Bringing new players up to speed in as short a time as possible is the goal of any game designer. People learn using different senses. A short video is normally the best way. Using cell phone image technology you can design your game QRS, forms, data cards and rulebooks to have an area a player can stream a video and take them to an online site with a PDF of the written rules. This eliminates the need to look up rules and also have a video demo of all aspects of the game.
For this demo, I programmed a portion of the Treadheads Panther data card as a trigger image to stream a video to my cell phone using the Aurasma AR cell phone app. I plan on having nine areas on the front of the data card that will be trigger images.
The videos will cover the characteristics (strengths and weaknesses) and strategies for the vehicle, Situational Awareness and turret rotation, ranging, bracketing, ranged in, halt fire, moving fire, hit location and armor layout and moving shooter accuracy. In the rule book, I'll have icons that will do the same thing for each section.
The quality is not very good. I still need some work on the video as it is tough to get a good image with close-ups. I'll be trying other cameras but I think this gets a general idea across.
AR demo video: youtu.be/GQEHpvQ5BLk
Here is the full video that is being streamed in better quality:
YouTube link
Wolfhag
