Reflections.

The idea behind our project was to enliven and improve the experience of Pokemon cards. While there are many other trading card games, Pokemon seems to be the most well known one in this country. It's an entertaining game, which can be simple, or complex, depending on the players preferences. This makes it popular among children and adults, although many adults today play it for the nostalgic aspect. Either way, it's good fun. Card games have been around for a long time - and the format has remained relatively unchanged. By using augmented reality, we could really enhance the experience of players, and expand the audience of people interested in the game. It would be an entertaining experience, and possibly merge the ideas of video gaming and physical gaming together.

If we were to expand on the project, we could implement more interactivity with the creatures. If we were going to 'upgrade' the format of current Pokemon cards, it would be important to discover how that could be implemented. (Possibly with different AR markers for different attacks, and AR damage counters?)

The project has been a good experience. I'm glad we explored the idea - maybe in the future we could expand the project as described above. I also think experimenting with AR and teaching would be a very interesting topic to look at - perhaps we could merge the two.

I'm hoping that people will enjoy the project. It's not as developed as it could be, but I know it's been a large effort on the second years part. I have no clue about how to code the program, and I'm really grateful to work with people that know how! I'm hoping that although the project hasn't reached it's maximum potential (which would be totally re-creating the Pokemon card game) that viewers / users will still be able to enjoy and appreciate it.

If we were to fully develop our project and launch it into the 'real world', it would be interesting to demonstrate it at a conference or somewhere similar. Getting people's feedback and gathering some statistics, which could help us to improve the product could be really helpful. In the future, this might be something to think about (on a smaller, more realistic scale) for other projects (asking for other students opinions, etc).

Another improvement would be more detailed characters - I have a very limited knowledge of 3D design software, and if I were to learn more, I feel I could make something far better than I have done.