Blossom
Blossom is a VR game I made for the 2020 Unreal Spring Jam. The theme was “What is hidden in the snow comes forth in the thaw”; in Blossom, you start with a bare tree in a snowy landscape and paint colored flowers onto it to bring life to your environment. You can download and play it here: https://mahalis.itch.io/blossom
Final gameplay
Closeup of the post-finale floating petals effect
Early version of the tree generation—main trunk is an authored spline, subsequent branches and sub-branches are procedural
Debug visualization of the pivot points baked into the flower mesh’s vertex colors
Early Houdini test of the flower growth
Early Unreal test of the flower growth, using the baked pivots to scale individual flowers
First working version of the paint map, using the baked position data rather than world position
Grass card mesh
Experimenting with more gradual / patchy grass appearance
Purely circular grass appearance—looked too unnatural
Filling out the landscape with other trees