Writhe & Dine (VR)

Guide your swarm of gentle larva to eat mushrooms and gain enough mass to trigger the magical altar. Physics-based VR game for Meta Quest 3 and Windows OpenXR

There is only the tutorial level currently. After you beat it, you can continue as a sandbox and grow your swarm to huge sizes. Can you reach a swarm mass of 2000?

Made for VR Jam 6. Theme: mushrooms, bugs, magical/fantasy. For this jam, I wanted to practice Unity's Data Oriented Tech Stack (DOTS). I used DOTS to make this be able to perform well with hundreds of larva, each with many body segments, performing in a physics-based world with ragdoll mushrooms.

For those with more powerful machines, there is the Ultra Sandbox Edition build for Windows OpenXR also, which starts you out with 400 larva, each with 10 segments, so you can really get the feel for this massive swarm of writhing larva.

This game is a sequel to My Best Friends Are Giant Mushrooms, a game I made for a Magical Girl Game Jam #5 in 2022, which also unintentionally implemented the same themes as this jam. A big challenge and difference for this jam was to do everything using DOTS/ECS instead of the normal much easier way.

3rd party asset attributions: "Beginning 1" music by HoliznaCC0 (CC0); Universal Sound FX Pack by imphenzia (paid license); Spicy Kebab font by Khurasan; Selfish font by Misprinted Type (public domain); placeholder voice generated by ElevenLabs

Tools: Unity, Blender, Substance Painter, Audacity