My second adventure game prototype is a traditional 2D adventure engine designed to explore whether the following are feasible:

• Developing it as a CocoaPod for reuse over a number of games
• Using a standard JSON format that would describe room parameters (e.g. walkable areas, object locations, NPC locations, environmental triggers, etc.)
• Using a separate JSON format to describe dialogue trees, with support for triggers, branching dialogue, and basic conditionals
• Recreating something like this in C# for use in Unity

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My first adventure game prototype is an ARKit-based app designed to explore the following:

• ARKit plane detection and the automatic insertion of models once suitable planes have been detected (as opposed to user-initiated placement)
• 3D modelling workflows between Blender and Xcode
• Map searches for generic locations and then, using the results, managing distance, accessibility, storage, and game state
• Geofencing triggers and how they might progress the game

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