Surprise Me - a platform for creating quests in the form of personal mobile applications
My name is Alexander Golovaty, I am 24 years old, since October 2014 we are working with a team of 3 people on the project Surprise Me . This is a service in which everyone can choose ready or create their own quest and send it to the hero of the occasion in the form of a personal mobile application. Quest can be used as a gift or as a way of non-standard congratulations.
The idea of service came not by chance. Every year I puzzle over what an unusual gift to give to my relatives and how I can surprise them. It is said that the best gift - a gift made by hand. And if this gift is a quest, which is also independently invented, then thanks for the best gift for any holiday can not be avoided - this has been tested in practice.
The idea of the service is as follows: when registering, Surprise Me offers several quest scenarios for different occasions (Birthday, March 8, and many other holidays) or you can create a quest with your own script. When setting up a quest scenario using custom modules, each event can be linked to the time or place of the event. The event can be a task in the form of a puzzle or just an audio series with your favorite tracks of the hero of the occasion, which he will listen to during a trip to the subway, while sending the audio to the series can be set up while the person goes down to the subway.
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What we do now
On February 14, we tested our idea by manually writing mobile apps with quest scenarios for the focus group. Each of the clients himself was involved in the creation of quest scenarios. Everything went well and the second half of the selected focus group was very pleased and, most importantly, pleasantly surprised by such a gift from our customers.
We are currently working on the development of a service that will help create quests and send them in any convenient way (link via SMS, letter to mail, etc.) as a mobile application. Launch platform with minimal functionality is planned at the end of the summer.
What we want to do in the future
In the future, we plan to make available the customization of the personal design of each mobile application in three simple steps. We also want to develop an affiliate network, which will allow for example to order and pay for flowers in a flower shop, located on the quest's route, directly on our service, which the seller will give to the hero of the occasion. Of course, we plan to upgrade the service, invent new events, develop new quest templates for quest scenarios. We also plan to implement events with augmented reality (scanning and identifying objects in the quest, animated content, and much more).
PS Do not judge strictly the design of the application - this is still a prototype.
The idea of service came not by chance. Every year I puzzle over what an unusual gift to give to my relatives and how I can surprise them. It is said that the best gift - a gift made by hand. And if this gift is a quest, which is also independently invented, then thanks for the best gift for any holiday can not be avoided - this has been tested in practice.
The idea of the service is as follows: when registering, Surprise Me offers several quest scenarios for different occasions (Birthday, March 8, and many other holidays) or you can create a quest with your own script. When setting up a quest scenario using custom modules, each event can be linked to the time or place of the event. The event can be a task in the form of a puzzle or just an audio series with your favorite tracks of the hero of the occasion, which he will listen to during a trip to the subway, while sending the audio to the series can be set up while the person goes down to the subway.
')
What we do now
On February 14, we tested our idea by manually writing mobile apps with quest scenarios for the focus group. Each of the clients himself was involved in the creation of quest scenarios. Everything went well and the second half of the selected focus group was very pleased and, most importantly, pleasantly surprised by such a gift from our customers.
We are currently working on the development of a service that will help create quests and send them in any convenient way (link via SMS, letter to mail, etc.) as a mobile application. Launch platform with minimal functionality is planned at the end of the summer.
What we want to do in the future
In the future, we plan to make available the customization of the personal design of each mobile application in three simple steps. We also want to develop an affiliate network, which will allow for example to order and pay for flowers in a flower shop, located on the quest's route, directly on our service, which the seller will give to the hero of the occasion. Of course, we plan to upgrade the service, invent new events, develop new quest templates for quest scenarios. We also plan to implement events with augmented reality (scanning and identifying objects in the quest, animated content, and much more).
PS Do not judge strictly the design of the application - this is still a prototype.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/289688/
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