Josh's Capstone Adventures

While we’ve been working on our escape room project, one thing that I’ve had in the back of my mind is how, as part of our requirements, we need two physics based puzzles. Originally I had an idea to do something with a scale/balancing beam. This would allow the users to pick up items scattered…

As an idea for something our escape room game I wanted to utilize a 3D model for a keypad. I wanted to be able to allow the user to click buttons numbered 0-9 as well as confirm and clear buttons. Unfortunately the searches that I did for free 3D models on the internet didn’t really…

We have reached the midpoint of our design project and I am happy to say that my team has kept to the pacing that we set up in our project plan. We are working on an escape room game and by this time in the project we were set on having most of the generic…

I spent a bit of time working on creating a good tutorial puzzle for the escape room game that my team is creating in Unity. It involved taking an inventory component that had already been created and using the equipped item to interact with the environment. Putting a lone book that was left out back…

Most of my project work this week has been all about setting up an inventory for our escape room players. I first started off by just getting a rough outline of what the inventory screen would look like. My team and I thought about it and decided that we really only anticipate needing an inventory…

I have been working with Unity now for about a year and a half. I first started working with it after being moved onto a new project at work. At first I felt pretty overwhelmed, but I think that was partially due to the fact that I was jumping into a project that was already…

Recently I found out that my team’s capstone project will be to design an escape room game filled with multiple perplexing rooms and puzzles for a user to try to work their way through. This is exciting to me partially because I love solving puzzles, but also because my team has decided to create the…

As the final course of my journey here at OSU is beginning, it seems like an opportune time to take a look back at everything that I have achieved over the last four years. Before OSU, I had originally obtained a degree in Aerospace Engineering. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with…

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