ARkanoid: Development of 3D Game and Handheld Augmented Reality
Markus Santoso, Lee Byung Gook · 2012
In this paper, researcher presents ARkanoid, a 3D Handheld Augmented Reality game. Through this project, researcher tried to remake the old 2D game and brought it into something new. This time, researcher chooses an Arkanoid game which was first introduced in 1986 and became very famous together with the raise of video game era on that moment. Not only makes it in the 3D version, but also researcher combines it with an Augmented Reality (AR) technology. And finally, this AR project is finalized through handheld devices so that it can be commercialized to the real world in the future. This paper discusses the technical aspect of the game, the design and development process and the result of user study. The goal of this research is to explore the affordances and constraints of handheld AR interfaces for 3D games. This project showed some promising results of handheld AR application in game. User feels that the game presentation with 3D and AR technology is more interesting than general 2D game, the immersion of virtual object in real world also brings unique game ambient and touch-screen gameplay makes the player becomes more engaged to the game. Researcher hopes this research can be the milestone and will inspire the further research of respected field. Researcher also hopes this Arkanoid AR game can educate the user of handheld device who mostly grew up in previous era of Arkanoid game, that they can easily get familiar with AR technology applications.