Indiana Jones and the Lost Elgin Marmaros: A Live Action UGA Indiana Jones Themed Game

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This is a game that my buddy Alli and I have been working hard to create for a Digital Media class. Our assignment was to make a pervasive game that could be played by UGA students in the city of Athens. In lieu of the new Indiana Jones film being released soon, we decided to go with an Indiana Jones themed game that could be played based on various historical landmarks that exist within the immediate downtown area of Athens. Together we spent a ton of time creating it as well as many props and puzzles that can be solved using various clues that can be found during the game. It's REALLY involved and can be played with 2 teams, a good guy team and bad guy team. The puzzles and clues are different for each team, but lead to areas that are close enough in proximity to give a feel of "cat and mouse" chase scenarios, as in the movies where the bad guys are always on the good guy's tail. Each team can spy on each other and even initiate a paper-rock-sissors style combat with the opposing team in order to slow each other down on a race to complete each of the puzzles as fast as they can and make their way to the hidden treasure before the other team does. So yes, in this game the bad guys can most assuredly win. lol

We've had a great time putting this together and we finally get a chance to put the game in action this Friday! We hope to be running two separate games of two teams a piece back-to-back. I'm really excited to see how it will turn out. I'm hoping that we get a good guy win and a bad guy win, because that would mean that we made the two team's puzzle even enough for both to have a fair chance at winning the game.