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1. The Basics

1. What is 7scenes?
2. What does the name 7scenes mean?
3. So what kind of tools does 7scenes have for me?
4. What are a scene, a place and a trace?
5. Who is 7scenes for?
6. How does 7scenes go about copyrights?
7. How is my privacy protected in 7scenes?

1. What is 7scenes?

   7scenes is a mobile and online platform that makes it easy to create, play and share GPS based games and tours.

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2. What does the name 7scenes mean?

   7scenes was inspired by a quote from William Shakespeare As You Like It: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players". We like the approach of the world as a stage. We hope location-based experiences, that we name scenes, can have all of the emotion and drama that scenes in a play have.

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3. So what kind of tools does 7scenes have?

   7scenes provides all of the services organisations need to produce location-based projects:

   • an authoring environment for creating and publishing scenes.
   • mobile software for anyone to discover and play scenes with.
   • an online environment to promote your project, scenes and all of experiences of your users.

   For more info please check the 'get-7scenes' section.

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4. What are a scene, a place and a trace?

   Three terms you'll come across a lot in 7scenes are scene, place and trace - so here's a short explanation:

   • A scene is a location-based experience - a game or a tour. A scene is a specific collection of rich content, challenges and game elements linked to locations and related to each other through chronology or (game) rules.
   • A place in 7scenes is a location linked with rich content. We have different types of places for you to use: the photo place, sound place, video place, note place, task place and the (game) reward place.
   • A trace is what you leave behind when you play a scene: a GPS trail together with all the interaction you had along the way, places you encountered, messages you sent, photos you uploaded and more.

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5. Who is 7scenes for?

   7scenes is for all organisations in search of a platform that enables them to publish and have their audience experience location-based content in a new way. Think of museums, archives, advertising companies, festival and conference organizers, tourist boards, and much more..

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6. How does 7scenes go about copyrights?

   7scenes does not make any claim on copyrights whatsoever. If any media you use in 7scenes already has copyrights, then these rights stay as they are. The media users capture and upload is automatically given the Creative Commons licens By-SA, which allows commercial uses of your work and modifications as long others share alike.

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7. How is privacy protected in 7scenes?

   7scenes does not give any specific user data to third parties, but reserves the right to lend its data in anonymized form for research purposes.

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