The Runner | Vancouver Mysteries provides a wide range of video games to discover in Downtown Vancouver
Vancouver Mysteries is an organization that goals to have folks traversing town whereas offering a enjoyable expertise.
They run a sequence of out of doors, indoor, and on-line video games the place folks discover Downtown Vancouver for clues to finish mysteries as quick and effectively as attainable. Folks aged 12 and up can take part with at the very least one grownup on a group. The associated fee is $35 per particular person.
“We have now three themes, so we’ve a detective sport, a spy sport, and a superhero sport,” says Tanya Bennett, proprietor of Vancouver Mysteries.
She says the superhero sport has two variations, one common model and a neater variant for youngsters.
The outside spy sport, Secret Mission: Save Your Metropolis, includes gamers making an attempt to take down a harmful group generally known as BLACKOUT in two hours or much less. The outside detective sport, Crime in Downtown, has gamers race to resolve and shut a murder case in two hours or much less.
Within the outside superhero sport, Heroes & Villains, gamers try and discover a villain’s hideout to save lots of the world in 90-minutes or much less.
“We have now a model new sport popping out this spring referred to as Ghost Patrol, which is a ghost-hunting sport,” Bennett says.
The corporate began in 2014 when her buddy from Forbidden Vancouver Strolling Excursions, an organization that phases strolling excursions and particular occasions celebrating native historical past, and Bennett bought Secret Mission and Crime in Downtown from a customer from Paris, who initially created these video games.
“We performed the video games and so they had been actually enjoyable, and so we determined to start out Vancouver Mysteries collectively and purchase these first two video games. We redesigned them, rebranded them, and began working them, and now we’ve 4 outside video games,” Bennett says.
“Since then, over time, a variety of the challenges have modified as a result of town’s at all times altering, so our video games don’t keep the identical. They alter over time.”
On account of such adjustments, these video games supply a novel option to discover and get to know Downtown Vancouver for each locals and vacationers.
“We use buildings, public artwork, sculptures, all kinds of issues, historic websites in our sport, so that you’re utilizing these issues to resolve challenges. You get immersed on this story and also you form of neglect that you simply’re perhaps within the metropolis that you simply stay in,” Bennet says.
“I’ve at all times been an enormous fan of thriller motion pictures and detective motion pictures, science fiction, and spy tales. So, for me, that is the right job.”
Bennett says the corporate has been profitable since its creation.
“We’re a top-rated attraction in Vancouver and we’ve received awards. We’ve acquired the Certificates of Excellence from TripAdvisor,” she says.
The corporate additionally has on-line video games for folks to play on Zoom. A circus-themed sport present referred to as Huge High Werewolf, a pirate-themed homicide thriller celebration referred to as Black Cranium, and a trivia sport present referred to as Tremendous Trivia are a number of the on-line choices.
The corporate additionally has a homicide thriller celebration sport, The Case of the Resort Detective, for indoor occasions out there for personal reserving.
“I feel we’re an effective way to get away from screens. If any person needs to get outdoors and have an actual hands-on journey, we’re not an app that you simply obtain. You really get actual issues that you want to use, which you will notice if you play.”
