CASE STUDY
An immersive interactive experience that invites players to reflect on life, time, and existence through gameplay. We offer a new way to face what we've always feared.
Overview
Never End is an immersive VR experience that blends physical interaction with storytelling to explore one of humanity's most universal questions — the relationship between life and death.
During this exprience, we offer a new way to face what we've always feared.
MY WORK
team
DeepSea Indie Game
Duration
8 Weeks
year
2022
The Fact
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We will all lose someone.
And when that moment comes, no one really knows what to do.
No one teaches us how to face it.
We're told to move on — but never told it's okay to stay with it for a while.
We made Never End to create that space.
Not to heal.
Not to answer anything.
Just to let people feel, question, and imagine what we're usually too afraid to think about.
We live in a culture that hides death away.
But hiding it doesn't make us braver — it makes us lonelier.
Never End brings death back into the conversation.
Not as something to fear, but as a way to understand life more honestly.
And to feel a little less alone when facing loss.
A video demonstration of this process available.
Inspirtion
Research
Unity of Universe and Human
A theory of the relationship between universe and human in ancient Chinese philosophy. The relationship between universe and human is closely linked and inseparable.
Zhuangzi thought that " Universe, nature and I come into being together, and all things and I are one."( On the equality of things)
Is there sameness in all things in universe and nature?
Theory of unity of universe and human:
Perspective of modern science:
From the perspective of matter, all things have the same root. Human, nature and universe are closely linked, and the origin is the same.
Both the universe and human beings can trace back to the smallest particles that make up themselves: molecules, atoms and even quarks.
As a role, both people and the nature have to go through the process of growth, prosperity, decline and death. All things should follow the objective law, that is, "Tao".
The universe has life and death like people. when the entropy of the universe reaches the maximum value of the universe, it will reach the heat death of the universe.
The universe and human have sameness. Are there then beings that are as conscious as man?
Animism
A world view that sees everything in heaven and earth - animals, plants, the environment, the weather, even words, pictures, buildings or other artefacts - as subjects with souls, capable of thinking and gaining experience, and capable of manipulating or influencing other natural phenomena and even human society.
Consciousness of Quantum
Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Quantum Soul) believes that human consciousness (or soul) arises essentially as a "physical response to quantum mechanics".
The quantum system in the brain cells instantly collapses into "consciousness".
As the universe is "materially immortal", consciousness itself does not "die out".
All things are made up of atoms and have the same nature, then they could all be living things. Motion is the form of existence of matter, and quanta are the smallest units of matter, then matter may all have consciousness.
Is the world then still what we perceive it to be?
BrainStorm
Conclusion
And We Started
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Ideation
Philosophically
Discuss the existence form and essence of life
Think about "souls" and "reincarnation" in philosophy and quantum mechanics
Aim
Emotionally
Experience a different life journey, reflect on the meaning of life
Feel the emotional ties that span the reincarnation
Reduce the fear of death
Theme
All things have life and consciousness
Life takes on different forms of reincarnation
World view
Life exists in all things
What we perceive as death is not necessarily the end of life
Consciousness or proto-consciousness is one of the basic properties of the universe
After the death of the physical body, the consciousness does not disappear, but returns to the universe
After the death of the body, consciousness will return to the universe, and then enter the next object to experience another form of life
Through countless reincarnations,
the bonds between lives still remain
Story Structure
GamePlay
User Gmaeflow
Then Made It Real
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Concept Reference
distributing centre of consciousness
Black Hole & planet
Tumbleweed & Desert
Character Design
Tumbleweed
We referenced the short animation Tumbleweed, and we used low poly style branches to simulate the natural tumbleweed.Due to the varied and complex morphology of the tumbleweed. In order to differentiate the shapes of the different tumbleweeds, Blender's node modeling was used here to make a suitable model.
Model
NPC
The wild boar is extremely adaptable to its environment. Habitats span the temperate and tropical zones, from semi-arid climates to tropical rainforests, temperate woodlands, semi-deserts and grasslands. It is omnivorous and eats whatever it can. Choosing this creature can confuse the behavioral intentions of NPCs and interfere with the player at first. This is a good way to push the plot.
Manuscripts
Model
Black Hole
By analysing the structure of the black hole, in order to give a better visual effect to the black hole in the game. We chose to use unity directly to create the black hole.
Three different forms of black holes, made by unity's particle system.
Character Design
BrainStorm
