At espoto, we have a mission: to provide game designers like you with the best possible tools to make your digital city rallies, scavenger hunts, escape games, team events or public games unforgettable. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce a feature that takes our gamification software to a whole new level – our new hint system!
Many of you have long wanted an easier way to flexibly integrate hints into games. Until now, this was only possible via workarounds using so-called secret spots.
While this worked, it became more and more complex now because the range of features grew. With our new hint system, these limitations are a thing of the past.
Why a new hint system?
Creativity, dynamism, and flexibility are key in modern city games and mobile event concepts. Hints are often a decisive factor in building excitement, supporting teams, or making puzzles appealing.
With our new hint system, you can now use hints intuitively, versatilely, and purposefully in your digital city rally, outdoor escape game or quiz event and thus precisely control how your players are guided.
Your benefits at a glance
Intuitive creation and management
Whether text, image, video, or audio – you can now quickly and easily create hints in our Serious Games Software and use them flexibly in your city games and treasure hunts without workarounds.
Maximum freedom in game design
You decide how many hints there are in your tasks and puzzles, what labels they carry, and how their content is designed. This allows you to develop your digital city rallies, team events, outdoor events, and educational games in an even more individual and varied way.
Flexible point deductions
Adjust the point deductions per hint to suit your game concept exactly. This allows you to control the level of difficulty. From tricky puzzles to easy hints.
Intelligent triggers
Decide when and how hints are offered. For example, you can set it so that players automatically have the option to request a hint after a certain number of remaining attempts to solve the task.
Simplicity for players – flexibility for you
Even though the user interface will be further refined in the future, we deliberately focused on ease of use in the first release. This allows your players to use hints at any time without interrupting the flow of the game.
Our goal remains the same: maximum flexibility for you as a game designer. Whether you’re planning a fun team event, a tricky outdoor escape game, an exciting treasure hunt, a digital city rally, or a public city crime thriller with hundreds of players, the new hint system adapts to your requirements.
Available now
The new hint system is now available in our scavenger hunt app versions 3.8.01 (iOS) and 3.8.03 (Android).
We are convinced that this feature will revolutionize your game concepts in the long term. Try it out now and discover the creative possibilities available to you! Stay tuned – espoto has many more features in store that will turn your game ideas into reality.
