S&P FutureChoice Installation

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• Reddit Post - Original post with Q&A

In early 2025 I worked on my first commercial Godot project, an interactive installation for CERAWeek in Houston, Texas.

It was a game where participants stepped up to podiums, answered questions and then saw how their choices shaped the future of a virtual country.

Players could then print out a receipt showing how they contributed. The printing part was also powered by Godot (and my teammate Chris. He wrangled all the binary stuff).

I worked on both the 3D and 2D parts of the app. This included:

• World generation
• Dynamic camera movement system
• Lighting and designed particle effects
• Asset pipeline
• Player and strategy selection UI
• Implemented many of the UI components

Some little interesting bits:

• The team originally planned to use Unreal, but when that didn’t work out I suggested switching to Godot. So that's a win for Godot!

• I built another small Godot app on the side to automatically pull down the latest build from GitHub and relaunch it on a TV in the office. This caught a bunch of issues early, we even had it running in our Airbnb.

• We built an import plugin that added animations, particles and interactions automatically to the 3D models. This made last minute changes as simple as re-importing files.

In the end, it went very smoothly with it running nonstop for 4 days straight!