"The Sungod's Journey Through the Netherworld" // AR Game

Scenographic design & artistic
direction for AR stations of the AR Game »The Sungod’s Journey Through the Netherworld«

The State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich is one of the most important collections in the German-speaking area. The museum shows exhibits from all periods of Ancient Egypt up to the Coptic period.

DER MEDIENBAYER designed the stations of the novel multiplayer augmented reality game for ARaction GmbH »The Sungod’s Journey Through the Netherworld«. This game is designed like an escape room game, players have to help the sun god Re on his journey through the night and thus find the way out of the museum for themselves.

The AR Game was implemented with the innovative software of ARaction GmbH, which runs on specially adapted mobile devices. The basis for this is the ARCore technology, which enables precise localization of the players in the rooms and creates an extremely immersive augmented reality experience.

Scope:
Scenographic design & art direction for AR stations incl. storyboard development & art director for 3D design.

Technology:
ARaction App, Google ARCore, Unity, Cinema4D, Illustrator, InDesign

Website of the museum:
https://smaek.de/ar/

Implementation:
https://www.ar-action.com/project-smaek-treasure-hunt-game/

Client:
ARaction GmbH