VR Experience
DarkThreads
- 2021
- Released
- Cream Productions
An immersive interactive sci-fi narrative experience released for VR and desktop PC, starring Dominic Monaghan and Kandyse McClure. Players wake in a futuristic penthouse with fragmented memory, guided by holographic assistants as they explore the environment, uncover clues about their identity, and shape the outcome of a high-stakes mission. Cream Productions describes it as an interactive VR science-future story experience, while its Steam page framed it as both VR and desktop-accessible.
- Shipped on Steam as a commercial interactive experience
- Won the Technical Achievement award at FIVARS 2021
- Premiered through the FIVARS circuit and was publicly positioned by Cream Productions as part of its interactive slate
Challenge
Deliver a narrative-driven, performer-led sci-fi story that worked equally well in immersive VR and on a flat desktop screen, while supporting the rich environmental storytelling, holographic UI, and high-fidelity content streaming the experience required.
Solution
Led development of the core VR framework and built a content streaming system that supported a richly detailed futuristic penthouse on both PC VR and standard desktop. Implemented level design, interactive environments, and the systems that supported performer-led narrative beats.
Outcome
Shipped commercially on Steam as both a VR and desktop-accessible interactive story, premiered through the FIVARS circuit, and won the Technical Achievement award at FIVARS 2021.
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Supporting video
Recognition
Exhibitions
- FIVARS 2021 · 2021
Awards
- Technical Achievement · FIVARS (Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories) · 2021
Contributions
- Led development of the core VR framework for the experience
- Built the VR level and content streaming systems
- Supported level design and interactive environment implementation
- Managed and mentored a small programming team across production
- Helped deliver a narrative-driven experience for both VR and desktop PC presentation
Collaborators
- Dominic Monaghan — performer
- Kandyse McClure — performer
- Cream Productions
