Helen L
@thehellers.bsky.social
VR/AR design | Narrative design & game writing | Virtual worlds | Interactive experiences | Engines of meaning. My work: www.lastdaysofparadise.com
#Vket Formula .3879 (2/2 posts). Also some weapons and avatars. The cyber industrial vibe of this Vket world was cool. Nice contrast to the organic feel of the others. #VR #digitalart
July 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#Vket Formula .3879 (2/2 posts). Also some weapons and avatars. The cyber industrial vibe of this Vket world was cool. Nice contrast to the organic feel of the others. #VR #digitalart
#Vket Formula .3879 (1/2 posts). This market world seemed mostly devoted modes of transport, mostly cars and car related assets. Most of us have driven some sort of car in #VRChat, some of us follow racing worlds or racing maps with different degrees of realism. #VR #digitalart
July 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#Vket Formula .3879 (1/2 posts). This market world seemed mostly devoted modes of transport, mostly cars and car related assets. Most of us have driven some sort of car in #VRChat, some of us follow racing worlds or racing maps with different degrees of realism. #VR #digitalart
#Vket Hypothetical Garden Exoplant (1/2 posts). This market world is an ornate dream garden of the imagination. Like in the other worlds, some interesting #VRChat -specific assets: developers that build VR communities w/ XP systems and Discord bots. Also, housing and other environment assets 🤩 #VR
July 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
#Vket AlterVista Midnight worlds (2/2 posts). ... and VR live shows from #FailedtoRender + VR films from Studio Penrose Films. Also in a booth was #SlimeVR Tracker for full body tracking. These products/events are examples of experiences that #VR brings that can only be had in the medium. #VRChat
July 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
#Vket AlterVista Midnight worlds (2/2 posts). ... and VR live shows from #FailedtoRender + VR films from Studio Penrose Films. Also in a booth was #SlimeVR Tracker for full body tracking. These products/events are examples of experiences that #VR brings that can only be had in the medium. #VRChat
#Vket AlterVista Midnight worlds (1/2 posts). This world is a giant futuristic mall where you can find lots of unique avatars and assets. Most interesting to me were the things unique to VR - #metamory is an app for storing and viewing #VRChat photos... #VR #digitalart
July 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
#Vket AlterVista Midnight worlds (1/2 posts). This world is a giant futuristic mall where you can find lots of unique avatars and assets. Most interesting to me were the things unique to VR - #metamory is an app for storing and viewing #VRChat photos... #VR #digitalart
Love the playfulness of the Tea Party Rebake worlds at #Vket. Baked goods. An Earl Grey river. Avatars and shaders for sale. Also, links to streamers and ambassadors - good way to experience all the features the market worlds if you can make it into VRChat yourself. #VR #VRChat
July 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Digital assets and avatars for sale in the #Vket world Morihoji Street Yapopueto. The world itself is beautiful... you wander through the autumn mist to come upon a village in the deep woods. The designer #Dangotaso did a great job. #VR #VRChat #digitalart #avatar
July 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Digital assets and avatars for sale in the #Vket world Morihoji Street Yapopueto. The world itself is beautiful... you wander through the autumn mist to come upon a village in the deep woods. The designer #Dangotaso did a great job. #VR #VRChat #digitalart #avatar
Parareal #Hawaii in #Vket 2025. What I noticed about this world is the IRL connections and exclusive merch. Links offsite to Amazon where you u can get Vket collab merch, and to IRL Japanese cities. Compare this to the Vket of old that was focused on digital assets from indie creators. #VR #VRChat
July 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Parareal #Tokyo 🤩 Vket's parareal worlds are strange + wonderful. Maybe they're worlds that could've been or will be. Virtual versions of real places overlaid with #Vket booths and IRL businesses. Interact with some assets and you can find a real place to visit. #VR #VRChat #3D
July 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Vket avatars on full display in one of the Pixelica worlds😍 #VRChat #virtualreality #digitalart #avatars
July 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Vket avatars on full display in one of the Pixelica worlds😍 #VRChat #virtualreality #digitalart #avatars
Well, well, well... it's that time of the year again! VKet Summer 2025 started on VRChat this weekend and will run for 2 weeks. Parareal worlds + digital artists + real world vendors... every year the market grows in leap and bounds. Excited to see what's new. #VRChat #virtualreality #Vket #digital
July 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Well, well, well... it's that time of the year again! VKet Summer 2025 started on VRChat this weekend and will run for 2 weeks. Parareal worlds + digital artists + real world vendors... every year the market grows in leap and bounds. Excited to see what's new. #VRChat #virtualreality #Vket #digital
Just rewatched #TheFall by #Tarsem. It's a singular experience. An epic fable that plays out in the most scenic places you can imagine. Filmed in ~20 countries. Widely known for its sheer beauty, the film tells an archetypal myth of life, death, and rebirth. #storytelling #worldbuilding #myth
April 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Just rewatched #TheFall by #Tarsem. It's a singular experience. An epic fable that plays out in the most scenic places you can imagine. Filmed in ~20 countries. Widely known for its sheer beauty, the film tells an archetypal myth of life, death, and rebirth. #storytelling #worldbuilding #myth
