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The Golden Toad

The Golden Toad is a poetic journey in virtual reality (Meta Quest). While exploring surreal environments – desert, underwater cavern, mountain cave, garden and island – users collect bone tablets of critically endangered animals. The mission: to find the last three eggs of the extinct Golden Toad and hatch them. Watch The Golden Toad trailer.

Finalist for Best Immersive Interactive VR and Official Selection, Qld XR Festival, 2025.

 

Official Selection, Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, FIVARS 2025

 

FIVARS Spotlight: The Golden Toad: https://fivars.net/spotlight/fivars-2025-spotlight-on-the-golden-toad/

A giant bone alter in the desert (Scene One: Zou).

Users can unlock a grabbable wand. This magic tool enables them to interact with various objects, such as pufferfish that turn into giant balloons.

Bone Altar
Golden Toad Opening
Golden Toad Inventory
Opening of The Golden Toad.

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Special objects can be stored in inventory.

Fungi Tree
Wand animated
Climb down a fungi tree.

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Go wild with the wand.

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Niwa Shell Web

Venture into an animated garden where weird plants spew and spray seeds.

Mizu Scene

Descend into underwater cavern and clear plastic debris.

BochiSceneRev

Spin the urns in the swamp.