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