A total of 7 mini-games were built around the theme “geo-caching” Here are the descriptions.

Madison locations used in geo-cache games

Dinopet (Chris Blakesley) – Find essential food for your Glyptodon or risk losing it. An experiment with obtaining a persistent virtual character and sustaining it with place-based resources.

Unite (Matt Gaydos) - In unite, two teams raced to take the correct photos and return first to the starting place.

Library Fisticuffs (Ryan Martinez) – Fisticuffs launched two teams of players from different points to solve location-sensitive riddles and return to the starting place first to win.

pwned (David Gagnon) – This was an experiment with an “interactive virtual object” masked as a mysterious wifi transmitter. If the player accepts the connection, their device is hacked.

SMS Helix Riddle (David Gagnon) – This activity begins with a riddle found in a SMS message that was intercepted by the players organization. The riddle leads to a particular building on campus and is answered by typing the correct address into ARIS.

Indoctrination (Kevin Harris) – An attack is imminent and the player needs to interpret the color of a beacon to understand the enemy communication.

Saving Philip (Yoonsin Oh) – A famous statue needs to be revived! Find the statue and correctly answer the questions to save him.