Play in the City (Gramy w Mieście) came from the fact that we often pass interesting places without knowing their history. I wanted to combine walking with puzzles and information – not just move through the city but discover it.
The idea: you choose an urban or online game, get the puzzle location, find the place, solve the task. After a correct answer the system shows facts and history. Each game is also a lesson about the place.
There are two modes. Urban games – you walk the city and solve puzzles on the spot. You can join ready-made routes (mine and partners’) or create your own adventure with puzzles in the area. Online games – puzzles you can solve from anywhere, e.g. with Google Street View and Wikipedia. For those who can’t be in the city in person.
Watching users discover places they’d never heard of is satisfying. Locals discover corners of their neighbourhoods, tourists get local stories, teachers use the platform on school trips.
Working on the project confirmed that good projects come from passion and wanting to share it. I plan to develop it further: user-created puzzles, possible AR elements, a community around discovering cities. Try it – Play in the City.
