SCVNGR is a geo-gaming platform that allows anyone to quickly and easily build any location-based mobile games, tours and interactive experiences that can be enjoyed from any mobile device.  It is a new type of interactive mobile game.

Some of the options given in the website includes on finding the scvngr’s. All you need to know is how to play a sense of adventure. If you some free time and any mobile phone then you can play from any cell phone via SMS (text messages), mobile web or through their free iPhone and Android applications. So what are you waiting for?…Find the nearest scvngr and go!

Another option is for the enterprises. The powerful web-based toolkit allows the institutions and individuals to build sophisticated, multimedia, fully-interactive mobile experiences very easily and instantly deploy them to every mobile device on any carrier. No tech skills are required. You can build yours today!

Initially the scvngr helps to think like a high-tech scavenger hunt on your mobile phone but with the options to build a far more sophisticated and interactive mobile experiences, it is much more. The Scvngrs can take many forms that ranges from the high-tech scavenger hunts that are run by the universities to introduce the students to campus-life, to a fully interactive mobile tours through the museums and the cities. Even the large-scale promotions have thousands of people who are competing for a brand – sponsored prize.

The SCVNGR’s platform scales from every scvngr up and down, to be play-able from any phone but it also takes an advantage of the existing features in any phone. So the phones that can handle the audios, streaming videos, images, interactive maps etc gets in the course of their game. An interesting part is that the basic phones that have the ability only for SMS can still play and they can also enjoy the same high-quality SCVNGR experience.
Its found that many major corporations and universities have successfully used many elaborate scavenger hunts as team building exercises and a well-designed course that can be extremely fun to use. The SCVNGR is a one young startup that is managed to tap into this niche market very successfully and it has also launched a new consumer platform that would allow anyone to build their own scavenger hunts which will work with any mobile phone. This new platform is called XPLR which is now in the private beta. XPLR is pronounced as ‘explorer’ is meant to serve as a more accessible framework to build games. Unlike the more robust SCVNGR builder, the XPLR is free. More details can be seen on the SCVNGR’s free consumer product SCVNGR XPLR and their enterprise level product the SCVNGR Builder.