight, sound, smell, and tactile feedback to cultivate deep mechanics of planetary attachment, belonging, and isolation.

DESIGN GENRE Multisensory VR / Experience Design
PRODUCTION TYPE Solo Project // Design & Development
TIMELINE & CYCLE 2021 // 3-Month Project
EXHIBITIONS & SELECTIONS • Official Selection // NYU ITP Winter Show (2021)

Technical Pipeline & Framework

VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT & COMPILATION
Unreal Engine & Oculus Quest 2: Programmed real-time orbital mechanics, physics-driven proximity detection, and continuous data attenuation curves. Handled optimization and level streaming pipelines to guarantee frictionless room-scale performance tracking.
SENSORY MODELING & FABRICATION
Blender Asset Construction: Sculpted organic, abstract 3D planet meshes embedded with dynamic material shaders. Designed multi-layered audio-visual behaviors where environmental textures alter real-time lighting states to simulate atmospheric boundaries.

Core Environmental & Sensory Pillars

PILLAR 01

Planet-nality: The Sensory Persona

Every planetary entity in the experience commands its own "Planet-nality"—a distinct sensory persona defined by a precise combination of customized aroma nodes, visual color tones, spatialized audio loops, and ambient rhythms. Instead of treating these features as separate decorative items, each sensory layer functions as an explicit facet of the world's underlying character.

These elements systematically articulate each world's unique historical background and emotional temperature. Through these deep algorithmic configurations, players learn to look past basic spatial movement, actively feeling and diagnosing the living emotional ecosystem of every cosmos they explore.

PILLAR 02

Planetary Intimacy: Proximity-Driven Emotion

The mechanics of planetary intimacy intentionally transform mathematical distance into raw human emotion. Each celestial body's spatial soundscapes and specific fragrance fields are heavily attenuated, meaning they only become perceivable when the player enters close orbital proximity.

This proximity constraint crafts an organic visual and behavioral metaphor for interpersonal vulnerability and trust. By adjusting their trajectory to draw closer, players transcend basic world map traversal, actively stepping into an intimate relationship built on real-time sensory exchange and resonance.

Cosmic Concept Artifacts & Pipelines