As the creative collaboration between Google and LucasFilm’s Industrial Light & Magic, Lightsaber Escape is the latest in a series of Star Wars-themed Google Experiments, building up to the release of The Force Awakens on Friday.
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Google recently came up with a game for lightsaber fanatics called “Lightsaber Escape”. The games are categorized depending on the technology, but tapping on the mobile tag will bring you 55 experiments, including “Lightsaber Escape”. Lightsaber Escape lets you easily connect your handset, which you can then swing around to deflect lasers and slice at swathes of Stormtroopers. Besides, you’ll have a few days to play it through until Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters worldwide.
Last month, Google similarly asked users to pick a side on its Star Wars microsite. If you have a Cardboard set of any kind, you can also head on over to Google.com/starwars and explore Jakku Spy using your headset. You need to calibrate your smartphone by going to a specific url that should be the same as on your desktop browser.
But Google isn’t alone in capitalizing on the Star Wars fan love. The new game requires smartphone owners to convert their handsets into glowing lightsabers, the energy weapons used by Jedi and Sith characters in the Star Wars universe. Although the game has been built for Chrome, however, it also appears to work with other mobile browsers and devices. WebGL contributed in shaping high-fidelity graphics of the promo gaming app, and enabled it to offer an optimal experience within the browser.
While we’re not all lucky enough to be strong with the Force, anyone with the Chrome web browser and a smartphone can at least pretend for a little while.
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“The Force Awakens” looming, developers and companies all over the place have been up and about in creating a slew of products designed for Star Wars fans.
