For ~1.5 months I spent my evenings and weekends to make my first VR game. My girlfriend had no idea I had any involvement in the making of this game - let alone that I was going to propose to her.

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The first levels are deliberately "generic" looking, to lead her astray and make the surprise (9:36) even bigger.


💖 Hints/insiders in the game:
• "Welcome to a new chapter in your life"
• Ring collection.
• "...help me first and then you can play with more rings..."
• We used 7x"chicken" as a nickname, which is why there are 7 chicken to upright.
• "need your help over at the school"; we met at a school.
• A paper landscape in a school locker was my "pickup line".
• Had our first date on the Golden Gate Bridge.
• Modelled part of our flat.
• We have a love/hate relationship with our Roomba.
• While she was playing I switched into a similar bowtie/shirt as the robot.
• etc.


🎨 Helping artists:
• Voiceover of Robot: Carly Thomas
• Drawings in this video: Chiara Hubner Travezan ( https://chiaraht.wixsite.com/chiaraht )
• Voiceover of Roomba: Dameon O'Boyle (   / dameon-o-2153bb1   )


🥂 Since I didn't have endless spare time I was super grateful to be able to use some free assets as well:
• Barn: https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/...
• Flatbed Truck: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/1938-...
• Fences: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/fence...
• Low Poly Cars: https://free3d.com/3d-model/cartoon-l...
• Low Poly Clouds: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages...
• Grass: https://github.com/angelsophia1/Grass...
• Cobwebs: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/cobwe...
• Abandoned House: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/aband...
• Airplane: https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/...
• Radiator: https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/...
• Corrugated Sheets: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/damag...
• Path Creation Tool: https://github.com/SebLague/Path-Creator
• Cosmos Laundromat Soundtrack:   / cosmos-laundromat-first-cycle-music-1  
• Various Textures: https://3dtextures.me/
• Various Textures: https://free-3dtextureshd.com/
• Various Textures: https://www.cgtrader.com/

🎵 Music
• Jakub Pietras - Following the Suspect: https://artlist.io/song/82820/followi...
• Ian Post - Can't Stop Won't Stop (instrumental): https://artlist.io/song/7070/cant-sto...
• Mathieu Auvray & Sebastian Kraus - Cosmos Laundromat (track 1) :   / cosmos-laundromat-first-cycle-music-1  
• 2050 - Neon Skies: https://artlist.io/song/65423/neon-skies
• Leon Laudenbach - Crawling Back: https://artlist.io/song/78296/crawlin...
• Skipp Whitman - Aisle Thots: https://artlist.io/song/79508/aisle-t...
• Aves - Hot Chocolate: https://artlist.io/song/83496/hot-cho...
• ANBR - Yearning: https://artlist.io/song/98314/yearning
• We Dream of Eden - Outside In: https://artlist.io/song/97375/outside-in

🌟 Free software used:
• Unity: https://unity.com/
• Blender: https://www.blender.org/
• Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/
• Visual Studio: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/
• Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/


👴 More of my stuff online:
• My website & other projects: https://www.mischakolbe.com/images
• My blog: https://mykolbe.wordpress.com/