The next AR Game - Balloon Invaders AR

Mayank Raj — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:36:15 +0000

Welcome to Balloon Invaders! - an AR balloon popping game.

Your mission is to pop the balloons that have invaded your living room. The game uses Augmented Reality to spawn balloons around you, after which you can look around to find them. Once they appear, pop the Balloons with a tap!
There are multiple kinds of balloons, having different features and colours. Pop as many balloons as you can before the time gets over.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.AgrMayank.BalloonInvaders

It's March 2024, a month after the Balloon Invasion began. The Earth has fallen into chaos. The Balloons have taken over half of the planet already. It's total madness out there.
Help us stop the invasion. Come on, let's go. We need your help!

FEATURES:
• Play in Augmented Reality (AR).
• Easy to play even for kids!
• Single-player Time Limit mode.
• Huge Variety of Balloons with different colours.
• Night Mode to pop balloons at the night (Turn off the lights).
• Dedicated Photo Mode / AR Camera for taking beautiful photos with the balloons.
• Directly Share photos with your friends and family via social media!
• Google Play Leaderboard for competing with friends.
• Complete Achievements to get rewards.

BALLOON TYPES:
• Regular Balloons (Multi-colour): +5 Points
• Bunch of Balloons (Multi-colour): +3 Points Each
• Defective Balloons (Brown): 0 Points
• The Evil Balloons (Black): -5 Points
• Extra Time Balloons (White/Neon Green): +3 Seconds Time

HOW TO PLAY:
• Look around to find balloons in your room.
• See those Balloons floating around you?
• Tap on them to shoot before they disappear.
• Yay! You popped a Balloon.

NOTES:
• Works best with Android devices that have 3GB RAM and run on Android 7.0 and above.
• Use devices that support ARCore for optimal performance.

My Journey till #2020, 1 Step at a Time 🥽

Mayank Raj — Wed, 20 May 2020 07:31:35 +0000

Into the Journey

As I began my journey in engineering, I wasn't sure what to do, where to begin and the most important of them all, what I wanted to become! Everything was new and yet there wasn't anything specific that caught my attention or made me say, "This is what I was looking for the whole time!".

To be honest, I had a pretty good understanding of the basics of computer science and have been coding since over 10 years ago (from GW-Basic to Java and beyond), searching the one thing I truly wanted to do, experimenting with all sorts of different technologies in the process (from creating websites via WordPress to Machine Learning and the one thing that took over my heart!!

Yeah, it was Augmented, Virtual Reality!! The concept of escaping into a world of his own is every child's dream come true, and yet here it was, not just a silly dream, but something that can actually come true!!

A Brief History of Projects

After getting into AR, the only thing that was limiting me was the actual smartphone capabilities. Tech wasn't so advanced yet!

I built Educational projects like Solar System AR

AgrMayank / Solar-System-AR

Our whole Solar System in Augmented Reality!

Solar-System-AR

A Unity project along with all assets, showcasing our Solar System along with all the 8 planets revolving around the Sun and rotating on their axis.

Demo

YouTube URL - https://youtu.be/aomUsM1WbCk

Download Build

Download the latest release here

Quickstart

Download Unity version 2018 or above.
Download Microsoft Visual Studio Community.
Platform specific SDK such as Android build tools are also required.

How to Use?

To build the project you need to go to Menu>Build Settings>your-os>Build And Run

Don't forget to change the Bundle Id under the Menu>Build Settings>your-os>Player Preferences

Note

A Vuforia license (free/paid) is required for building this project for Android/iOS.

The Image target needs to be changed before building the project if using Ground Plane.

License

Solar System AR is licensed under a The GNU General Public License v3.0.

Made with ❤ by AgrMayank

View on GitHub

I also participated in an XR hackathon HackYourReality and made it through the first phase. We build AidXR, a first Aid solution in Augmented Reality.

AgrMayank / AidXR

Saving lives through XR!!

AidXR

HackYourReality - Accenture XR Hackathon

Team

Releases

You can download the latest release from here.

How to use?

