HOT: Great Motion controlled Game Mirage Money free to download

Maybe you remember my discovery of the great accelerometer using game “Mirage Money”. The game is one of the first games with nice 3D graphics and motion based control.

This time, it was only a project by Paul Coulton and Fadi Chehimi to show the power of an API called “Mirage-X” they together developed to provide 3D motion control for navigating with 3D virtual and augmented environments running on mobile phones.

Thanks to a comment of Paul, I know they made “Mirage Money” finally available for download and I must say that the video didn’t promise too much: the game works nearly perfect.

You are playing from the first person perspective, moving around in your real environment or virtual world only with movements of your phone. Accelerometer technology detects your up / down / left / right movements and transfers them into the game. As I said, the control is wonderfully balanced so that “Mirage Money” is a very nice accelerometer game experience.

Mirage Money:

“Mirage Money” includes two different mode. The first one is called “Real Mirage”.

This mode is partly virtual and partly real. The user must open the camera protector to let the game implement your real environment captured with the phone camera.

This looks amazing and it’s great fun to try to achieve the game’s target in your own environment: to collect as many coins as possible in a time of two minutes.

You can collect the two different kins of coins, golden and silver ones, by “colliding” with them with your screen.

The other mode “Virtual Mirage” lets you play in a virtual 3D environment.

The 3D graphics look pretty impressive and it’s also great fun to play in this virtual world of meadows, hills and a blue sky.

The gaming principle is exactly the same as in “Real Mirage”. However, it’s easier to play in the virtual world, because you can really “move around” there. This is of course not possible in the real world: only the coins are moving to give the gamer an impression of movement.

The speed of how fast you are moving through the world can be changed: The little bar at the right shows the current speed…

… which I can rise with a press on the “Up” key as you can see in the screenshot. Of course you can also slow the speed down again with a “Down” key press.

“Mirage Money” is a must have if you like accelerometer applications, not only because it is the one of the first games which uses motion control meaningfully. It’s great fun to collect money into your own living room or in a wonderfully looking virtual world!

I have taken a little video of the “Virtual Mirage” mode. Really not a good one, without sound (yeah, there’s even some techno music playing), but I didn’t have a good camera:

You can download “Mirage Money” at Nokia Mosh. The developers would be very pleased to receive feedback, here at SWB or at Nokia Mosh.