Virtual Travel

This is a game designed to make you feel as though you are traveling even during the COVID-19 pandemic. The airport in the game is based on Narita International Airport in Chiba, where I live, and the scenery outside the airplane window is inspired by Chiba City and the Makuhari subcenter. Most of the experience is observation-based, but there are also choices and mini-games along the way.

There is a scene where you take a photo, so prepare a webcam if possible. If you do not have one, the Scratch Cat image is used instead. Because capturing color images takes longer, I recommend using monochrome mode. The photo quality is intentionally low to reduce the project size. The project does not include a program for saving the captured image.

In the baggage-inspection scene, you can skip it by holding the up arrow during the preceding Narita Airport takeoff scene.

I paid close attention to small details in the game’s visuals to make the experience feel like traveling. I also put a lot of thought into the BGM.

For the airport announcement music, I added reverb so that it would sound as though it were echoing through a large space. For the final camera scene, I drew the Sony α6400 camera I had wanted for a long time. I later bought the camera in real life, recorded its actual shutter sound, and replaced the original sound with it.

The game that appears on the airplane can also be played here.