During the 2009 Aelaide Fringe Festival the urban game 'The Mystery of the Colonel's Ghost' turned the streets of Adelaide, Australia into a treasure hunt playground. Players were taken on a journey that transported them back to the time when Colonel Light first designed the city of Adelaide.
The Adelaide Fringe festival is an annual festival for local art, theatre and public events. This game, that uses GPS and the software of 7scenes, is about the history of Adelaide. Players had to solve puzzles that would lead them to a secret message from Colonel William Light, the man who originally designed the streetmap of the city. To discover the message, players used a paper treasuremap with instructions and navigated with their mobile phones.
The game provided a new way to introduce people with the local history. Participants could explore this city from a new perspective.
You can find the results of this game on the projectwebsite and on Flickr.