After reading the post on Playstation Blog linked here I picked up TTT tonight. It's mostly as you would expect, another serviceable AR game that feels a little rough around the edges.
The comment from the the developer about the A4 AR cards had me intrigued though, so I thought I'd try it out.
I found the AR templates as jpegs using google and printed them all at A4 size (on normal printer paper). Laid them out on my living room floor and started a game, it works a treat. The tanks look nice and big in the room and very useful if you want to play AR in low light and away from a desk/table.
I tried the A4 cards with Cliff Diving and Fireworks too and again, they work just fine and really make AR seem a lot more viable to me. I'm quite looking forward to playing a small room sized game of PulzAR now.
Also, the shape creator in the custom map editor is a great touch. Once the Vita's established where the cards are you can place a real world object in the arena, then create a shape to roughly fit (cylinder/cube/cuboid) and overlay it. It can be just an obstacle or you can 'fill' the shape with water, fire or smoke-these will then pour out of the shape when hit with rockets etc. You can then set the shape to be invisible too so you only see your real world object (in my case, a Boba Fett bobble head coin bank ) on the map. It's simple and quick to do.
Nice example of AR.
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Yeah, I got to play Reality Fighters with an enormous AR card at a Sony event last year, and it made the characters like six foot tall. It's super awesome!
I actually did this with the 3DS on their AR games that came with the system. I made a customized AR card to be about the size of a Smart Car and played on top of my roof. Didn't work to well though since I had to move around a lot. But still giant versions of AR cards are always awesome!!!!
Don't think we can post pics here can we? Peraps once PulzAR. Comes out PushSquare could do an AR feature? Using large cards should be something of interest.
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