Check out the full video here: http://www.adclub.org/bigorangecouch

And don’t forget to play the Ad Club Trek on SCVNGR when it launches in July!

The ALA has built an awesome trek on SCVNGR for all conference-goers to enjoy. As an extra incentive, there will be sweet prizes for top-scorers (and no, we don’t mean bookmarks and pencils).

Want to learn more? Check out the press release here!

Cheers,

The SCVNGR Team

CitySquares is teaming up with SCVNGR to make those oh-so-special local businesses in your neighborhood a little more special…and a lot more fun. CitySquares carefully selected 60 small businesses in Boston, New York and San Francisco to participate in this beta program.

By building awesome challenges at small businesses, CitySquares and SCVNGR are using in-store mobile experiences to up the fun for customers. Another big bonus of increasing customer engagement with SCVNGR (aside from all the sweet rewards for players, of course) is the buzz that it will generate for local businesses. Small, local businesses becoming a big successes…what could be better than that?

Want all the details? Check out the full press release here.

Cheers,

The SCVNGR Team

If you’re in the area hop on any Gray Line tour bus, visit awesome places throughout the city, do quick fun challenges and earn points!

Have fun playing SCVNGR in SF!

Want the long version? Full press release details available here.

Cheers,

The SCVNGRbot

The exhibit opens this Saturday so clear that calendar of yours and get over there for a sweet interactive museum experience to learn more about this great Egyptian queen!

Join the fun by downloading the free SCVNGR app at either the Android Market or Apple App Store.

If you want to do a bit more digging, check out our press release here for more details!

Cheers,
The SCVNGR Team

Brokers all across the country are building on SCVNGR to get their entire community out going places, doing challenges and earning points! It’s fun, buzz-generating and getting people into beautiful new homes!

Check out the full press release below to learn more about how game dynamics can do just about anything… even sell homes!

SCVNGR Enters Real Estate Market – Press Release

We hope you’re having fun playing SCVNGR!

As you may have noticed by now, we’ve released two awesome new apps this morning.

In fact, this release is big enough that I’m just going to pretend that we’ve never met before and re-introduce SCVNGR.

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Well, hello there! Thanks for swinging by our blag!

Let me tell you a little bit about SCVNGR:

SCVNGR is a game about going places, doing challenges and earning points, right from your mobile phone.

You visit a place and are presented with a list of challenges. One might ask you just to check-in for one point, or to take a photo for two. Another might challenge you to solve a riddle to earn three points and yet a fourth to make an origami sculpture out of your tin-foil burrito wrapper!

You pick a challenge and do it. You’ll earn points, start unlocking badges, share your activity with your friends and play on. As you visit your favorite places more and more often, you’ll unlock extra functionality like being able to add your own challenges for your friends to do!

What’s so cool about this is that it’s the next step for us in trying to build the game layer on top of the world. Now anyone can play SCVNGR, anywhere and can build it with us by adding their own challenges at their favorite spots!

So, download the iPhone and Android apps then get out there and start playing!

And as always, we want to hear your thoughts and feedback so be sure to let us know what you’re thinking by hitting us up on Facebook, Twitter or at our forums!

Have fun playing SCVNGR!

Oh, and be sure to check out our official press release here!

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Seth Priebatsch

Chief Ninja | SCVNGR

@SCVNGR

“Monk’s Mobile Quest”, a Dungeons & Dragons Online inspired scvngr commenced on Friday March 26, 2010. The game transformed players into the DDO character, Monk, who was preparing for an epic battle. Throughout the game, Monk had to make 6 stops at different locations on the PAX East floor. Each stop represented a lesson Monk had to master before the battle. The lesson came in the form of a mobile challenge: gain Ki (a powerful concentration energy) by focusing on the notes in Rock Band at the Harmonix booth,  do some recon on your battle opponent by snapping a picture with the Wizards of the Coast life-size DD beast. All of these training stages culminated in the final challenge at the Turbine booth where the players engaged in battle!

For players and exhibitors, Monk’s Mobile Quest provided a unique and rewarding experience. Even if conference attendees weren’t into Dungeons & Dragons (unlikely, we know), they were totally into the awesome prizes: 2 Nexus One phones & coveted Turbine points!

