Gamemakers keep trying to marry digital and physical games, and augmented reality is one of the ways to do that. So the folks at French game maker Peoleo have created an augmented-reality trading card game called Drakerz-Confrontation.
Drakerz-Confrontation
It’s a small budget title, but it has some clever ideas that show the developers are thinking hard about bridging the digital-physical divide. The fantasy card game lets you play with physical trading cards that you put on the table in front of a PC with a webcam. The camera reads the images on the cards, which look like any other deck of trading cards, and then it makes some animated magic happen on the computer screen. (Check out the video at the bottom to see.)
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