What does this mean? What are we saying? Pixels? Food? Street vendors? It is what it sounds like. Take a moment to think. Today we have management games like a cooking city, manage your village etc. and they are engaging the audience optimally with personalization. It’s solely the action to reaction concept. But imagine taking this management craze to a different dimension. More like managing a real restaurant or a real hotel. It would be unbelievable if this concept actually existed. All I am trying to hint here is: bringing augmented reality into management games.
To get a better perspective, let’s understand a game called father.io that is currently using augmented reality as their USP. Essentially, it’s a group game played on the streets, simply using your phone. It’s not a “corner-pick game”. Your area becomes a massive battleground and you have tools within the interface that allow you to shoot at a distance. Purchasing the game comes with a clip-on gadget that acts like a locator and also a gun shooting tool.
Imagine incorporating augmented reality into a cafe or cooking management game, for example. It won’t be a 2D screen business anymore. Here’s what could happen if AR was to be inculcated in management games.
- A massive gaming event: We all know how comic-cons & animecons go like. Dress up as your favourite character and record the day. Now imagine all of this but in an event for cooking tycoon Here you can see gaming stalls for various kinds of food. The idea for customers could be just as basic as spending and collecting various food items. If brainstormed on the food items, we can as well have NFTs popping out of any random items. This is just a motivating factor for purchasing. Why NFTs? That’s because both augmented reality and NFTs are the new future in gaming as well as the investment sector. To get a vivid glimpse, zoom out the picture of this event and you can spot real beings with an augmented reality conveyor belt delivering a pixelated slice of pizza to the customer’s device. Reality will sure be deceiving but also exciting.
- Bible to business:
Who would have ever thought that one could learn business without even investing a dime and running a whole chain of hotels with the real understanding & behaviour of an average consumer? It could be true. Today with restaurant tycoon games like Star Chef 2, users are learning a major bit of hotel management & business revolving around it. If these platforms are infused with AR, there is no better way of getting a hang on business ups-and-downs, lessons, failures and the last minute & life saving business hacks.
There is much more to the management games that we have today and there could be much more if we combine futuristic ideas and concepts along the way.
