Oppo Hunt update: Ugh

"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
07/06/2020 at 13:51 • Filed to: oppo rally, Oppo Hunt

After my last Oppo Hunt update a few people requested I use something other than Instagram for the game, which I was for. I was planning to use Instagram simply because it’s more convenient than an Oppo post that will inevitably be buried and need to be perpetually unburied. CobraJoe had suggested an app called GooseChase so I checked it out.

I actually wasn’t wowed at first. Mostly because of restrictive drop downs for certain things, instead of full input. Prime example: scoring for hunt items. When you want to set the score for an item you have a drop down with just four points options: 400, 500, 600, or 1,000. First off, those numbers are unnecessarily high (drop a zero ffs, it doesn’t affect things any), and second the range is just dumb.

Once I got past that though it was an excellent platform. Automated scoring! Live leaderboards! The ability to set start and end times for individual challenges so they can drop in and out mid-game! A well designed app interface! A fancy splash screen! Did I mention automated scoring? (Y’all, I’ve been doing this shit with an excel spreadsheet up until this point. It kinda sucks.) I was sold.

I spent the week making a list of checkpoints and challenges and inputting all 91 of them into GooseHunt, and setting times for the drop-in/drop-out activity challenges (these were going to be silly little things that can be done from pretty much anywhere but had to be done in a 48 hour window. Just a way to keep people engaged and offer some bonus points).

I go to the final page of setup to set the start and end times for the game and get everything officially ready to go, then I notice some grey text.

So I’d have to pay to run the game on GooseHunt. Shit. Well how much does it cost, maybe the price isn’t that much.

Double shit.

I spent Saturday googling customizable scavenger hunt apps and it was a similar story across the board. Prices varied, but all were well over $100. So, unless anyone knows of another platform that will work and can be set up on a ramen budget it looks like it’s back to Instagram and hashtags.

Speaking of, in case it does go back to being on Instagram there is now an official !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! account.

DISCUSSION (12)

DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By > Dusty Ventures
07/06/2020 at 13:59

Holy sh*t bat man ! With those prices, I’m amazed there isn’t some open source one floating around out there. Doesn’t seem like it would be that hard to make

Poor_Sh > Dusty Ventures
07/06/2020 at 14:06

Saw the IG pop up and followed. Let’s send it!

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Dusty Ventures
07/06/2020 at 14:07

That is almost extortionist pricing. What the hay? They would make much more money with a lower entry fee and high participation caps.

I appreciate the work youve put in for this. Can't wait for it to actually happen. I'm pumped.

facw > Dusty Ventures
07/06/2020 at 14:14

Thanks for the effort anyway...

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Dusty Ventures
07/06/2020 at 14:14

Back to the grom

facw > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
07/06/2020 at 14:15

I’ve got to assume they are selling to corporate team building exercises or something. This is pricey even for doing for a party activity or something. Though it probably hurts that we’d have a lot of teams.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Dusty Ventures
07/06/2020 at 14:43

Also willing to offer a prize for the winner

shop-teacher > Dusty Ventures
07/06/2020 at 15:06

Well that sucks!

MM54 > Dusty Ventures
07/06/2020 at 15:16

Bummer. That’s remarkably expensive for something which shouldn’t have a whole lot of overhead to keep running. I don’t “inst agram” but could probably figure it out for the event (it’s not something I can’t delete later, right?).

Also thanks for not saying “so it cost $1000 so it’ll be $50/team to join” or something nonsensical.

Do we know (ballpark) when-about this will be taking place? I keep forgetting about it entirely just in time for you to post an update and remind me that I’m interested. I don’t want to miss it actually happening.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Dusty Ventures
07/06/2020 at 15:47

That bus is super sketchy. I wouldn’t be anywhere near that thing.

Dusty Ventures > Future next gen S2000 owner
07/06/2020 at 22:31

The nose was well buried

Stef Schrader > Future next gen S2000 owner
07/07/2020 at 05:53

Fortunately, I am a sketchy person.