During this session participants will find out what quests are and how to engage local communities in creating such games. That’s a unique type of field games (so called treasure hunts), which encourage players to discover local history, culture and nature in an innovative way, using either a paper brochure or a mobile application. The central part of the game is a rhymed text containing interesting facts, directions and puzzles to be solved. At the end of the game players search for the final treasure, which is a commemorative stamp hidden in a secret place revealed by the final password.
The participants will have an opportunity to play in a short quest-meeting: a game organized around the quest stand, so that they try in practice how quests work. We are also going to present the Quests - Explorer’s Expeditions programme developing in a dynamic way in the whole country (see
www.questy.org.pl), as well as some good practices in using quests by local communities (especially NGOs) for building belonging and fostering local development.
