This time I’m about to tell you about the way how to create a quest.

One day, on my way to Anapa it hit me that 10 days will be too much to spend time slugging on the beach and do “nothing interesting to do”, so I decided to go creative, something that’ll entertain my fellow friends, something to pep up the party. Quest was the best to go with.

Though, I didn’t know city very well, there always were the ways to learn more, starting with, for example, going sightseeing and finishing with simple getting to know someone like guide. So, I decided to delve into simple things first as to read about the city and check the list of sights and other attractive web popular places.

On the whole, I picked up some interesting places, which could easily be found by their description and pictures.

All you need is to put all that in the app, which doesn’t take much of an effort.

App

First enter the name of the quest and decorate it with an attractive photograph or picture.

Pass on “add a staging post” window and click “+” (plus sign)

When the editing window is open, first you need to create a name.

Then choose a type of staging post with description of what a participant has to do to pass first stage. For example, find a location on the map. The stage is complete as soon as the participant reached the point within 50 meters. While running the stage, they will have all chances to access the map to see the pin point on it, exactly where you have pinned it down. Or, for instance, create a type in line, (in this case you’ll have to create a riddle), where the participant would type in the correct answer.

To choose the pin point, just click corresponding button to open the map enabling to show precise location.

It’s duly amazing to have a chance to create a city quest without leaving your couch, simply, by looking at the map (opening, if necessary, street view mode)

However, it has its “but”… It’s not the fact that a sight, which you might have found or read about, or even saw with the help of Google street in the internet, still exists. This happened to us when on the very first stage post we found a pile of bricks instead of promised street pipes that were supposed to look like a musical instrument “played by the wind”. Therefore, make sure you passed through your quest yourself, in case if you really are planning to create a successful street quest.

Then, it is essential to make a description of the stage and fashion it. The more of high quality picture or video is, the better, since this is exactly what a participant will see when loading the quest.

You can upload as photograph as video content. On the third staging point I uploaded a short video clip of Arkady Severny that opened right after the stage pass thru.

And one more thing, no less important HINTS. It’s a common truth that they ARE needed.

If a participant is confused, or lost, or misunderstood something, they are the ones to rescue the situation.

Also, it is important to keep in mind the sequence of stages so a participant wouldn’t have to go back and complete the task all over again (it doesn’t make it interesting). Therefore, the route has to be one way direction, only straight. May be moving slower, but moving.

Finally, we’d got the quest that took my friends one and a half hours and brought us such a delight.

You can’t find an app in the App Store yet, but you can check the goQuests and fill in a simple form to test the app.