tontachiAR Overdue Updates!

John Wolff
Urban Electronic Games
3 min readOct 4, 2021

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So what’s up with the tontachiAR project you ask!?

A lot. Like..so much.

As 2021 started we finished up our first prototype and then torn it to shreds. We’ll spare you the gory details, but we needed to refactor a lot.

Now, Tontachi is looking crispy.. bacon-like crispy🥓

Here’s the latest!

‘Pigtures’🐷📸

We’ve made it possible to socially share photos taken of your pet piggies (Called Tons; Tons come in the form of Eggton or Crypton)
By hitting the Camera, “Pigtures” are automatically taken and uploaded to a shared album on Imgur!
Below are a few examples taken all over the US!

Niantic Partnership Power!?

We were amongst a few developers chosen to utilize Niantic (PokemonGo)’s new Augmented Reality SDK, Lightship 🚀.
Integrating Lightship into Tontachi has vastly changed the trajectory of the project…

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John Wolff
Urban Electronic Games

Strange foreigner「変な外人」, exploring international business via the game industry. Focused on the horizon, Japanese and Mental health