Dan The RC Man
Masters Project - Solo
Dan The RC Man was a three month project as part of a university assignment. The project was an exploration in using a vehicle as a player character instead of a humanoid character for a puzzle platformer. A car has very sluggish movement mechanics compared to snappy movement a human character might have, thus would require a level design to accommodate and challenge this characteristic.
I had worked with Augmented Reality on a previous project and was intrigued by the possibilities of AR. However, I possessed no prior experience in programming and needed to learn programming from scratch for this project. I am especially glad I worked on this project for this very reason.
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The key inspiration for this project was RC cars and toys. Around the time when this project started, I wanted an RC car but I was living in university accommodation and did not have the space (or money) to store it. This led me to wonder if the joy of RC cars could be replicated in AR.
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If you would like to check it out, the Android executable can be downloaded here.
