In my third year of University, a friend and I took a 'placement year' before moving on to our final year of the course. However, rather than being employed by a company, we took advantage of the university's business start-up scheme to instead set up our own company and work for ourselves on a project we had total control over.

This project took form as a VR puzzle game taking place in an old abandoned circus. The player takes the role of a father who has lost his young daughter at the circus and has returned several years later to continue to search for her. The game was simply a set of contextual puzzles the player had to solve to advance the story and access more areas. 

We had just under a year to produce a playable version of the game which we then showcased at the university's annual student computing exhibition.