Scavvy — Race and Hunt

A platform for turning any place, occasion, or group gathering into a playable social experience.

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Scavvy

A platform for turning any place, occasion, or group gathering into a playable social experience.

Race and Hunt
The Scavvy landing page — Turn the park into a race — beside the phone screen that joins the treasure hunt by QR code

Overview

Scavvy is a location-based mobile application that transforms parks and public spaces into interactive scavenger hunt experiences. By combining QR codes, real-world exploration, and gamified challenges, it encourages users to stay active, discover new places, and engage with others. This project covers the end-to-end product design process, from user journey mapping and gameplay mechanics to designing the complete mobile experience. The goal was to create an intuitive, engaging, and scalable experience that seamlessly blends digital interaction with real-world exploration.

KRA

  • A fun and engaging activity that can be played outdoor using their mobile phone ina a group.
  • Anyone above 10 yrs should find it enjoyable and easy to use

Problems identified

  • Game ideas outside in playground and park with friends is limited to kids.
  • Physical games need to carry some equipemts ouside and some cases and need a physical landscpe such as court, set up, etc.
  • Lack of ideas
  • Lot of outdoor activites involve sitting at one place
  • Outdoor games are time taking or skill required
  • Only racing is less motivating to engage in a physical activity.
  • Current board games or video games simulate the outdoor environment removing any contact with nature

Hypothesis

  • We believe that by incorporating a treasure hunt format in a competative run, will motivate more people to participate in a group activity outdoor.
  • We believe mobile phones can become tool to encourage phisical movement in fun way.
  • We believe a fun easy intreface will encourage people to use this app more often.

Role

Product Builder

June 2026- July 2026

Link to app

Stage 1

Built front end with prompt

The process of building this app start with a simple ux flow describing landing page, a easy scan on click on link interface to enter the home page. Home page consist of interface to craete new groups and once the game starts a list of tasks will be given to finish. Whoever finfishes first will win . A responsive web app with fewer elements.

The Scavvy landing page in a phone browserThe join screen with the treasure hunt QR code
1

Click on link or scan QR to enter the site

The player profile screen — name, avatar and team colour
2

As a first time user, cretae user profile

The home screen — create a playground or enter a ground code
3

Once evryone has created their profile, one of the player can create a new playground, or enter the code for previously created ground

The new playground dialog — name and location
4

Name the playground

The created playground with its QR code and four-digit join code
5

Once new playground is craeted, other players can use this QR code to entre the ground or use the code to enter the ground

The lobby, with the leader's Start the Game button
6

Only the creator of the playground, aka ‘Leader’ can start the game, untill then other players will have to wait.

The mission list — ten challenges with points and photo uploads
7

Once the leader starts the game, challeneges page with 10 challenegs are displayed. Player can click live photo to upload real time image

The Game Finished Successfully dialog
8

Once all the tasks are finished, player will click done and success message will popup

The gallery of everyone's shots, with voting unlocked
9

Players will be taken to gallery , where they can viote

Voting on a single challenge, one photo at a time
10

Each player will vote by agreeing if the image captured matches the challenge or not

The Submit All Votes screen
11

Submit the final votes

Waiting for other players, with the option to skip to results
12

Either wait for other player to finish or skip to results

The result screen — rank, score, time and the podium
13

Once all the players have voted, the final result who won will be displayed on the screen

Stage 2

UX scenarios considered

After building the first draft of the app, I ran few user testing by myself and by others. This allowed me to identify bugs and opportity areas to improve overall experience of the app and fixed them

Future scope

The collaboration feature can evolve into a centralized decision-management system that streamlines approvals, discussions, and actions while improving transparency, accountability, and decision-making efficiency across workflows

  • Introduction of mgame mode such as Race, Team Battle.
  • Run LLM to generate challenges based on user preferrences
  • Choose between voting or let Ai verify and validate the Proof of challenge.
  • Time based challenges
  • Occasion packs such as Birthdays, Team outing, Family day out.
  • Contextual challenges based on location - Park, Beach, Mall, Office.
  • Build custom challenges ( created by users)
  • Share memory after the game if over in form of video, collage
  • Public access where anyone can join the current active group
  • Introduce difficulty levels
  • Allow multiple media formats
  • Integrate social platforms

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