Text Message Scavenger Game Company Makes Money!
Ok, it’s not a lot ($25,000) but it suggests the five person company based in Boston is on to something. What does SCVNGR offer?
SCVNGR?s shtick is running text-message-based interactive games for corporations, associations, and non-profits, using proprietary algorithms designed by two Princeton professors to efficiently direct large numbers of game players (or museum visitors, or anyone moving in space) through a series of checkpoints.
It sounds simple, but to avoid jam ups decisions about which teams are sent where for the next clue are developed on the fly. So, each time played a team would likely follow a different route. Also noteworthy: an upcoming free version anyone can use.
- Xconomy
