You’re a paranormal matchmaker. In our mixed-reality AR game, you reunite love in the afterlife.
Fully custom & made from scratch with Unity, Blender, and GarageBand.

👻 Where’s My Boo?

🥇 Grand Prize Winner: Best of Immerse the Bay

A lonely ghost needs your help. She remembers almost nothing… just a few clues about the love she lost. In our mixed-reality AR game, you reunite love in the afterlife.

You’re a Paranormal Matchmaker!

Uncover ghosts in your own room, each with quirky personalities and hints about who they are. Listen closely, compare their stories, and sleuth out who’s the real “boo.”

Be careful: a wrong match can break her little ghost heart 💔.

With custom 3D characters, sound design, and storylines, our AR experience blends directly into your space on Meta Quest 3.

Our Goals

We wanted to explore AR storytelling + romance + mystery. We were intentional about choosing AR as the mechanism: there’s something exciting about seeing things appear in your own space that weren’t there before.

Our game turns your room into part of the narrative, making each ghost discovery feel surprising, immersive, and a little bit magical.

🛠️ How We Built It

All assets, audio, and storylines were made by hand:

Unity 6 + Meta XR SDK for mixed-reality interactions, such as hand detection and spatial scene rendering.
Meta Passthrough for blending ghosts into the real environment
Blender for 3D modeling + textures
GarageBand for ghost voices + sound effects

Accessibility & Inclusive Design

We designed Where’s My Boo? with younger and neurodivergent audiences in mind. The gameplay intentionally strengthens listening comprehension and character recognition: players learn by paying attention to each ghost’s narrative, personality, identifying patterns and remembering clues at their own pace.

The game uses the OpenDyslexic font for improved readability and features minimal, consistent controls (flashlight in left hand, net in right) to reduce cognitive load. This creates a gentle, low-pressure AR experience where any small room becomes an adventure.

⚠️ Challenges We Ran Into & How We Fixed Them

Passthrough felt glitchy and unnatural → We adjusted rendering settings and refined clipping to make ghosts blend smoothly into the room.
Audio cues were firing at the wrong time → We synced dialogue triggers to character visibility + player proximity.
Spatial anchors and lighting were inconsistent → We recalibrated anchors and added fallback positioning to stabilize ghost placement.
All ghosts talked at once when nearby → We limited dialogue so that only the ghost actively illuminated by the player can speak.
The net caught ghosts too early, breaking the narrative → We gated the catching mechanic so players must hear every ghost’s story first, to practice listening skills.