About this app

A competitive GPS treasure hunt games app. Join the Locatify Education program to make treasure hunt games for students. It is a sophisticated treasure hunt to be played out in the fields with GPS.

Children from the age of six to adults do enjoy the games and the learning experience they have to offer.

The games are competitive with maps, compass, treasure locations and scoreboard. Treasure can contain clues, challenges, audio or video and images.

Please note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Learn by doing is the purpose of GoldHunt treasure hunt games. It’s an innovative educational tool for teaching through play and fun outdoors. The game enables students at different educational levels to actively participate in learning where education is entwined with games, providing enjoyment, motivation, gratification, creativity and social interaction. The game utilizes natural surroundings, which provide extraordinary and powerful contexts for learning.

In order to create and publish a game in Locatify Creator CMS visit www.locatfy.com. GoldHunt Education app is part of the Locatify Education program along with the GoldWorm book make app.

GoldHunt Education for schools:
The app can be used in context with various curriculums like: geology, social sciences, humanities, orientation, sports and languages. It all depends on how the content is made to suite the players.

How to play a game:
1. Select a game from the map or the list in the app
2. Press "Join Game", only one can start the game
3. Enter your team's name
4. Share the invitation code with others.
5. The other teams enter the code in "Redeem Invitation" at the front page
6. It is time to play when all the teems have signed in.
7. The one who invited the others starts the game
8. Find treasures and solve challenges
9. Your team is the blue dot on the map, the others are green
10. Check the scoreboard to see the results of the game

Offline content:
After the game is downloaded to the device and teams have joined it, no Internet connection is required. However, to see locations of other teams on the map and a real-time score they will need Internet connection. If they play offline the scores will enter the scoreboard when they connect to the Internet again.

Observe the game:
The games can be observed at the Locatify Observer. Enter the invitation code and see where the players are located at the moment and how many score they have collected.

Visit our website for more information and find out how easy it is to make your own treasure hunt games.

Please note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

New features

Removed unnecessary app privileges and minor fixes

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.