Go to the releases page.
Download & Install the APK.
Open the AidXR app.
Give Camera and other Permissions (first time only)
Choose a scenario i.e. skin burns, snake bites, etc.
Follow the on-screen instructions to detect a surface.
Select the step number (i.e. 1, 2 or 3).
Tap on the screen where to place the corresponding objects.
Repeat the previous step for other steps.
Click Play/Pause Button on the top right corner to play the corresponding video.
Click Info Button at the bottom for Emergency Information.
Press Back Button to go to the main menu.

Note

Your device MUST support ARCore to be able to run this application.
For Android…

View on GitHub

Getting selected as a #MadeWithUnity showcase and speaker was a great surprise for me! It was an open-world project I had just started working on.

AgrMayank / Foggy-Forest

You are a Barbarian lost in the Foggy Forest!!!

Foggy Forest!

You are a Barbarian lost in the Foggy Forest!!!
Will you be able to get out of this foggy wasteland or be stuck here for eternity?

Let's find out!

Demo

YouTube URL - https://youtu.be/lYNYlB1hgU8

Quickstart

Download Unity version 2018 or above.
Download Microsoft Visual Studio Community.
Platform specific SDK such as Android build tools are also required.

How to Use?

To build the project you need to go to Menu>Build Settings>your-os>Build And Run

Don't forget to change the Bundle Id under the Menu>Build Settings>your-os>Player Preferences

License

Foggy Forest is licensed under a The GNU General Public License v3.0.

Made with ❤ by AgrMayank

View on GitHub

Last but not the least, I wrote a blog on getting started with AR for fellow students and developers alike who wanted to get started with AR development.

Getting started in Augmented Reality (AR) using Unity

Mayank R. ・ Jan 12, 2020 ・ 3 min read
Medium

You can view my complete portfolio here - AgrMayank.GitHub.io!

My Final Project

As my Final College Project, I made an AR navigation and information app of my college using Unity. GitHub Student Developer pack helped me get free access to Unity Pro which is awesome! Along with it, I also got access to ImgBot which reduced the size of my project significantly and JetBrains Rider which helped me code faster in C#!

Link to Code

The code to 90% of my projects is open-source! You can fork and use them as you want. You can download my Final Year Project by visiting the link below and going to the Download Build section or the releases page -

AgrMayank / Tri-Netra

An Augmented Reality based information system for Trident Academy of Technology

Tri-Netra

An Augmented Reality based information system for Trident Academy of Technology

Download Build

Download the latest release here

Quickstart

Download Unity version 2018 or above.
Download Microsoft Visual Studio Community.
Platform specific SDK such as Android build tools are also required.

How to Use?

To build the project you need to go to Menu>Build Settings>your-os>Build And Run

Don't forget to change the Bundle Id under the Menu>Build Settings>your-os>Player Preferences

Made with ❤ by AgrMayank

View on GitHub

Building the App

First of all, I built the 3D model of my college using Blender3D! It took a while to make it look as close as possible to the actual buildings. After that, I needed to import the model directly into my Unity project. For the AR part, I utilized ARFoundation by Unity so that I don't have to worry about cross-compatibility issues later on. Then it was all a matter of optimizing the app and adding useful features to it (such as Lean Touch package).
Let me know if you liked my project via LinkedIn or Twitter.

Final Words

It has been an amazing journey so far and is gonna be even more exciting in the years to come! Sooner or later, the future is gonna change as it did with smartphones and we're gonna be a BIG part of it!

Forem: Mayank Raj

The next AR Game - Balloon Invaders AR

My Journey till #2020, 1 Step at a Time 🥽

Into the Journey

A Brief History of Projects

AgrMayank / Solar-System-AR

Our whole Solar System in Augmented Reality!

Solar-System-AR

Demo

Download Build

Quickstart

How to Use?

Note

License

AgrMayank / AidXR

Saving lives through XR!!

AidXR

Team

Releases

How to use?

Note

AgrMayank / Foggy-Forest

You are a Barbarian lost in the Foggy Forest!!!

Foggy Forest!

Demo

Quickstart

How to Use?

License

Getting started in Augmented Reality (AR) using Unity

Mayank R. ・ Jan 12, 2020 ・ 3 min read Medium

My Final Project

Link to Code

AgrMayank / Tri-Netra

An Augmented Reality based information system for Trident Academy of Technology

Tri-Netra

Download Build

Quickstart

How to Use?

Building the App

Final Words

Mayank R. ・ Jan 12, 2020 ・ 3 min read
Medium