Children's treasure hunt with
printed ar markers
Children's treasure hunt with printed ar markers
Tapping on the planet opens quiz to provide clues to the next location
Tapping on the planet opens quiz to provide clues to the next location
Play it here - the adventure starts at the corner of Main/East Street
* AR markers work best printed. Scanning from them from a screen may make 3D models move jittery due to Moiré-Effect
- Augmented Reality
- A-Frame
- QR Scanning
- Game Logic
This was an actual treasure hunt for my kid's birthday party, built with a-frame and vanilla js in about a week's spare time.
For the treasure hunt, I placed qr codes around the neighbourhood, handed out a couple of smartphones with the web app open and set the kids loose. The web app worked astonishingly well for the short development timeframe, but I realized I had much to learn about which kind of clues children will pick up on (for example, 9 year olds will not read street signs, even if they're standing directly in front of them).
To carry over the game feeling into the portfolio version, I replaced the the real life neighbourhood with an animated "space map".
* Planet textures are from the NASA images and texture archive