Alex Macklai, designer of Sea of Nadia, talks about augmented reality and board games.
Alex has been working on an AR-centric game for 2 years and has some interesting insight on the topic.
For more info: www.maclaysgames.com
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Alchemists and Golem Arcana are two games that come to mind using AR. Golem Arcana didn’t do very well in the market; Alchemists is doing better. But in any case it’s worth looking at them to see what they did and how it might be done better.
Oh, and there are also lower-tech ways to deal with rules questions that are also a big advance over the current state. The Spirit Island FAQ is one: http://is.gd/sifaq
(I’m a maintainer.)
Wow, that’s a really cool system.