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A street of balconied buildings with a twisting tower at its centre, overlaid with glowing turquoise outlines of older arches and facades.
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Urban Echoes

A geolocated AR game across the layers of a city

urbanechoes.crowtec.co ↗
> by crowtecar game · 2024
01· the project
> A Crowtec product.> Part of the Map of History universe.

Every city, read as layers of time.

Urban Echoes is our geolocated AR game in the Map of History universe, and it reads any city as layers of time. As Ecco, a time explorer with the Time Orb, players cross the eras, from Al-Ándalus through Gothic, Baroque and Modernisme to the present, while La Grieta, a temporal anomaly, tries to erase every echo.

GPS unlocks content at monuments, squares and historic buildings, pointing the camera at a building brings its past back as an AR layer, and each era's guardian tests what the player knows about the place. It is the eighth Map of History adventure, built in Unreal Engine with ARKit and ARCore for iOS and Android, in closed testing with a public launch planned for 2026.

> cat /works/urban-echoes.md
TYPEAR GAME
OWN PRODUCTCrowtec
SERIESMAP OF HISTORY
YEAR2024
built with
  • Unreal Engine
  • ARKit
  • ARCore
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Geolocation
02· in numbers
5> eras, Al-Ándalus to the present
5> guardians, one per era
#8> Map of History adventure
2> platforms: iOS and Android
03· how it works
The AR view in a courtyard with palm trees and arcades, with a target ring on the paving.
01

Explore

GPS finds the monuments, squares and historic buildings nearby and unlocks the content of each place.

Ecco, hooded and in a teal cloak, holds up the glowing Time Orb in a real street while wireframe arches of an older building rise around.
02

Activate

Pointing the camera at a building brings its past back as an AR layer over the street.

Al-Harith in the dialogue screen: a bearded guardian in a hooded robe holding a glowing armillary orb.
03

Face

Each era's guardian tests what the player knows about the place, and some become allies.

Ecco walks with the lit orb through an Al-Ándalus hall of horseshoe arches and columns, its ornament traced in turquoise light.
04

Weave

Every echo solved adds to the city's temporal mural, while La Grieta tries to erase it.

04· gallery
05· credits
by crowtec. AR - GEO - GAME. 2024
06· references

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07· related project
> cd /works/map-of-history
Map of History> AR adventure game
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