Immergency - Climate Change Escape Room in AR

Introduction We worked alongside the Immergency team to create a collaborative game in AR that educates players on climate change policies, and the importance of working together to reduce our carbon emissions as part of a XR competition. Immergency wanted to recreate a virtual ‘escape room’ experience, where the user has to go through a series of puzzles and minigames to reach a goal, which in this case was lowering the CO2 levels before 2050. What we did To recreate the AR ‘escape room’ feeling, we created multiple different puzzles and minigames to be solved in a certain order to achieve the goal. As collaboration was an essential aspect to the story told in this game, we used Augmented Reality, as unlike Virtual Reality, AR is something most people can experience as long as they have a smartphone, making it much more accessible. Not only can anyone easily crowd around a phone and figure out puzzles together, but users can also join in on different devices, so more people can get involved. Companies like Apple are developing this collaboration between devices even further, so creating a game that could be developed more in the future was important to us.