Propagation: Paradise Hotel
A VR survival horror game whose gameplay I adapted to the Omni One VR treadmill at Wanadev Studio.
The game
Propagation: Paradise Hotel is a single-player VR survival horror game developed and published by Wanadev Studio, released in May 2023. You play Emily Diaz, trapped in the Paradise Hotel during a zombie outbreak and looking for her sister, mixing stealth, exploration, resource management and combat.
My contributions
- Adapted the gameplay mechanics and interactions for the Omni One VR treadmill, working within the constraints of the hardware.
- Worked closely with the design, QA and art teams to maintain high code quality.
Why it was interesting
Omni One is an omnidirectional treadmill: the player physically walks. Locomotion, input mapping and comfort assumptions that hold on a standard VR headset simply do not carry over. Teleport and stick-based movement stop making sense when your legs are the input device. The work was less a recompile than a re-think of every movement interaction against a different physical model, while keeping the frame budget intact on standalone hardware.