Halloween Haunters

Introduction

Halloween Haunters is a Location based AR game in which users hunt characters in real-world locations using smartphones. In the game, Witches, Skeletons, Ghosts, Vampires and Zombies – all these horror supernatural beings are haunting around Georgia Tech campus, and your job is to find and capture them.

This game was launched just before 2016 Halloween to provide a unique Halloween experience for students in Georgia Tech.

Check the short video below:

Game Characters

I chose blocky pixel art for my 3D characters, for I want players to feel visually in a digital world when playing this game instead of being disappointed by fake reality characters. As Jason Rohrer's idea that pixel art is a kind of digitally native cartooning, my AR game tries to intervene into reality through digital characters and create a more appealing digital gaming experience in real life.

Here are characters and items in my game:

Game Map

The game map is converted from real world Georgia Tech map. I distributed characters around the map and visualized their locations by shining yellow dots. The color of the dot will turn green after the corresponding character is captured. And new characters unlocked will be displayed by position icons.

User Interface

Technology

HTML/CSS    JavaScript    A-Frame    Argon    Local Storage    Magical Voxel

Installation Instruction

Please note that this game is only work for mobile devices. Do not open the link in web browser directly.

- Download Argon application from Apple Store. (Argon 4 required)

- Tap the link   https://lyricliu.github.io/Halloween/   in Argon.

- Allow your position to be shared.