Snap is launching new Lens Studio tools that augmented reality creators and developers can use to create games with Bitmoji, the company announced in an exclusive interview with TechCrunch. The company is also releasing the Bitmoji Suite, as well as new resources for games.
In Lens Studio 5.10, the new game resources offer developers new ways to create dynamic Lens games, the company says. We get a turn-based system that allows you to play back and forth, as well as the ability to Snap and respond to a challenge or turn in the same game.
There’s also a new customizable character controller that supports a variety of play styles, including third-person, first-person, side-scroller, and top-down perspective. The leaderboard has also been updated with new templates for the start and end screens, standardized and hybrid display of friends and global scores, and new friend-related metrics such as “friends who have played.”
Bitmoji Suite offers new tools for personalizing and animating Bitmoji. Users can now create their own Bitmoji outfits, generate stylized props, and animate them using the Snap library.
The company is also launching a new collection of single-player and turn-based Bitmoji game lenses that users can play and challenge their friends to. The new lenses include Bitmoji Bistro, Bitmoji Buckets, and Beatmoji Blast.
Users can already play a number of game lenses created by AR developers, but this is the first time Snap has introduced a collection of Bitmoji game lenses designed to challenge your friends.
“Lens Studio empowers our dynamic community of over 375,000 AR creators, developers, and teams to seamlessly create and publish lenses, so we’re excited to give them even more tools to get creative,” the company said in an email to TechCrunch.
