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GUEST   / March 7, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Express Yourself! Augmenting Reality with Graffiti 3D

What if you could create art outside the boundaries of physics, but still within the real world? For artists like Sergio Odeith, this means playing tricks with perspective. Sergio makes stunning anamorphic (3D-perspective-based) art using spray paint, a surface with a right angle, and his imagination.

Creative 3D thinkers like Odeith should have the ability to use their freehand art skills to craft beautiful volumetric pieces. Not just illusions on the corners of walls, but three-dimensional works that that people can share the same space with. This was what inspired me to create Graffiti 3D – a VR demo that I entered into the Leap Motion 3D Jam. It’s available free for Windows, Mac, and Linux on my itch.io site.

Art & Design, Augmented & Virtual Reality, Guest Posts, Unity, UX Design
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LM   / March 3, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Press Bird to Play: Pirate Mini-Games and Thieving Seagulls

Over the next several weeks, we’re spotlighting the top 20 3D Jam experiences chosen by the jury and community votes. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward.

From the creator of LICHT little adventure, Press Bird to Play made a big impression thanks to its evocative atmosphere and engaging mini-games, landing in 10th place. In today’s spotlight, creator Gerald Terveen talks about his old-school gaming inspirations, and upcoming work on a new title called VR Adventure.

Leap Motion
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LM   / March 2, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Take Flight and Restore Balance to the Animal Kingdom with The Crow

Over the next several weeks, we’re spotlighting the top 20 3D Jam experiences chosen by the jury and community votes. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward.

Created by Andrew Kostuik and Ed Wisniewski at NORCAT’s Immersive Learning Centre, The Crow made a big impression thanks to its beautiful aesthetic and rich open-world concept. You can download the 3D Jam alpha demo or support further development by purchasing the beta at thecrowgame.com.

Leap Motion
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LM   / February 28, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Inside the Mysterious Beauty of Hammer Labs’ Otherworld

Over the next several weeks, we’re spotlighting the top 20 3D Jam experiences chosen by the jury and community votes. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward.
Featuring ambient music and beautiful visuals, Hammer Labs’ Otherworld takes you to a strange place where distant spirits stride in mile-long steps and magical puzzles wait to be solved. Available free for the Oculus Rift, Otherworld placed fourth in the 3D Jam. We caught up with coder Oliver Eberlei to ask about the project’s inception.

Leap Motion
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LM   / February 27, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Take the Reins of a Ghostly Hayride: Cherry Pie Games’ Hollow

In the lead-up to IndieCade East, we’re spotlighting the top 20 3D Jam experiences chosen by the jury and community votes. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward.

Recently updated with our official Unreal Engine plugin, Cherry Pie Games’ Hollow is a murky, mystical adaptation of Washington Irving’s classic horror tale. On horseback, you can explore a frighteningly familiar landscape where spectres haunt the edges of your vision. Hollow is available for Windows with optional (and highly recommended) Oculus Rift support.

Leap Motion, Unreal Engine
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LM   / February 26, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Step into the Darkness with Observatorium

Over the next several weeks, we’re spotlighting the top 20 3D Jam experiences chosen by the jury and community votes. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward.

Ready to step into the darkness? In Dominic Ricci’s survival horror demo Observatorium, you’ve been sent to a strange building in the middle of the woods, ostensibly to retrieve something your friend left there. Observatorium is available for Mac and Windows from the 3D Jam site.

Leap Motion
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LM   / February 23, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Gooze: Virtual Horror Based on a Real-Life Ruin

Over the next several weeks, we’re spotlighting the top 20 3D Jam experiences chosen by the jury and community votes. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward.

Finishing in 12th place, Fiery Things’ Gooze is a survival horror demo based on a real abandoned hospital near Berlin. The game, available for the Oculus Rift, involves solving puzzles to travel from room to room – all while avoiding strange entities. We caught up with creator Daniel Wiedemann to ask about the real-life inspiration behind the demo.

Leap Motion
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LM   / February 21, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Reality is Your Instrument: Composing in Soundscape VR

Over the next several weeks, we’re spotlighting the top 20 3D Jam experiences chosen by the jury and community votes. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward.

With its abstract visuals and sonic powers, Sander Snake’s Soundscape VR was voted community favorite by 3D Jam voters. Designed for the Oculus Rift, it’s available free for Mac and Windows on the Leap Motion App Store.

Augmented & Virtual Reality, Leap Motion Team, Music, Unity, UX Design
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LM   / February 20, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Magicraft: Swords and Sorcery in VR

Over the next several weeks, we’re spotlighting the top 20 3D Jam experiences chosen by the jury and community votes. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward.

Finishing in 5th place, Storm Bringer Studios’ Magicraft lets you play as a powerful mage in a land of swords and sorcery. While Magicraft is designed with VR in mind, a desktop version is also available – download it from our 3D Jam site or from the Steam Community.

Leap Motion
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LM   / February 19, 2015 / Leave a Comment

Let’s Make Fried Rice! Tool Tracking and Casual Cooking

Over the next several weeks, we’re spotlighting the top 20 3D Jam experiences chosen by the jury and community votes. These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward.

Let’s Make Fried Rice puts you in the shoes of a short order cook. Using tool tracking, grab your pan, extract ingredients, and churn out plates of hot fried rice as fast as your customers can order them. Download the desktop version for Mac and Windows, or the Rift version for Windows.

Gaming, Leap Motion Team, Unity
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