ALT

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My Role: Lead Developer

ALT is a prototype for a reusable mobile AR platform by Shovels and Whiskey, designed to empower artists, teachers, and students to successfully explore AR with a minimum of coding experience.

Developed in Unreal Engine, the platform allows user to add their own artwork and alternative-history narrative text to a flexible AR game framework, making it discoverable and interactable in locations of their choosing.

This is an ongoing project, and is made possible by a grant from Epic Games. You can learn more on the project HERE.

The ALT intro screen.
The app includes a flexible, interactive text system that users designing their own ALT experience can edit to suit the narrative they are creating.
Collectable artifacts can be placed modularly anywhere in the world for players to find.
Players must “track” artifacts, which move around them space, in order to collect the artifacts and discover the ALT narrative.
Items are collected and stored between sessions.