durAR

The whole set of cards designed for this game
The main menu screen

Team klövr

Slack - team-klövr

Inspiration

Augmented Reality as a modern-day, user-friendly medium and our favourite card game duraks.

What is durAR

durAR is an AR game that takes your best friends closer to you in this time of physical distancing. In this game you can play the card game duraks with your friends in immersive and engaging AR. You can even try to peek into your friends' cards if you feel like you want to cheat.

Setup

Download the apk file from here Download the target from here and either 1) Print it out, place it on a surface 2) Show it on a screen that's lying horizontally on a surface (ipad, laptop etc.)

How we built it

We started by creating a server-side gameplay core in node.js (server-side) and at the same time making the app in Unity as well as all the designs, using Vuforia as our AR engine. Later we set up the socket.io connections in Unity to the server and then connected everything together. The designs were made in Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer, the video was edited with Adobe Premiere Pro and the audio was processed in Ableton Live 10.

Challenges we ran into

Setting up AR for the first time in our life - a challenging but fun experience Connecting Unity with websockets in order to make a connection with the server

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Within this short time limit have set up a node.js server that connects to unity in order to bring multiplayer into the game; produced and filmed an entire video with a processed voice-over, and created our own original deck of cards

What we learned

EchoAR (which we ended up not using) is too easy use. (only 50 API calls which got used up too quickly)

What's next for AR Cards

Our team in the future will add more card games for all of us to enjoy. We aim to create a dynamic lobby size, so you can enjoy it with more friends! Updates for improved AR experience (being able to play the game without the target image)/the target image allowed to be on a 90deg angle for easier use. Bug fixes and updates are most likely coming

Built With

Submitted to

Raccoons Virtual Hackathon
- Winner Overall Best Hack

Created by

I tackled the AR platform itself, created all the card interactions and app functions.

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I worked on the most front-end there exists - the design of all the cards, menus, animations, as well as audio recording, processing and producing, filming and editing the video :)

saecl
Hey! I have always admired people who work in multiple different fields - music, programming, design, science, etc. So why not do the same?
I worked on Unity front-end and did the texture assigning process for all the cards. I also made the socket.io inputs on the client-side to connect to the server. :D

Oskars Putāns
I worked on the server back-end, implementing the game logic and tying it in with the socket.io requests the server receives.

Rihards Kauliņš
Reinis Salaks