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Designer ships AR ghost game in a week with Replit AI

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Ruth Heasman, a designer with no prior coding experience, successfully developed an augmented reality ghost-hunting game called Spookseek AR within a week using the Replit platform. She leveraged Replit Agent to assist in creating a custom 3D system, overcoming limitations in Expo's ARKit support. The game utilizes various phone hardware features like the camera, motion sensors, and haptics to provide an immersive experience, with the goal of shipping a functional app for a mobile buildathon. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates how AI coding assistants can empower non-technical individuals to create complex applications, potentially lowering the barrier to entry for app development.

RANK_REASON The article describes the use of a platform and its AI agent to build a specific application, highlighting the tool's capabilities rather than a novel model release or significant industry shift.

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Designer ships AR ghost game in a week with Replit AI

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  1. Replit blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Building Spookseek AR on Replit: How a Designer Shipped an AR Ghost Hunting Game in a Week

    Summary Designer turned builder Ruth Heasman ships Spookseek AR for Replit’s mobile Buildathon, turning a Halloween AR idea into a real iOS game. She builds for mobile first, leaning on camera, motion sensors, haptics, sound, and AR visuals so ghost hunting feels grounded in the …

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