Helen L

Excited to announce "Hotel Infinity", a game where you explore a mysterious hotel in roomscale #VR

It's a follow-up to Manifold Garden and builds on a lot of the same ideas (portals, impossible spaces, etc)

Launching in 2025 for #PSVR2 and #MetaQuest3

hotelinfinityvr.com

#indiegames #vrgaming

#Vket Formula .3879 (2/2 posts). Also some weapons and avatars. The cyber industrial vibe of this Vket world was cool. Nice contrast to the organic feel of the others. #VR #digitalart

#Vket Formula .3879 (1/2 posts). This market world seemed mostly devoted modes of transport, mostly cars and car related assets. Most of us have driven some sort of car in #VRChat, some of us follow racing worlds or racing maps with different degrees of realism. #VR #digitalart

#Vket Hypothetical Garden Exoplant (2/2 posts). Particularly pretty straw hat assets you can buy on Booth.pm, booth with albums on display with accompanying music videos, and an avatar that looks like a cross between a statue and a robot. #VR #VRChat

#Vket Hypothetical Garden Exoplant (1/2 posts). This market world is an ornate dream garden of the imagination. Like in the other worlds, some interesting #VRChat -specific assets: developers that build VR communities w/ XP systems and Discord bots. Also, housing and other environment assets 🤩 #VR

#Vket AlterVista Midnight worlds (2/2 posts). ... and VR live shows from #FailedtoRender + VR films from Studio Penrose Films. Also in a booth was #SlimeVR Tracker for full body tracking. These products/events are examples of experiences that #VR brings that can only be had in the medium. #VRChat

#Vket AlterVista Midnight worlds (1/2 posts). This world is a giant futuristic mall where you can find lots of unique avatars and assets. Most interesting to me were the things unique to VR - #metamory is an app for storing and viewing #VRChat photos... #VR #digitalart

#Vket Anomalous Research Lab worlds (2/2 posts). More interesting assets for sale: cool shader wings, avatar tech (military and magical..?), camera assets that can stream footage from inside a virtual world. And maybe the scariest avatar at Vket👹. #VR #VRChat #digital

#Vket Anomalous Research Lab worlds (1/2 posts). Cool worldbuilding in this exhibition space. A shady org dedicated to research on "anomalous entities." Suspicious looking co-workers. But also assets like avatars + video players for purchase. #VR #VRChat

Love the playfulness of the Tea Party Rebake worlds at #Vket. Baked goods. An Earl Grey river. Avatars and shaders for sale. Also, links to streamers and ambassadors - good way to experience all the features the market worlds if you can make it into VRChat yourself. #VR #VRChat

Digital assets and avatars for sale in the #Vket world Morihoji Street Yapopueto. The world itself is beautiful... you wander through the autumn mist to come upon a village in the deep woods. The designer #Dangotaso did a great job. #VR #VRChat #digitalart #avatar

Parareal #Hawaii in #Vket 2025. What I noticed about this world is the IRL connections and exclusive merch. Links offsite to Amazon where you u can get Vket collab merch, and to IRL Japanese cities. Compare this to the Vket of old that was focused on digital assets from indie creators. #VR #VRChat

Parareal #Tokyo 🤩 Vket's parareal worlds are strange + wonderful. Maybe they're worlds that could've been or will be. Virtual versions of real places overlaid with #Vket booths and IRL businesses. Interact with some assets and you can find a real place to visit. #VR #VRChat #3D

Vket avatars on full display in one of the Pixelica worlds😍 #VRChat #virtualreality #digitalart #avatars

Well, well, well... it's that time of the year again! VKet Summer 2025 started on VRChat this weekend and will run for 2 weeks. Parareal worlds + digital artists + real world vendors... every year the market grows in leap and bounds. Excited to see what's new. #VRChat #virtualreality #Vket #digital

When Virtual Reality Makes Time Fly (and When It Doesn’t) A replication and extension of a 2021 study, “Time Compression in Virtual Reality,” shows a more complicated relationship between virtual reality and time perception.

When Virtual Reality Makes Time Fly (and When It Doesn’t)

VR may only “compress” time in larger virtual environments.
#xr #vr #mr #ar #virtualworlds

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/illu...

https://www.firstshowing.net/2008/the-many-colors-of-tarsem-singhs-the-fall/

https://www.firstshowing.net/2008/the-many-colors-of-tarsem-singhs-the-fall/

https://www.firstshowing.net/2008/the-many-colors-of-tarsem-singhs-the-fall/

Source: MUBI

Just rewatched #TheFall by #Tarsem. It's a singular experience. An epic fable that plays out in the most scenic places you can imagine. Filmed in ~20 countries. Widely known for its sheer beauty, the film tells an archetypal myth of life, death, and rebirth. #storytelling #worldbuilding #myth

Source: https://jocelyn.itch.io/oblige

Source: https://jocelyn.itch.io/oblige

Source: https://jocelyn.itch.io/oblige

#Oblige (2017). There's a fine line between a cozy game and one that portrays life's mundanity. Oblige has a story that focuses on the understated dramas that make up daily life. It's somehow mundane and dramatic at once. A quiet magic. #indiedev #gamedev #storytelling

#Immersive art and entertainment experiences can fail for a number of reasons, often intertwined: a bad business model, misconceptions of the experience by the public, an unexpected rent hike, poor execution of an idea, loss of a project's internal champion, and much, much more.

