Team Name
Earthlings

Did you use Lightship VPS (built on Unity) or VPS for WebAR (8th Wall)?
Lightship VPS Unity

Link to demo video (YouTube or Vimeo - Required for all submissions)
https://youtube.com/shorts/d-ZLthmi3zw?feature=share

Briefly describe your project
It's an AR Match 3 game attached to the stair seating

How did you come up with your project idea?
I thought the stairs lent themselves to an interesting kinesthetic experience of walking up and down through the 3D AR space to make your matches. I also was inspired by all of the posters of productions associated with Emerson, so I wanted to make the cubes with the posters, but I didn't get to that

How did you innovate on this product? (Optional)
Using the raycasting on the cubes in AR space was interesting to make work. Also the calculations of matches in 3D space was a lot of fun, but still a work in progress

How does it speak to Niantic's mission? (Optional)
I feel that it gets people outside and moving. I'd like to upgrade this with a 2 player option as well to add to the sociability. Additionally, I would like to have a location based high scoreboard to keep people coming back

How complete is your project? (Optional)
It's definitely a work in progress. My team's original idea implored so I started from scratch around 9PM. At least with DST I got an extra hour to work. The match logic and animations are the major components to an MVP.