Uses HDRP 17.4.0 with Shader Graph and VFX Graph, Local Volumetric Fog for sandstorms, and Custom Pass for heat haze.

The newspaper effect copies the menu camera's color buffer after post processing, processes it on the GPU, and displays it in a RawImage. It combines grayscale, subtle halftone dots, paper grain, and uneven ink coverage. The halftone algorithm adapts Daniel Ilett's MIT licensed work.

uGUI and TextMesh Pro build the newspaper and player interfaces. DOTween enlarges the newspaper photograph over 1.8 seconds, then fades its ink effect over 1.4 seconds. UIEffect 5.11.7 supplies dissolve and page turning light effects.

Seven material pairs across eight dormitory renderers drive the aging transition. Three RenderTextures blend clean and weathered base colors in linear space, while normal strength, window properties, and rain stains change in sync. Temporary resources are released and original materials restored on completion or interruption.

The opening timeline synchronizes temporary terrain height animation with an independent HDRI sky rotation and material aging. Terrain collision retains the final height data; the original terrain references and sky settings are restored when the transition ends or is interrupted.

MapMagic manages fixed terrain tiles and LOD using stitched USGS Sheep Range DEM data. A shared C# height source feeds terrain geometry and slope materials. Terrain Tools 5.3.2 supports local editing.

Gradient Terrain Authoring reconstructs terrain transitions. C++ and OpenGL perform the offline solve; Python processes data, refines the solution, and validates results. Unity reads the measured heights and the precomputed 800 metre transition.

Integrated industrial environment assets and a moving cableway with the terrain to support the exploration route.

Designed the narrative framework and the four-level exploration route around working class memories shaped by the 1970s, using photography, diary entries, and scrapbooking as the core interactions.

Connected photography to Echo discoveries, using target framing and visibility checks to link photographed objects with narrative discoveries. Unity 6000.4.6f1 and C# implement the interactions, with Input System 1.19 handling player input.

Used JsonUtility to read and write save and diary data. Photos, scrapbook layouts, Echo discoveries, and the grandfather's diary use separate local storage directories.

Blender 5.2.2 and Python support modeling and parametric generation. Environments also integrate Industrial Harbour, RocksGobi, Lands, and RockyDesert assets, with a CC0 sky HDRI from Poly Haven.

Unity MCP and Unity AI Assistant assist with scene operations and Console inspection; Blender MCP supports the art workflow. Git and Git LFS manage source files and large assets.

Each firefly maintains its own phase. The swarm sums the sine of phase differences between individuals, scales the result by coupling strength and elapsed time, and normalizes it by swarm size to adjust each phase.

Unity commands smoothly raise or lower coupling for either interactive swarm. Disturbance reduces coupling and adds individual phase drift. The background swarm keeps zero coupling and ignores synchronization commands.

Each zone uses its own LD2410B radar and analog light sensor. Radar distance and movement energy filter the motion input; stationary targets do not add disturbance. Light readings are mapped between configurable thresholds.

Motion and light combine into a smoothed disturbance value for each zone. That value changes motion, brightness, visible population, and phase behavior without affecting the other interaction zone or the natural background.

Each firefly has a position, direction, random turning time, and blink phase. Movement reflects at strip boundaries, while brightness envelopes soften the light pulses. The background uses a slower cycle and a cosine envelope.

Separated individual motion and brightness logic, swarm coupling, and hardware input and LED output into distinct firmware files, allowing behavior to be tuned independently of wiring and communication.

UDP carries sensor telemetry and commands between ESP32 and Unity. Commands include unique IDs and acknowledgements; disturbance override buttons wait for confirmation before updating their state. Device discovery and connection feedback support setup and monitoring.

Unity maps disturbance to city sound intensity and blends the soundscape over time. Separate automatic and manual controls manage nature audio, city audio, light input, and disturbance for demonstrations and calibration.

Factories generate continuous income with diminishing returns and an overall cap, while mining pays out in timed stages. Affordability checks connect the available budget to planting, construction, and extraction.

Factory pollution periodically removes trees and updates the environmental state. Players can demolish factories to stop their ongoing ecological cost.

Trees occupy shuffled free grid cells, sample terrain height, and grow through scale animation with randomized prefabs, rotation, and final size.

Factories cluster around existing plants and reserve their footprints to prevent factory overlap. Placement first avoids trees, then allows clearing when space is limited. Mining removes trees within a sampled circular area.

Normalized tree, factory, and mining counts feed a weighted environmental score. A shared effects API blends between parameter snapshots, while planting thresholds progressively reduce sand and heat and change sky clarity and cloud coverage.

The decision UI connects planting, construction, demolition, and mining actions to the economy and placement systems. Environment and money events refresh the displayed state.

A shared global wind vector drives shader scrolling. Airborne sand uses layered transparent surfaces with noise, scene depth fading, and distance fading to soften intersections and layer boundaries.

A custom URP renderer feature supports Render Graph and distorts the scene color for heat haze. Depth and world height masks control where the distortion appears.