Source: https://www.yokogaomag.com/editorial/akira-kurosawa-dreams

Source: https://www.yokogaomag.com/editorial/akira-kurosawa-dreams

Source: https://www.yokogaomag.com/editorial/akira-kurosawa-dreams

Source: https://www.yokogaomag.com/editorial/akira-kurosawa-dreams

The #Dreams (1990) of #Kurosawa. Recurring dreams are powerful. They're connected to the deepest dramas playing out in our psyches and to the collective unconscious. They're both familiar and foreign. A portal key to the soul. #surreal #storytelling #film #worldbuilding

Source: Animation World Network

Source: Animation World Network

Source: https://www.cgmagonline.com/

Our caveman brain gets it. #Primal has no dialogue for its first season and minimal dialogue after that. Sound + color + image create a universal emotional landscape. Our one original instinct propels the story: the desire to survive. #animation #storytelling #worldbuilding

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Helen, a narrative designer for games. I also make XR experiences. Interactive mediums help us understand ourselves. My work has appeared with UKAI Projects, the Ottawa Design Club, the Digital Arts Resource Centre, and the Codame Art+Tech Festival.

www.lastdaysofparadise.com

Source: kanopy.com

A surreal, large-scale arthouse film with a single-hour long shot near the climax. Long Day's Journey into Night (2018) is a film that operates according to its own inner, secret logic. It has the power to mesmerize and reveal, but not explain. #surreal #film #storytelling

Totally. It’s such a gem. I felt like I was seeing and touching someone’s emotions.

Source: https://www.doublefine.com/games/psychonauts-2

Source: https://www.doublefine.com/games/psychonauts-2

Source: https://www.doublefine.com/games/psychonauts-2

Source: https://www.doublefine.com/games/psychonauts-2

I love the environmental storytelling in #Psychonauts2. Our experiences of reality can be so subjective. It's a challenge in any medium to convey this to an audience. The level design really lets you feel what it's like to be in someone else's mind. #worldbuilding #gamedev #gamewriting

Source: https://www.awn.com/animationworld/unicorn-wars-art-provoking-audience

Source: https://www.awn.com/animationworld/unicorn-wars-art-provoking-audience

Source: https://www.awn.com/animationworld/unicorn-wars-art-provoking-audience

Source: https://www.awn.com/animationworld/unicorn-wars-art-provoking-audience

#UnicornWars is like Care Bears + The Last Unicorn + Cain and Abel + Apocalypse Now + the Book of Revelation. Can't be described, must be experienced. #animation #storytelling

Source: https://www.waivio.com/@surrealfia/paprika-2006

Source: https://randomwire.com/paprika/

Source: https://theinnisherald.com/review-paprika-2006

Did anyone think creating a device that lets you enter someone else's dreams would turn out well? Then again it takes a visionary to tell us just how and why it goes spectacularly wrong. #SatoshiKon #Paprika #animation #worldbuilding

Source: https://reddead.fandom.com/

Source: https://reddead.fandom.com/

Source: https://gamerant.com/

Source: https://reddead.fandom.com/

NPCs that surprised me - Charlotte Balfour #RedDeadRedemption2. In an isolated corner of the map, an entire life plays out. You feel compelled to return and know her fate. Depending on the choices you make, every iteration of her destiny feels inevitable. #gamewriting #videogames

Source: https://asianwiki.com/Wu_Xia

Source: https://asianwiki.com/Wu_Xia

Source: https://asianwiki.com/Wu_Xia

Source: https://asianwiki.com/Wu_Xia

Interesting things happen when you mix genres. Take the Donnie Yen film #WuXia. A martial arts film and a detective noir. In a film like this, fight scenes are a type of dialogue and key to the mystery's unravelling.

Source: Criterion.com

Source: https://pen-online.com/culture/kwaidan-ghost-stories-on-the-silver-screen/

Source: https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Kwaidan/pages/Kwaidan-089.htm

Source: https://www.framerated.co.uk/kwaidan-1965/

#Kwaidan is a series of richly imagined supernatural folktales. Made in 1964, it was the most $$$ film made in Japan at the time. The director had to sell his house. Gorgeousness and scariness reminds me of #RobertEggers.