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A jam submission

My Dearest Devourer AR (For Android Devices)View game page

Virtual Pet Shark Simulator in Augmented Reality for Android
Submitted by andyman404 (@andyman404) — 7 days, 3 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay Innovation#512.6523.750
Visuals#852.3863.375
Overall#902.2983.250
Fun#912.0332.875
Movie Interpretation#992.3863.375
Audio#1001.4142.000

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

IMDb link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Movie scene description (plus video link if possible!)
Swimmers are out swimming during the 4th of July. Jaws, the great white shark lurks nearby... https://youtu.be/G5KSCWDlyQw?t=1m4s

Does your game or video link contain movie spoilers?

No (completely spoiler-free)

Please list any pre-made art/music/other assets that you used.
I made all the 3D assets. I used some 3rd-party music, sounds, and button icons.

Music: Depassionated Tango Loop by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0.
Water Splash sound by wormer2 (CC0)
Ocean Crete sound by johnderekbishop (CC0)
Shark (icon) by emilegraphics from the Noun Project
Swimming (icon) by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project
Photo (icon) by Icons Bazaar from the Noun Project

How many members in your team?

1

Anything you want to say to players before they play?
Jaws (1975) is one of the scariest movies of all time. It is about a man-eating giant great white shark that terrorizes the waters around small town that depends on its beach for tourist season commerce. This game seeks to help cure you of the fear of sharks by giving you your very own pet shark.

This AR (augmented reality) virtual pet shark simulator allows you to bring a pet shark into your reality. Watch it swim, leap, and play hide-and-seek with you. Drop some swimmers in the water and see what it does!

You don't control the shark - it controls you. It will make you do the tango as you walk around trying to capture it in your mobile device's view port. Seriously, hand it off to someone and watch them - they'll unintentionally dance the tango if they try to follow the shark.

IMPORTANT: Install Google's ARCore Preview 2 first before installing the game:

http://github.com/google-ar/arcore-android-sdk/releases/download/sdk-preview2/arcore-preview2.apk

For the following Android devices only: Pixel and Pixel 2, Samsung Galaxy S7, Samsung Galaxy S8, Samsung Galaxy Note8.

If you don't own one of these devices then watch the Youtube video of the AR game in action, recorded from my phone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTa3HwsNps4

Here's what the different buttons do:

Shark button: sets the water level to a little bit below your device, and puts the shark right in front of you. Press this if the phone loses AR tracking and the water disappears.

Swimmer button: drops a swimmer into the water.

Photo button: pauses the game and hides the user interface. Now you can walk around and capture screenshots with your phone's screenshot controls (varies by phone). Tap the screen to resume.

There is no "winning" or "losing". By playing the game, you have already succeeded.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Made my Honorable Mention!

Submitted(+1)

Couldn't play but I did watch the video. Super cool!!

Submitted(+1)

The shark is so cute!

Submitted(+1)

This just was beauty when I first saw the video. Great job man! 

Submitted(+1)

How exciting to see such a focus on sharks in another game! Unfortunately I'm not able to play this as I do not have one of the required phones, but the video looks pretty neat! Keep up the good work fellow shark-based game developer!