On "The Matrix" - Augmented Reality Games has you

This is a talk I gave at the Australian Game Developers Conference a while back with some colleagues from UniSA.

These A-Rage games we created are kind of like `The Matrix' - in that, the game world is superimposed over the real world, using a head-mounted-visor.

`The Matrix' has you... kinda thing.

A-Rage AGDC (The Australian Game Developers Conference)


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Anyway - these games were all very fun to write the stories for...

`SKY INVADERS' is about Martians invading Earth...

Not exactly a `new' premise, but H G Wells is as good a source to rip off as any, right?

We also had TV news stories within the game, that played at certain points, as the circumstances of the game changed (depending on how the Player was doing against the alien invaders, i.e. the UFOs that are attacking them in their back yard, or - the park - or - wherever the Player is playing the actual game.)

I think the best line from the news broadcasts was:

"President Al Gore says - We will prevail, after all, we are the greatest planet on Earth."

Which actually is a homage to a line by General Jack D Ripper from "Dr Strangelove", except he was talking about our precious bodily fluids.

So, there you go.