I spent the week between the time that my lease expired and the time that I began house sitting for a month, living with my boyfriend. And as a thank-you for housing me and everything I own, I put together a treasure hunt for him. But not an out-dated map-and-shovel treasure hunt, this was a 21st century digital treasure hunt. QR codes taped to the back of paintings and masks that led to websites with scrambled pictures, fill-in-the blank puzzles and math problems which led to the location of the next clue. It was the first time I've brought together all of the different facets of web development that I've been learning. Using javascript/ Jquery, HTML, CSS for an actual real world application. I had fun making the sites I used -- but more importantly, my boyfriend loved it! It was amazing to be able to translate my hard work and learning into a smile on the face of someone I care about. I think web development is a powerful tool. A way to customize things and make them relevant, meaningful and useful to people. This scavenger hunt was good proof of concept for that...
Arthurs Quest began with a QR code on the Back of a construction-paper super hero emblem...
His first site...
Led him here...
On the back of the painting. A QR code took him to this site...
The Sunglasses had a code taped to the back of the lens...
and so on...
and so forth...
until I led him here...
To the rubicks cube with the URL to his final clue...
rubicks are a point of struggle for him...
So he just popped all the pieces off and put them back together so the letters and characters in the URL were lined up right.
then he breezed through the last page...
And straight to the prize at the end of the road,
...a custom comic book. And being as thoughtful and adorable as he is, he sent me pics of his journey.
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