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Snap revealed its latest recreation referred to as Ghost Telephone. In response to the corporate, Ghost Telephone incorporates its world-scan tech to make an augmented actuality horror title. Gamers shall be accosted by “ghosts” through their Snapchat digicam, which they need to try to defeat.
The sport is a form of found-footage horror title. The participant discovers an deserted cellphone and should discover out what occurred to its earlier proprietor, Lisa. The investigation consists of poking across the cellphone’s apps and ultimately confronting the spirits round them utilizing the cellphone as a form of digicam obscura. Based mostly on the footage, the sport seems just 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 surroundings. They will defeat and accumulate a number of sorts of ghosts, unlock completely different digicam modes and uncover Lisa’s destiny.
Ghost Telephone 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 response to Snap, over 300 million Snapchatters have used Video games and Minis since they launched in 2019. The sport launches at this time for all Snapchat customers.
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