casual – Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio

Dodger Dodger

Blair MacIntyre — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:41:12 +0000

Dodger Dodger is a experimental augmented reality game, exploring how the direct physical control offered by AR interfaces can facilitate a game mechanic for moving between multiple parallel levels in a scrolling shooter game. The player must move left and right with their ship, using traditional controls, while also moving in and out between parallel levels, to avoid collision with the rocks.

The game was developed by Michael Stanley (SCAD), Chris Miller (SCAD), Rohan Karnik (Georgia Tech) and Xo Wang (Georgia Tech).

Guide the Narwhal

Blair MacIntyre — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:36:14 +0000

Guide the Narwhal is a game whose goal is to use a playful theme to teach some basic facts about condom use and safe sex. The player must help the narwhals put jellyfish covers on their horns, before going into the undersea temple to play. While in the temple, the narwhal collects coins and treasures, until the jellyfish is filled and begins to fall off. The player needs to guide the narwhal out of the temple before this happens; if the jellyfish falls off while in the temple, the game is over. The player can put another jellyfish on the narwhal horn, and return to the temple to collect treasures.

The game was developed by Daniel Cazan, an MS CS student at Georgia Tech.

Nerdherder

Blair MacIntyre — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:34:09 +0000

Nerd herder is a single-player puzzle game which follows the day to day awkward interactions of a nerd in his hazardous office environment. The player is tasked with guiding the nerd back to his work station while avoiding obstacles that would repulse, attract or bring harm to the nerd. Through use of an android phone, players must analyze the environment, plan out a path for the nerd and then guide the nerd by zooming in or out with their phone to intimidate the nerd, forcing him in the desired direction.

The game was developed by Richard Shemaka (Georgia Tech), Paul Tillery (SCAD), Dan Spaventa (Georgia Tech) and Harrison Leach (Georgia Tech).

Secret Garden

Blair MacIntyre — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:29:37 +0000

Secret Garden is a handheld augmented reality game where players must guide a girl through a hedge maze while avoiding traps and enemies. Players control the game by placing special markers onto the maze that create plants to change the girl’s movement. For example, a bamboo marker will block off a path and change the girl’s direction. In addition to completing the maze, players may also gather the three loaves of bread scattered throughout each maze to increase their ranking for that level.

The game was developed by Rose Peng, Robert Spessard and Ali Wallick (Georgia Tech).

Puppy Plus

Blair MacIntyre — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:11:49 +0000

Puppy Plus is an augmented reality game designed to teach 5-7 year old children simple math concepts like addition and subtraction.

The game was created by Iulian Radu (Georgia Tech) and Erin Hanlon (SCAD), along with Yan Xu (Georgia Tech), Bianca Gee (SCAD), and Wendell Whittaker Jr. (SCAD).

Volcano Fever, Spring 2011

Blair MacIntyre — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:03:57 +0000

Volcano Fever is a handheld augmented reality game designed to teach proper condom use in a playful way. The game was inspired by a desire to leverage vision-based AR to create an fun game that uses the condom package itself as the physical prop to which the game is attached.

Over the course of the Spring semester, the game was updated to have a sequence of three minigames (cap the volcano, unroll the condom to cover it fully, and dispose of the used condom) that mirror the three steps of proper condom use.

The team that worked on the game over the year includes:

Anna Mansour, MS HCI
Michael Downing, Computational Media
Bryan Hickerson, MS CS
Leigh Ann Kinnison, SCAD
Mae Tidman, Computational Media
Jia Zhang, MS CS
Tarick Khalaf, Computational Media
Jason Lee, MS Digital Media

Here’s a video of the project:

Shotgun Showdown

Blair MacIntyre — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:25:25 +0000

Shotgun Showdown is a competitive, two player handheld augmented reality game. The game is played on top of a pair of US paper bills, putting the game space on top of the square formed by the money. The game is inspired by the idea of a western-themed shooting gallery, and the content is modeled as 2D cardboard cutouts.

The game was created by:

Chris Ehsaei — MS Electrical Engineering
Andrew Colella — MS Music Technology

Here is a video of the game.

Black Hole

travisharkleroad — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:09:45 +0000

Black Hole is a game that explores the concept of complex movement through 3D space, and how the use of augmented reality can afford players the ability to understand arbitrary positions in space through precise control of the camera.

A video of the game can be seen here:

Travis Harkleroad – BS Computational Media | MFA Visual Effects (SCAD)