Project Aincrad

Project Aincrad is an on-going fan project recreation of the game from the show Sword Art Online in VRChat. The world currently features PvP ,PvE, economy, saving system and more. It is made by the team ArgusVRC consisting of contributors from around the world.
Because the game is build for VRChat it uses the Unity Editor with Udon scripting and networking. We specifically use UdonSharp which transpiles C# to Udon. You can check out the world here.

What I did

I joined the project as a programmer in November of 2022. My main focus on the project has been NPCs, doing everything from making a state machine editor with editor scripting to doing the npc networking. I also worked on the progression system, which lets you spec into two skill trees that improve your stats and give you new abilities. All of which can be easily changed and balanced by designers trough a custom editor. Furthermore, I developed a trading system enabling players to exchange items or currency from their inventories with other players.

What I learned

Working on this project has been a great learning experience. I have learned a lot about networking and editor scripting. And also a lot about optimization techniques required to get a big and complex world running on Mobile VR hardware like the Quest.