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ZOSU_Studios_LLC
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9 months ago

Built ZOSU Zoo VR/Mobile in a week - AI + Desktop Editor <3

I recently joined and have finished my first version of ZOSU Zoo in a few days with maybe 30-40 animals.  I found the Desktop Editor fairly intuitive and the AI helped greatly with coding!

https://horizon.meta.com/world/10107112905467418

Pros: I was just doing this for fun to try to make a cross-play mobile and VR Zoo with in-app purchases and was surprised how well it was all setup, especially since I don't know TypeScript, didn't do any of the tutorials (used a template as a starting point) , and I couldn't seem to find a full coding guide but TypeScript in the AI was able to do the job.  This was setup well for rapid testing and multi-player, something that is much harder in the normal VR apps to make!

Challenges: I had the hardest time setting up in-app-purchase to make a permanent boost jump with coding, could not upload rigged models and had to manually edit or chop up models, slow to upload models as I had to track down and rename textures to add to them, no materials so had to edit most textures before uploading, and I never could figure out all of the multiplayer testing features before making the app visible.  I also had to reduce complexity because I hit the memory target cap and could not figure out how to add my own sky box, also the lighting was a little funny.

Next Steps: expand the world, add quests and gameplay objectives (right now just look at or carry around animals).

 

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    ZOSU_Studios_LLC
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    8 months ago

    Many people that join this zoo spontaneously decide they are going to go collect all of the animals and bring them to the spawn area. I think this is great and can look really funny.

    So I started to put some animals at the end of jump courses and a maze, and I will login in randomly and see people "clreared" the whole zoo and placed the animals at spawn. 

    I am not really sure what to do next with this other than more optimization and animals, but the last few days it looks like I've been hitting +/- 30 hours of player time and day so I guess people are at least checking it out 🙂 . Other times I join and people are having like sword fights with animals.... anyways ... trying to brainstorm what kind of "gameplay" to enhance this zoo with. I want to add ridable animals but I think it will kill performance too much.

     

     

     

     

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