Be on the lookout for some upcoming coverage from the Boston Globe, who followed our awesome game designers for the day at PAX East!

Adventure 1: Nick at Night: The DeCordova Biennial Gallery Opening

Nick Herbold in the DeCordova Museum: proof that SCVNGR does everything that I dreamed it would do to make fine art relevant to more people. Let me explain. Nick and I are the museums team: I am the arts geek, Nick is the gaming enthusiast but both of us are all about the scvngr- and so went to the DeCordova Biennial Gallery Opening, which included what else? The launch of their very first scvngr!

This was Nick’s first contemporary art gallery opening and with a little help from a pretty fabulous scvngr, he genuinely enjoyed exploring art.  The DeCordova educators created a really clever environment-themed narrative to connect very diverse pieces, making a fantastic exhibit even more fantastic. They’ve included the scvngr as part of their initiative for families at the gallery and I think that’s a pretty great idea. When you’re 10, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by contemporary art, but not when there are clues and questions about art and polar bears! Nick’s even going back this weekend. SCVNGR WIN!

Adventure 2:  A Day of Knights

Imagine this: You’re standing the center of a great, dark castle hall. A lamp lights up, revealing an eerie display of ancient armor in a glass case. Then one-by-one, more lights reveal more ancient artifacts until the chandelier above you illuminates an entire castle hall of jousting warriors, medieval weaponry heraldry. Movie set? No, the Higgins Armory in Worcester MA and you’re working with the museum educators to build… a quest!

The ridiculously imaginative and knowledgeable staff, curators and educators at the Higgins spend the day crafting a SCVNGR adventure (guided by Merlin of course) that will guide the young  squire (you!) through the world of Knights and Honor. Will you have to joust? Will you go into battle? Will Merlin keep you as a student? Will you survive the middle ages? Is that REALLY a war helmet shaped like a conch shell? Only one thing is certain: This is an amazing scvngr and you’re just going to have to go to the Higgins to check it out yourself. SCVNGR WINS AGAIN! 2 points for SCVNGR.

Adventure 3: Battle for the Smithsonian!

There is two feet of snow outside and it is still snowing… horizontally. Washington DC is shut down. The train is shut down, every store is shut down even Starbucks is closed for the snow, but not us SCVNGR’s, for we are true adventurers! I am at the National Mall and Smithsonian museums with Kate, our ace clue shredder, building an epic Smithsonian scvngr to be released at the time of the DC Cherry Blossom Festival.

We are working with GoSmithsonian for the TRUE battle for the Smithsonian, a competition SCVNGR that will challenge players to answer clues from all 8 of the Smithsonian galleries on the mall. What do giant squids have to do with a wizard’s jacket? And how will knowing the answer to that question allow you to win some cool stuff? You are soon to find out!

So… SCVNGR WIN? Will SCVNGR prevail at the Smithsonian? Oh, you KNOW we will. Stay tuned for the official release date for the GoSmithsonian SCVNGR for your chance to put Ben Stiller to shame!

That’s all for adventures in museumland.

Signing off,

Agent K

Museums Maven, Ed Tech Extraordinaire

SCVNGR Exhibit, Museums

Well, the news is out! SCVNGR has received a $4MM investment from Google Ventures and Highland Capital.

We’re insanely excited about this and plan to use the funds to grow SCVNGR bigger, better and faster. We’ll be expanding international coverage soon (something that we know a lot of you have been waiting for), building out a better community platform for people to discover and share geogames near them and more!

Read about the financing on TechCrunch or in Mass High Tech or in BostInnovation and BostInnovation (again!) or in VentureWire (paywall) or in Venture Beat or you can just Twitter search us!

Thanks to all those who covered this really exciting step for SCVNGR!

If you have any thoughts on what we should do to make SCVNGR better, let us know! Hit us up on the forums on Facebook or on Twitter. Or just email us at support@scvngr.com.

If you want to take a gander at the official press release, check it out below.

Oh… And Happy 2010!

Cheers,

The SCVNGR Team

SCVNGR – Google Ventures Financing Press Release