Thalassophobia is a VR horrific experience which puts the player in a shipwrecked sailor's shoes in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Swim across frightening waters to survive despite those lurking below…

Will you survive long enough to fire the distress signal or will the hostile waters sink you for good ?

Watch the trailer :

https://youtu.be/SjHocOcBN6M

We were a team of 6 video game students working on a 10 minutes interactive experience. The idea was to create stressful mood and a quite realistic way to embody a shipwreck-survivor. We had 3 months to imagine, design and produce the whole experience by ourselves.

In few words...

This project was challenging in many aspects :

• We worked on a VR game with 0 experience in XR technology.
• We had to design swim mechanics in VR (huge motion sickness issue)
• We lacked of equipment (computer and VR helmet) during the first half of the production.
• The project was 100% remote during the lockdown.