Treasure Interactive Applications and Games

Treasure – play, create and explore

We designed and developed Treasure, a platform for creating and operating interactive mobile applications and games. It can be used for geolocation and escape games, team-building events, discovery trails, city guides and educational activities.

Project brief and objectives

The objective was to create a universal technology platform that would make it possible to prepare an interactive game for a specific location, event or customer quickly. The solution needed to support outdoor and indoor scenarios, individual and team play, while simplifying the creation of new content without requiring authors to work with a complex content management system.

Reference solution

Treasure separates the game application from its content. The author prepares a scenario using the supplied spreadsheet template, adds text and multimedia files, and submits the data for processing. Once the upload is complete, the author receives a game code that makes the content available in the universal Treasure Private application. The same foundation can also be used to create themed or fully bespoke applications with their own visual identity and feature set.

Players install the application from their mobile browser using a QR code. Once the scenario has been downloaded, the game content is available offline; a data connection is only required for features that depend on live data, such as online map layers, team locations or chat.

Game scenarios and interactions

• map-based games with routes and locations activated when players enter a defined perimeter,
• indoor games using QR-code scanning, clues and indoor maps,
• information points, questions, quizzes and multimedia challenges,
• time limits, continuous scoring and final results,
• individual and team modes, including team registration,
• real-time team location sharing and chat,
• a choice of standard, aerial or tourist map layers.

Technical solution

The game client is a progressive web application optimised for Android and iOS mobile devices. It is installed directly from Chrome or Safari and, once added to the home screen, behaves much like a native application. The client checks the connection to the application server and GPS availability, supports automatic updates, and securely stores downloaded game content for offline use.

Examples of delivered solutions

The platform has been used to create the Smugglers team game around Hotel Vista in Dolní Morava, the indoor detective game Murder at Hotel Vista, family walks with fairy-tale quizzes, the interactive City Guide, the Play Prague! project and Digitoulky, a geolocation game linked to book stories.

Benefits of the solution

Treasure makes it possible to reuse a single technology platform for a wide range of scenarios. It significantly shortens the preparation of a new game, makes content creation accessible to non-technical authors, and gives customers a path from a simple private scenario to a standalone application tailored to a specific event or brand.

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