Virtual Scavenger Hunt
Looking to enhance employee engagement with immersive, gamified collaborative learning? Virtual scavenger hunts deliver an innovative and engaging way to foster continuous learning for your employees and build awareness on key topics such as new hire training, product education, return to office event, cultural awareness in the workplace, and more.
A Fresh, Interactive Format Designed to Engage
The virtual scavenger hunt for companies is a creative format offered by Emeraude. It stands out from others with its interactive and engaging approach. It is the perfect balance between play and learning. Our instructional designers have worked diligently to develop game mechanics that are both creative and engaging while maintaining the seriousness of the training.
Tailored to reflect your company’s unique culture and your brand identity, the interactive learning experience invites players into a virtual scavenger hunt journey. Just like the classic scavenger hunt, players must solve a series of puzzles and find clues to achieve the objective. This format not only stimulates collaboration but also encourages critical thinking.
The scavenger hunt format thrives on its adaptability, ability to weave storytelling with problem-solving, and team-oriented experiences, making it a uniquely engaging tool for digital learning in organizations. It encourages creativity and collaboration, enhancing learning outcomes while strengthening workplace relationships and boosting motivation.
Emeraude’s virtual scavenger hunt stands out from other digital learning games due to several unique features:
1. Customizable Real-World Applications
- Scavenger hunts often require learners to interact with their environment, find clues, or solve puzzles that mimic real-world challenges.
- It bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application, making it more impactful than static quizzes.
2. Focus on Exploration and Discovery
- Unlike structured gameplay or predefined storylines in many digital games, scavenger hunts encourage exploration and curiosity.
- Learners are guided to “discover” knowledge rather than being passively instructed, enhancing retention and critical thinking.
3. Team Collaboration in a Gamified Environment
- Scavenger hunts frequently involve team-based tasks, promoting collaboration and communication skills.
- Other digital games might focus on individual achievements, while scavenger hunts create a shared learning journey.
4. Dynamic and Flexible Content
- Scavenger hunts can be tailored to specific organizational needs, incorporating company values, culture, and real scenarios.
- The format allows for frequent updates, unlike traditional games that may become obsolete without extensive redevelopment.
5. Hybrid Physical-Digital Experiences
- Many scavenger hunts incorporate augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality (MR), blending physical and digital interactions.
- This hybrid model makes the experience more engaging than purely virtual or digital learning games.
6. Adaptive and Immersive Challenges
- Scavenger hunts can adapt based on the learner’s progress, providing tailored hints or escalating challenges.
- Unlike linear digital games, they create a dynamic environment where participants feel immersed in solving the puzzles.
7. Short, Impactful Engagements
- Scavenger hunts are often designed to fit into shorter timeframes, making them ideal for microlearning sessions.
- Other digital learning games may require prolonged engagement, which can deter busy professionals.
Scavenger Hunt Game Designed to Enhance User Experience
We focus on ensuring player comfort and making user experience a priority in the design of our virtual scavenger hunt. Here’s why they stand out:
- Fully customized to your brand’s DNA
- Complete ownership of the game
- Unlimited player capacity
- Fully compatible with mobile, tablet, and desktop devices
- Can be played as many times as desired
- Accessible from any browser — no downloads required
- Easily updated and enriched at any time
- Includes custom performance indicators / PowerBI integration
- API / SSO / LMS integration
- Developed in under 2 months
- Global reach with unlimited language translations
- 100% in-house development by 35 creatives and 15 developers
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Custom Features for a One-of-a-Kind Experience
Each of our scavenger hunts offers a variety of customizable features designed to enhance your team’s experience and drive engagement:
Automated Game Master
A virtual guide provides hints when players get stuck, making the game fully autonomous.
Solo & Multiplayer Modes
Players can choose to go solo or collaborate with teammates for a more interactive experience.
Integrated Video, Audio & Chat
Stay connected with video, audio, and chat options, or integrate with platforms like Teams, Zoom, and LinkedIn.
Player Progress Tracking
Players can track real-time progress, fostering collaboration and team cohesion.
Leaderboard
Players can track their ranking based on their score or completion time. It can take several forms:
- Live: Create competition and intensify the experience by allowing players to track the ranking progress in real time.
- End-of-Game: Keep the surprise and extend engagement by letting players discover the ranking only at the end.
- Global: Country, department, site – there are no limits, let your different entities compete against each other.
At the end of each session, we establish a ranking so that all players know how the other teams have performed.
Scoring
Customize point allocation based on time, correct answers, and game interactions.
Reward Points
Earn points in the game and exchange them for prizes, swag, or charitable donations.
Customizable Avatars
Players can personalize avatars to enhance their experience.
Custom Back Office
Access detailed KPIs in real-time, and integrate with PowerBI for advanced reporting.
Case study: Diptyque Marks 60 Years with a Virtual Scavenger Hunt
In honor of its 60th anniversary, Diptyque partnered with Emeraude to craft a unique digital scavenger hunt for its employees. Participants explored Paris, Venice, Kyoto, and more, discovering the brand’s history and the stories behind its products. The campaign won the Innovation Award at the Teach On Mars Mobile Learning Awards, recognizing its innovative mobile learning approach.
In this video, Delphine Achour, International Training Manager at Diptyque, shares insights on this successful project.
Discover the full story here.
Case Study: Microsoft’s Hybrid Scavenger Hunt for Team Building
For its 2,000 employees in France, Microsoft partnered with Emeraude Escape to create an engaging hybrid scavenger hunt. This unique team-building experience combined both physical and digital elements, with participants using their smartphones to solve puzzles scattered throughout the campus.The immersive design and dynamic gameplay encouraged collaboration and strengthened connections among employees.
By offering a fun, interactive challenge, the scavenger hunt successfully promoted teamwork and engagement, making it a memorable experience for all involved.
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Emeraude Escape: Tailored Solutions Through Collaboration and Innovation
Our projects are shaped by the collaboration of ten distinct expertise areas, ensuring a solution that perfectly aligns with your values and vision. From instructional designers to developers and UX/UI designers, our diverse team guarantees a tailor-made experience that meets your specific needs.
It takes from 20 days to 3 months to design a Virtual Treasure Hunt.
The budget can be requested on our contact form.
Our servers are made for up to 200,000 players simultaneously thanks to our DevOps skills.
The Virtual Treasure Hunt belongs to you, which means you can reuse it as often as you want and as long as you need, with no additional cost.
Our recommendations
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Duration
Consider creating a short but complex scavenger hunt to maximize player engagement.
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Rewards
Add rewards, badges and prizes along the way to encourage employees.
Formats
Integrate Artificial Intelligence in Serious Games for a dynamic and scalable experience
Project participants into a custom-made virtual world in metaverse.
Reproduce situations as close to reality as possible to prepare your teams.
A realistic and interactive format for players to become main characters within the plot. Will they make the right choices?
Inspired by speed dating, bring together, at random, players from your company for a series of short ice-breaking games, to help team bonding.
Inquire, question, and investigate! Cluedo mobilizes the whole team to reveal the long-awaited truth with a series of clues
Players will have to search, open chests, discover new rooms, and solve a series of puzzles in a limited time.
A physical or hybrid immersive escape game experience.