IGM Forum Finds: Fight of the Castle AR

Just released on the Android market, Fight of the Castle is a tower-defense strategy game for Android phones and tablets, but it has one big twist.

is a tower-defense strategy game for Android phones and tablets, but it has one big twist. It uses augmented reality (AR) to play the game. For those that are unaware, AR is adding 3-D objects into a game by making use of the device’s camera to pull the enemies off of the paper and into the game. For Fight of the Castle , you use the AR to defend your castle from the storming enemies that appear off the paper.

To play, the player simply prints out the AR image (it doesn’t matter whether it’s in black-and-white or color) and lays it flat on the table. The image is required in order to play the game. By viewing the image with any supported Android device, the image becomes interactive on the device and you must defeat the enemies to protect the castle.

Fight of the Castle is entirely free, excluding the small cost of printing out the AR image. The game saves automatically after each wave of enemies so players can easily close out of the game to utilize their phone or device without fear of entirely losing game progress. After forty balanced waves of enemies, an endless mode will begin. Throughout the game, players can upgrade their turrets and guns to defeat the spawning enemies in new ways. The game has four save slots so players can easily share their tablet and not lose their own game progress.  By rotating the paper, the player can get a different angle to see where the enemies are attacking the castle.

Fight of the Castle is available for the Android market from Google Play. The augmented reality pageis available on DropBox and is required for the game to work. Levi Buck, the developer of the game, has a page on IndieDBto update players about the game and links are also available there to get the AR page.