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snap unveiled its latest game called Ghost Phone. According to the company, Ghost Phone is using its world scanning technology to create an augmented reality horror title. Players are accosted by “ghosts” via their Snapchat camera, which they must try to defeat.
The game is a kind of found-footage horror title. The player discovers an abandoned phone and must find out what happened to its previous owner, Lisa. The investigation involves poking around the phone’s apps and eventually confronting the ghosts around them, using the phone as a kind of camera obscura. Based on the visuals, the game resembles found phone horror titles such as Simulacra or Sara is Missing. It also resembles the AR horror game Night Terrors, albeit with slightly more cartoonish ghosts.
Snap built the game using Snap Lens and the Playcanvas engine. Snap Lens’s surface recognition places the ghosts in the player’s own environment. They can defeat and collect multiple types of ghosts, unlock different camera modes and discover Lisa’s destiny.
Ghost Phone joins several other Snap Games and Minis on the Snapchat platform – most recently it together with HiDef to create a Bitmoji dance title. According to Snap, more than 300 million Snapchatters have used Games and Minis since its launch in 2019. The game launches today for all Snapchat users.
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