This is an augmented reality app game for anyone who has ever had to drive a small child (or me) anywhere, and needs to keep them occupied so they don't get asked rapid fire "are we there yet" in increasing tones of shrill.

The app capitalizes on an existing habit (I have ascertained that everyone does or did this, based on the three friends I asked) where the passenger imagines some sort of creature running alongside the car, jumping over the various hedges and fences and so on. All this app does is allow the player to select a type of animal- maybe a deer, or a rabbit, kangaroo, horse, wolf, tiger [...] sphinx, wee dragon, unicorn- and projects the running/jumping/ducking animal on the phone's screen. The player then mounts their phone in a convenient phone case with attached suction cups (it will be a thing), and sticks it to the window with the camera enabled so you see the animal against the existing scenery outside. You swipe up and down to jump/duck, and backwards and forwards to control the speed of the animal. (Although the app will set a base speed calculated by how fast the gps is moving if it is enabled). To counter the risk of travel sickness, feed your child pills the animal will be projected at a recommended distance so that the player is looking more towards the horizon than the immediate roadside.

Aside from that the rules of the game aren't enforced by the app; it's more of a game the player plays with themselves to while the time, with the app providing a visual aid. This is partly because the target audience for the app is between 5 and 10 (and me), and additionally it would be difficult to encode rules when the developer can't predict all the landscapes the animals would be up against. More animals can be unlocked the more distance you log (with gps), but if the player decides they have to jump over every hedge they encounter to order to "win", then that's their game.

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