#Oblige (2017). There's a fine line between a cozy game and one that portrays life's mundanity. Oblige has a story that focuses on the understated dramas that make up daily life. It's somehow mundane and dramatic at once. A quiet magic. #indiedev #gamedev #storytelling
April 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
#Oblige (2017). There's a fine line between a cozy game and one that portrays life's mundanity. Oblige has a story that focuses on the understated dramas that make up daily life. It's somehow mundane and dramatic at once. A quiet magic. #indiedev #gamedev #storytelling
The #Dreams (1990) of #Kurosawa. Recurring dreams are powerful. They're connected to the deepest dramas playing out in our psyches and to the collective unconscious. They're both familiar and foreign. A portal key to the soul. #surreal #storytelling #film #worldbuilding
April 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The #Dreams (1990) of #Kurosawa. Recurring dreams are powerful. They're connected to the deepest dramas playing out in our psyches and to the collective unconscious. They're both familiar and foreign. A portal key to the soul. #surreal #storytelling #film #worldbuilding
Our caveman brain gets it. #Primal has no dialogue for its first season and minimal dialogue after that. Sound + color + image create a universal emotional landscape. Our one original instinct propels the story: the desire to survive. #animation #storytelling #worldbuilding
April 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Our caveman brain gets it. #Primal has no dialogue for its first season and minimal dialogue after that. Sound + color + image create a universal emotional landscape. Our one original instinct propels the story: the desire to survive. #animation #storytelling #worldbuilding
Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Helen, a narrative designer for games. I also make XR experiences. Interactive mediums help us understand ourselves. My work has appeared with UKAI Projects, the Ottawa Design Club, the Digital Arts Resource Centre, and the Codame Art+Tech Festival.
www.lastdaysofparadise.com
www.lastdaysofparadise.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Helen, a narrative designer for games. I also make XR experiences. Interactive mediums help us understand ourselves. My work has appeared with UKAI Projects, the Ottawa Design Club, the Digital Arts Resource Centre, and the Codame Art+Tech Festival.
www.lastdaysofparadise.com
www.lastdaysofparadise.com
A surreal, large-scale arthouse film with a single-hour long shot near the climax. Long Day's Journey into Night (2018) is a film that operates according to its own inner, secret logic. It has the power to mesmerize and reveal, but not explain. #surreal #film #storytelling
April 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
A surreal, large-scale arthouse film with a single-hour long shot near the climax. Long Day's Journey into Night (2018) is a film that operates according to its own inner, secret logic. It has the power to mesmerize and reveal, but not explain. #surreal #film #storytelling
I love the environmental storytelling in #Psychonauts2. Our experiences of reality can be so subjective. It's a challenge in any medium to convey this to an audience. The level design really lets you feel what it's like to be in someone else's mind. #worldbuilding #gamedev #gamewriting
April 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I love the environmental storytelling in #Psychonauts2. Our experiences of reality can be so subjective. It's a challenge in any medium to convey this to an audience. The level design really lets you feel what it's like to be in someone else's mind. #worldbuilding #gamedev #gamewriting
#UnicornWars is like Care Bears + The Last Unicorn + Cain and Abel + Apocalypse Now + the Book of Revelation. Can't be described, must be experienced. #animation #storytelling
April 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#UnicornWars is like Care Bears + The Last Unicorn + Cain and Abel + Apocalypse Now + the Book of Revelation. Can't be described, must be experienced. #animation #storytelling
Did anyone think creating a device that lets you enter someone else's dreams would turn out well? Then again it takes a visionary to tell us just how and why it goes spectacularly wrong. #SatoshiKon #Paprika #animation #worldbuilding
April 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Did anyone think creating a device that lets you enter someone else's dreams would turn out well? Then again it takes a visionary to tell us just how and why it goes spectacularly wrong. #SatoshiKon #Paprika #animation #worldbuilding
NPCs that surprised me - Charlotte Balfour #RedDeadRedemption2. In an isolated corner of the map, an entire life plays out. You feel compelled to return and know her fate. Depending on the choices you make, every iteration of her destiny feels inevitable. #gamewriting #videogames
April 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
NPCs that surprised me - Charlotte Balfour #RedDeadRedemption2. In an isolated corner of the map, an entire life plays out. You feel compelled to return and know her fate. Depending on the choices you make, every iteration of her destiny feels inevitable. #gamewriting #videogames
Interesting things happen when you mix genres. Take the Donnie Yen film #WuXia. A martial arts film and a detective noir. In a film like this, fight scenes are a type of dialogue and key to the mystery's unravelling.
April 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Interesting things happen when you mix genres. Take the Donnie Yen film #WuXia. A martial arts film and a detective noir. In a film like this, fight scenes are a type of dialogue and key to the mystery's unravelling.