Media: Video Game

Genres: Fishing, AR/XR

Status: Published

Start date: 23 Mar, 2022

Release date: 12 May, 2022

Platform: Windows

Engine: Unity

A prototype AR/XR experience, Nice Fishing offers a charming adaptation of a fishing minigame. Hook as many fish as you can in the time span. Avoid the barrels, hitting them causes you to lose lives, run out of lives and its game over. Can you set a high score? Or will you get washed away in this chaotic short experience.

Nice fishing was part of an AR project me and my team undertook at University, the concept was to have a game based on our campus, where you went around and scanned QR codes which would then launch a minigame, depending on the QR code location. Nice fishing is a concept for an AR fishing minigame that was going to be a part of the AR experience. Heavily inspired from the club penguin fishing game, it is a very basic prototype as most of the work went into researching the campus and cobbleing together a cohesive idea. Much of the work is sadly lost, such as the 3D models, as we never got around to making it work in AR.

My role working on Nice fishing was the programming, this mainly consisted of making the game in unity and porting in the 2d assets from club penguin, and the ones that my team made. Whilst a simple concept, there is alot going on behind the scenes, such as random spawns of the fish and barrels, along side a difficulty that ramps up over time.