Summary

An educational Touchscreen AR experience illustrating the dangers and effects of speeding on the road.

Production

This project was a joint collaboration between the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT), indie studio Interactive Nature, and a few independent contractors (that’s me!!). I served as a Game Designer and Unreal Developer throughout production, and was very hands-on with the project from its concept phase all the way thru release on the App Store and subsequent updates.

The development lifecycle was only 3 months long, which was a huge departure for me after having worked on MLK for 16 months. I’m proud of what we were able to create within such a short timespan!

Content

The application consists of two game modes, along with a handful of UI-only screens.

At first, the player will drive along a pre-defined track, trying to follow the speed limit signage. If the player makes it to the end of the track without crashing, they win. However, if they go over the speed limit on a turn in the track, they will trigger a cutscene showing their vehicle crashing into an obstacle.

After the crash sequence, the player will enter AR mode. This allows them to place their wrecked vehicle into the real world at an almost-life-sized scale, and explore the damage up-close.

My Responsibilities

While on the project, I served as a Game Designer and Unreal Developer - coupled together into one title as a Technical Game Designer. I was the only developer-type person on the project, so my role was primarily to build functionality and make design choices following the client’s initial requests. Along with this, I also…

• Communicated frequently with our Producer and clients, providing progress updates, screenshots, video footage of the application in progress, and design challenges for us to discuss

• Communicated daily with our little development team consisting of myself, our Producer, and a 3D Artist

• Built the primary functionality of the application, including player controls, scene transitions, AR functionality, and conducted testing on mobile devices (iOS and Android)

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