This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Clandestine: Anomaly is about you, your phone, and your neighbourhood. This locality provides an intimacy that is lost in the Watch Dogs example, as well as in location based games like Ingress. Our game is designed to be played in your own neighbourhood. The whole idea that your phone is just a phone impacts even the tower tactics side of the game, as you need to build signal towers, which we call Pulsars, in order to help reveal the enemy’s location and see them. Like any normal mobile device it receives text and video messages from characters, as well as directs other in-game assets. You can command and control units, as well as call in airstrikes, but your phone itself doesn’t shoot, it’s a communication device. In Clandestine: Anomaly, your phone is still just a phone, only it’s been supercharged with alien technology. We also don’t use the phone like a gun, which is the bane of so many AR games. We built this around the idea that your primitive human phone needs a “boost” to see the covert events around you, and that boost has to be within signal range of your units and can only last a short time. We aimed to make it so that you’re in AR for bursts no longer than the time it would take to snap a few photos, this is so that you are never obligated to hold your phone up in the air too long, and so that the whole experience is less socially awkward. Should you choose to use AR it’s a special power-up with a limited duration. AR allows powerful location-based abilities when you walk to the real-world location of a battle, but you can always stick to commanding units remotely from the comfort of home. We actually put a lot of effort into building the mechanics around not looking foolish in public, and playing safe.įor starters, the entire game can be played without AR. No one wants to be embarrassed as they play. A lot of AR games try to do this, and it’s a massive barrier to enjoying the game. Looking at the Watch Dogs mini-game, and how your character runs around in public, they look foolish even within the context of the game world.
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