First Resort is a VR mental wellness app I worked on at RealizedCare (formerly BehaVR). One of the app's main functions is to teach users how to practice cognitive reframing—a key tool of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which involves challenging and restructuring distorted thoughts. I was the primary designer assigned to this part of the product, responsible for concept development, storyboarding, prototyping, whiteboxing, interaction design, level design, gameplay design, and sound design. I wrote the dialogue for the tutorials. I was also one of the main artists who worked on this, responsible for modeling, texturing, animation, VFX (shaders and particles), lighting, and graphics optimization.
First Resort is available for free in an Early Access period on App Lab, and was selected as a finalist in the "Best Health Game" category by Games For Change 2023. The target platform for First Resort was Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2. All art assets featured are low-poly and optimized to run on a VR headset.
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