Unreleased – Oculus Quest
The Big House
A detective mystery in VR that uses interactive conversation–the player’s voice–as its primary mechanic.
You’re a detective assigned to your department’s most notorious beat: solving the gruesome crimes committed by your 8 y/o daughter’s dolls and stuffies.
The Big House takes the, “Let’s pretend we’re…” of childhood fantasy, and invites players to get soft-boiled and silly. Our goal was to push the possibilities of dramatic, performative gameplay within an immersive VR experience.
Ultimately, solving the mystery is all in service of helping a little girl understand that nothing has to be perfect; we should all celebrate our mistakes.
Lead Designer
Conversation Designer
Lead Writer
Originated studio IP, including lore, story, and characters, with buy-in from external client.
Designed conversation architecture pipeline, integrating an ASR/NLP system that played nice with Unity.
Wrote over 5000 lines of dialogue for diverse cast of (fluffy) characters in 4-hour play experience.
Coded all branching dialogue scenes and voice-first minigames in scripting software (Ink).
Authored Intent suites in Amazon Lex, training ASR tools to learn IP-specific words–harder than you’d think!
Cast over a dozen actors in the Bay Area, and voice-directed all recording sessions.
