Christmas AR Mobile Game

Catching christmas presents within an augmented snow globe

Overview

During my internship at Total Reality I created the XMAS AR Game. This game was used as a promotional tool to increase engangement with the company. The person with the highest score after christmas would be giftet a VR headset.

For this game, I came up with the concept, worked on game design and coded the game mechanics in Unity. The game was released for a limited amount of time on the App store and Play store.

The game consisted of a snow globe that could be placed in your surrounding using the camera of your mobile phone. This snow globe served as the play area for the game. After selecting your game character (Total Reality employees as christmas elves) the game starts.

The game loop is about christmas presents that spawn above the play area and fall to the ground. The goal is to catch as many presents as possible. Each present gave points, which gave incentive to catch as many presents as possible. Bombs should be avoided as they explode and damage the player.

The game worked in waves, so after an amount of time the next wave started, with more presents falling but also more bombs, making the game slowly more intense and difficult over time.

Key Responsibilities

  • Game design of the concept and game loop
  • Development from concept to final product
  • Markerless AR Placement
  • Various game features such as player controller, health system, catching presents, exploding bombs, growing shadows (hints where presents will fall)
  • Development of the wave system with increasing presents and bombs, falling at faster rates
  • Implemented and iterated the UI of the game
  • Editing and implementation of music & sound effects
  • Collaboration with lead developer to implement high score system
  • Collaboration with 3D artist to implement in-house created assets
  • assistance with 3D scanning of employees heads at the Fab Lab of Saxion University

Impact

  • The game was successfully released on the App store and Play store
  • A lucky winner with the highest score after christmas was selected and gifted an Oculus Go

Technologies

  • Samsung Galaxy
  • Apple iPhone
  • Unity
  • Vuforia
  • SVN

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