Playonder

Turn any place into a team game.

Players join from their phone’s browser, follow the map and use the camera to find real landmarks. You build the route once and run it with every new group.

No app to install. One link for every player.

Cultural Quest, Choa Chu Kang
Player map with photo markers for each stop

Find the next stopThe map shows every checkpoint and where your team is.

Earlier versions of Playonder ran two large events with about 1,800 attendances. We have since tested it in Seoul, Dubai and Berkeley.

From a map pin to a finished game.

You set up the route in a web admin. Players only need a link. You watch the game unfold and reuse the route for the next group.

Step 1

Build the route

Drop checkpoints on a map, choose a mission for each one and teach the camera your landmarks from a few photos.

Step 2

Play in the browser

Teams open a link, sign in with a phone number and head out. The map shows how close they are to the next stop.

Step 3

Follow every team

See which team reached which stop, review results and run the same route again with a new group.

Missions that need the place itself.

Each checkpoint asks players to do something only possible on the spot. Camera and GPS checks mean teams have to actually be there.

Players find an architectural detail with the camera, then read the story behind it.Screens from our Dubai test edition

Made for people who bring groups together.

The same engine runs a one-off team day and a permanent city trail. What changes is the route, the story and who pays.

Event organisers and HR teams

Team days people talk about

Give every team a shared mission across a district, a park or your own campus, and reuse the route for the next group.

  • Offsites and team building
  • New-hire onboarding days
  • Client and conference events
Colleges and universities

A first week that gets students out

Help new students find their way around and meet each other, then reuse the trail every fall.

  • Orientation week trails
  • Self-guided admissions tours
  • Alumni reunion quests
Cities, counties and visitor bureaus

Show people what they walk past

Turn heritage, public art and local businesses into a trail residents and visitors can play any day.

  • Heritage and public-art trails
  • Welcome trails for new residents
  • Festival quests with sponsored stops
Schools, museums and historic sites

Field trips where students look closely

Students work in teams and have to find, frame and explain what they see.

  • Museum and site trails
  • Curriculum-linked questions
  • Venue-hosted trails for visiting classes

Built for the people who run it.

Everything below is in the admin panel today. You do not need a developer to add a stop, change a question or teach the camera a new landmark.

Route editor: checkpoints, radius and the mission for each stop
Train recognition from your own photos
Create a pose from a photo

Route editor

Place stops on the map, set how close players must get and hide the final stop until the rest are done.

Recognition you train yourself

Upload photos of a landmark, crop it and train. Extra photos help it work in different light.

Poses, views and voice

Set a pose from a photo, add voice questions with expected themes and generate narration from text.

Teams, logs and reports

See every team’s progress, export results and spot suspicious activity.

Your brand and your rules

Your name, logo and colours on every screen, with consent text for local privacy law.

In our own screen recording, adding and training a new landmark took under four minutes.

A neighbourhood trail in Singapore.

Cultural Quest: Choa Chu Kang is a heritage trail through temples, mosques and local landmarks, built with the event company HDFX. It is in preparation.

Welcome screen with consent checkboxes
Welcome and consent
Map with photo markers
Choose the next stop
Camera framing a temple gate
Frame the temple gate
Story card after the landmark is found
Unlock its story

Screens from the current build.

Open the trail

Start with one route.

A pilot is the fastest way to see how your group plays. Pricing depends on the number of stops and players; we will quote after a short call.

  1. Tell us about the place

    Where you want to play, who is coming and what the day should achieve.

  2. We build the first route with you

    We choose the stops, collect photos of the landmarks and write the missions together.

  3. Run it, then run the next one yourself

    After the first game you can edit the route and launch it again from the admin panel.

Questions organisers ask.

Do players need to install an app?

No. Playonder runs in the phone’s web browser. Players open a link, enter a phone number and join a team.

What do players need?

A smartphone with a camera, location services and mobile data. Most missions happen outdoors, where GPS works best.

How big can a game be?

From a single team to large events. The largest event run on an earlier version had about 1,500 attendances.

Can the game carry our brand?

Yes. Games show your name, logo and colours, and the welcome screen can include your own terms and consent text.

How long does setup take?

It depends on the number of stops and how much content you already have. Adding and training a new landmark takes minutes; for a first route we work with you directly.

What personal data do you collect?

Players sign in with a phone number and a team name. The consent screen is adapted to local rules, as we did for Singapore’s PDPA.

Bring your place into play.

Tell us where you want to run a game and who it is for.

Get in touch

Let’s talk

Plan your Playonder experience

Tell us about your team, place or event and we’ll help you explore the next step

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