Nomination for Auggie Award: Best Mobile AR App
Creator: Corey King
Organization: ZenFri Inc.
Description:
Clandestine: Anomaly is the next evolution in mobile gaming: the world’s first fully featured Emergent Reality Game (ERG). Think of it as reality’s expansion pack. We’ve mixed smart design with GPS and AR technologies to create a totally immersive, narrative-driven gaming experience.
In your hand, you hold technology that reveals an unimaginable new layer of reality. A secretive organization – EDC – needs your skills and feet on the ground to detect and neutralize anomalies in the space-time continuum. These “anomalies” threaten the very fabric of reality and are breaking out all over the world – your world.
The action is taking place in your city – even, literally, in your backyard. In Clandestine: Anomaly, you’re not a character in a fictional world: you are you, and your mobile device is a window into another layer of reality that is encroaching on our own. The world of Clandestine: Anomaly is all around you.
Using GPS and Augmented Reality technologies your neighborhood is populated with 3D interactive characters and scenarios. Each player will experience the game as unique, one-of-a-kind story. Game design triggers help the game learn not only where your closest park is, but what locations matter to you most. No two players will every experience the same game twice.
Throughout the game, you’ll collect alien nanotechnology, and parts programs through both missions and geocaching. Merging the two, you’ll assemble, and customize probes, utility drones and three story tall weapons for defense and attack.Through tower defense gameplay, you will literally defend your own community from attack. You’ll program and deploy arrays varying from alien creatures to futuristic war machines. After you strategically deploy your units, you will watch the epic battles play out in real time in the sky above you. In recon mode, you can command your arrays to focus their attacks on an enemy, call in an air strike, or recharge and repair them.
Strategy is the key to victory. How you manage your resources and deploy your units will effect your success.
Where to find it:
Through the developers via Testflight
Platforms:
Mobile
This technology could lead to some great things. The door will soon be open.
I can’t wait to see this blossom into something much much more.