Home Is Where The Trash Is

As a poor raccoon who has just been evicted before a big storm, you need to suddenly do some urban camping in a trash-filled alley. Using garbage, cardboard, trash cans, and your wits, you must build a suitable shelter capable of surviving the stormy night in this adorable physics-based hand-puppet driven VR game. After playing this game, you will understand why raccoons always make an absolute mess with your trash, even though it wasn't their intention.

Compatibility/Testing: The game was designed for hand tracking on the Meta Quest 3, but it also supports the Meta Quest touch controllers. I have tested it through Meta Quest Link and VirtualDesktop+SteamVR as playable on the desktop with the Meta Quest 3, but did not get a chance to test with any other headsets/controllers yet. It will probably work wonkily with Vive Wands and Valve Index controllers.

Controls: See the cardboard sign in-game for both the hand tracking version and the Meta Quest Touch Controller version of the controls.

Game Jam: This game is made for the Sizzling Shrimp VR Summer Jam 2025. The theme for the jam was: Unhappy Camper. I prototyped the raccoon character in OpenBrush in VR and then made the clean model/rig/animations in Blender, and brought it to life in Unity to play with the newest Meta XR SDK.

During the middle of the jam, I became sick with COVID-19 and became a real unhappy camper, and didn't have time to finish the game, so it is just a sandbox. The storm never ends, but it never gets beyond a drizzle either. There's no test built to see how good your shelter is. Building is somewhat difficult due to the physics I didn't have enough time to work on, the small size of the raccoon, and that it just has paws that aren't very dexterous. Now we know why raccoons make a mess. But build to your heart's content, and enjoy the hand puppet mechanics.

I did my own voice acting on day 7 of my COVID-19 to capture the full sadness and tiredness.

3rd Party Attributions: Music: Warm Fuzz by HoliznaCC0. Sounds: Universal Sound FX Pack by imphenzia (licensed). Heavily stylized garbage props based on models from Toon Shooter Game Kit by Quaternius (CC0). Final IK script library by RootMotion. DOTween scripts by Demigiant. DynamicBone script library by Will Hong.

Special Thanks to my wife Wanni for the last minute help with the capturing the thumbnail picture.