For the European university alliance ACE²-EU, we are looking for students who would like to help further develop our existing Virtual Escape Room.
The Escape Room has been created in Unity and allows users to explore our partner universities in a playful and interactive way. We already have three completed university rooms:
- MUG – Medical University of Gdańsk
- THI – Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
- CUAS – Carinthia University of Applied Sciences
Our aim is to gradually expand the Escape Room by adding around two new university rooms each year, depending on student interest and availability.
For this year, we would especially like to start developing rooms for our partner universities in Madrid, Spain, and Romania.
What would you work on?
You would design and develop a virtual room for one of the partner universities. This includes:
- researching the university, its region and cultural characteristics
- developing a suitable room concept and short storyline
- creating interactive elements and Escape Room puzzles
- designing and building the 3D environment in Unity
- implementing interactions such as clickable objects, codes, doors and hidden clues
- integrating the new room into the existing ACE²-EU Virtual Escape Room
- testing and improving the overall user experience
You would not be starting from scratch: the existing Escape Room and the rooms for MUG, THI and CUAS can be used as a technical and creative basis.
What skills would be useful?
Ideally, you already have some experience with Unity, particularly with:
- creating and editing 3D scenes
- GameObjects, Prefabs and Colliders
- simple animations and interactions
- Unity UI
- basic C# programming
- importing and working with 3D models, textures and other assets
Experience with WebGL would be an advantage, as the Escape Room is hosted online and played directly in a web browser.
We are also looking for students who are interested in UX/UI design, game design, storytelling and 3D environments, and who enjoy developing creative ideas for an international university project.
Why take part?
This is an opportunity to contribute to a real international project within the ACE²-EU Alliance. Your work would not remain a university exercise: the finished room could become part of the official Virtual Escape Room and be used by students and staff across the alliance.
The project combines UX design, 3D design, storytelling, game design and technical implementation in Unity, while also giving you the opportunity to work with an international and intercultural context.
Contact: Franziska.hegner@thi.de