ARBLAST: AR Team Battle

Hatchify Pty Ltd

About this game

ARBLAST turns a real space into a team arena. Hold your phone sideways like a blaster and walk through a hall, gym, classroom or living room: the screen shows a painted game world instead of the camera picture, with the room's own walls and furniture standing in it as barriers, crates and rocks. Tag the other team in the same space — every phone sees the same arena, the same bases and the same players. It plays like laser tag, with nothing to hire.

FIVE WAYS TO PLAY
• TEAM BATTLE: BLUE vs RED, up to 5 v 5, in the same room. Host from your phone, or let an organiser run it
• VS COMPUTER: the Red Circuit campaign. Five levels of RED bots that hunt you at walking pace, keep their distance and only blast after a wind-up you can step out of, then the boss, OHMEGA. Play alone or with up to nine friends on BLUE, on EASY, NORMAL, HARD or EXPERT
• SOLO RANGE: RED practice heroes walk around your room and send harmless bolts your way. Line them up and knock them down. No poster, server or other players needed
• FRIEND PRACTICE: one phone and one friend, who becomes the RED hero to tag. They don't need the app
• JOIN WITH QR: scan the organiser's or the host's QR code, or type the six-letter code

PLAY FOR REAL
• Aim by turning and moving: your phone is your blaster
• Two blasters: the rapid VOLT BLASTER and the precise SPARK BLASTER
• Tagged out? Walk back into your base ring to respawn
• Timed matches with a live scoreboard, countdown, results and MVP
• Campaign stars, a running score and the level you've reached, kept on your phone only

ONE ARENA FOR EVERYONE
• Scan the printed ARBLAST poster and every phone shares the arena: boundaries, bases and each other
• In a match the phones share what their cameras find, so the same crate stands in the same place on every screen
• See teammates and opponents as heroes with name tags and health bars; opponents hide behind real walls
• Ping the map and send quick callouts like "NEED BACKUP" to your team
• iPhone and Android phones play together in the same arena

BUILT FOR SAFE, SUPERVISED PLAY
• Walk, don't run: quick heads-ups when you move too fast, a player is close behind you, or a wall or step is in your path
• Leave the arena and your blaster stops until you walk back in
• The bots walk, never run, and back off when you get close
• Organisers and venue staff can pause every phone at once from the ARBLAST console
• Play in a clear space with an adult or venue staff supervising

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• The camera picture never leaves your phone: it's used on the phone to find the room, never recorded or uploaded
• No GPS, no ads, no in-app purchases
• No chat with strangers: preset team callouts and map pings only. No free text, no voice, no direct messages
• Play without an account. Optional player accounts are for ages 13 and over

RUN BY ORGANISERS
Teachers, sports clubs, holiday programs and venues run team games from the organiser console at arblast.io: plan matches, share a join link or QR code, print team bibs, watch the match live on a big screen and pause every phone at once. Organisers can also stream a match to their own channels; a stream is drawn from the game itself (the virtual arena, callsigns and scores) and never shows camera video.

ARBLAST needs an Android phone that supports Google Play Services for AR (ARCore).

What’s new

New: blaster controllers. Put your phone in a Bluetooth phone-holder blaster and its trigger and buttons work like the on-screen ones: the trigger fires, the reload pull or A reloads, Y swaps blasters and X pings your team. Connect one in Settings → Controls → Blaster controller. It only talks to your phone.
Fixed: FIRE no longer keeps going after you let go if firing paused while you held it.