Five Minute Kingdoms (AR/MR for Meta Quest 3)

[This game is for Meta Quest 3/3S only!]

Five Minute Fortress is a chaotic, physics-based mixed-reality tower-defense game where epic battles between absurd miniature factions unfold on your real furniture.

Using only your hands, build wobbling fortresses, slingshot units into battle, flick away invaders, and puppet massive bosses in bite-sized five-minute challenges you can jump into anytime. 

[Full touch controller controls are added for accessibility]

Game Jam: I made this game in about a month for the Meta Horizon Start Developer Competition 2025. You can read more about my experience and inspiration making the game on the contest entry page here: https://devpost.com/software/five-minute-kingdoms

Much testing needed: I haven't had the chance to test it out in any other rooms other than my very sparse concrete large living/kitchen room yet, so it might be a lot tougher or easier in smaller rooms, or more interesting in rooms with more furniture. I'd appreciate any reports/videos on how it worked in your rooms.

Also, the challenges/units/walls will definitely need some balancing. Most challenges are probably too easy, but this was made as a "casual gaming" kind of tower-defense / real-time-strategy. Place your keep in the center of the floor in your room for more challenge.

Controls & Instructions:
For each challenge, defend the keep at all costs until the ritual is complete.

Action	Hand Tracking	Touch Controllers
Grab	Pinch with index finger + thumb	Grip
Show Build Palette a palette of items that you can grab and place into the world	Spread a hand open, palm facing up	Flip a controller sideways so that your palm is facing up
Flick Causes damage + knockback to foes	Flick with middle finger and thumb, like flicking a marble/coin. Hold in curled position to charge for more power.	Pull thumbstick back to charge, release thumbstick to flick
Slingshot Sends things flying. Powers up slingshotted units w/ 3x damage/knockback, cleaving, and invulnerability for 10 seconds.	Spread index finger and thumb apart with other fingers curled to show rubber band. Pull object through the rubber band and pull back, then release.	Push thumbstick forward to show slingshot. Then pull object through rubber band and pull back.
Distance Grab Pulls distant units towards you	Point with your index+middle fingers at the target and wiggle them very rapidly, with the other fingers curled.	Hold trigger + grip at the same time while pointing at the target.
In-Game Pause Menu	Left pinch while pointing palm towards you.	Left menu button
Puppeting the Boss At the end of the defense stage, if your keep is still intact, then it will summon the invincible god-like boss for your to smite your trembling enemies	Make a fist to start the puppeting. The puppet will follow your hand and be grounded to whatever floor or surface is beneath your hand. It will face in the direction of your palm. Thrash about and smash/trample remaining foes.	Hold the trigger to start puppeting. The puppet will follow your controller and be grounded to whatever surface is beneath your controller. Thrash about and smash/trample remaining foes.

Known issues:

1. Epic crashes (fixed in Post-Jam build v0.1.1): Sometimes during the most epic moments, like right before or soon after the legendary Hand of Ruin shows up, the game can temporarily freeze visually (though things are still happening, but the room tracking can't figure out where you are?) or crash! The device can't handle this level of epic-ness. I'll figure it out. Play sandbox mode for a less intense experience.
2. Unreasonable bounds: The game doesn't really place reasonable bounds on how many units/walls you can place. For the sandbox mode, where you have unlimited time/resources, for vast fortresses, you'll run up into performance limits for the Meta Quest 3, and the framerate or room-tracking will deteriorate. If you've reached that point, then congratulations, you've beat the game!?
3. Scanned furniture/room offset: If all the walls and furniture outlines are in-sync with each other but are not aligned with your actual room, and you want to try to get it closer, then quit and restart the game. Also, when you take off the headset, step outside the guardian boundary, or lose tracking, the game will think you're in a different position than you are. Or if you put the headset on after starting the game, it will be off.