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Snap revealed its latest recreation known as Ghost Cellphone. In accordance with the corporate, Ghost Cellphone incorporates its world-scan tech to make an augmented actuality horror title. Gamers can be accosted by “ghosts” by way of their Snapchat digital camera, which they have to try and defeat.
The sport is a type of found-footage horror title. The participant discovers an deserted cellphone and should discover out what occurred to its earlier proprietor, Lisa. The investigation contains poking across the cellphone’s apps and ultimately confronting the spirits round them utilizing the cellphone as a type of digital camera obscura. Based mostly on the footage, the sport appears to be like much like found-phone horror titles like Simulacra or Sara is Lacking. It additionally resembles the AR horror recreation Evening Terrors, albeit with barely extra cartoonish spooks.
Snap constructed the sport utilizing Snap Lens and the Playcanvas engine. Snap Lens’s floor recognition places the ghosts within the participant’s personal atmosphere. They will defeat and gather a number of sorts of ghosts, unlock completely different digital camera modes and uncover Lisa’s destiny.
Ghost Cellphone joins a number of different Snap Video games and Minis on the Snapchat platform — most lately, it partnered with HiDef to make a Bitmoji dance title. In accordance with Snap, over 300 million Snapchatters have used Video games and Minis since they launched in 2019. The sport launches right now for all Snapchat customers.
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