An integration event for 220 people!

The challenge in these types of events is above all logistics. Everything has to be perfectly planned so that each team has their route – without waiting for the others, without stoppages and crowded or busy places of the city. Yes – we have thought about everything, there is no cases, there is no accidents. We got it!

No less important is that the game ended for everyone at about the same time and everyone had the same difficulty of the route and the same chance of winning. You know: law, justice and so on;). In addition, each route had to go through the picturesque, full of monuments area of Krakow to combine exciting integration with the tourist sightseeing of the city.

As a result, to reconcile all these points, we worked many routes – in the end they were chosen the fifth version, and our team had to go over 250 km to test them! Admit it, it’s a nice result;) Even Endomondo congratulated us!

The next step was to prepare the script. Our quest? How to create a game that will interest almost 200 people?

We had many doubts. What scheme of the game should we adopt, so that no one is bored and each of the 6-person team had something to do? What characters should be created to make them fit, interesting and intriguing? How much time to set for each puzzle to complete the game in the time given by the client?

The script was prepared entirely in English.

We put emphasis not only on the visual part of the game, but also puzzles, which on the one hand will be a challenge and on the other will not be too difficult so that the gameplay does not become tiring;). In this type of events, the Aristotelian golden mean is important: the game is on time, it should be exciting and somewhat “on the run”, so it can’t bet on too heavy puzzles to not bore the team – on the other hand, it would be too banal to take away its character.

And we like games with roe – and not just with happy ending! In the end we proposed riddles known from the films about superagents, so that each employee could become a superhero;) Well, who would not like to be such? Exactly!

At the beginning, we proposed 6-person teams to the client – this number increases the chances that the group will have different approaches to the game (including those more distant), and yet the fun will be at the right level, and the team will have a lot of good energy. And our team was most interested in this 🙂

EscapeCity experience shows that too small teams can be a problem, as well as too large ones that interfere with good quality teambuilding. We mean an integration! 🙂

Thanks to the well-planned routes and modern technology used in the game, each team has an equal chance of winning – its time is calculated from the start click on the iPad, so the order of handing out the equipment did not matter.

Subsequent tasks and puzzles are displayed automatically as soon as you arrive at the destination, so there was no problem with waiting for the so-called Game Master, so downtime and boredom.

In addition, the equipment has a built-in GPS with the game route, which eliminates the risk of getting lost during the game, which is often the case with classic city games. Is it true that we have thought of everything? That’s right! 🙂

For our part, we have done everything (really everything!) So that users do not get bored – not only an interesting game (players play secret agents who must save Krakow from the criminal organization SpiderTech) and engaging logical tasks, but also real props or technology of augmented reality that many participants met for the first time.

To boost the action, we also decided to count the results of all teams on the iPad in real time – in this way the competition reached the level of 999,999! 😉