Designer lets you create your own interactive adventures with trails, instructions, and missions.
This guide shows you how to make and publish your trek
To start, sign into Trekker from a menu bar at the top of the screen. If you don't have an account then take a couple of minutes to create one with your email address.
You'll see that you may "Draw" or "Tasks". Later we'll talk about the tasks. For now, we'll explain how you can draw your trail. Sign In
To start, sign into Trekker from a menu bar at the top of the screen. If you don't have an account then take a couple of minutes to create one with your email address.
Getting Started
Begin by pressing on your avatar from the map screen then press any where on the map to tell Trekker where you'll begin your trek. If you don't get the address exactly right then you'll be able to change it later.
Enter the title of your trek. It will need to be the only trek with that phrase so it may take a few tries to make it unique.
Your Trail
At the start, you'll see a map pin placed on the map where you created your trek. That point is the starting address of your trek.
Drawing Your Trail
Press on that map pin to see the options
As soon as you select "Draw", you'll be taken back to the map with three new options.
Begin drawing by pressing anywhere on the map to plot your trail. Don't worry if you press on the wrong points because you can change them later by dragging them to the right position.
There is a "Stop" drawing button that will stop you from plotting more points. Later, you may resume plotting by pressing on any yellow or red pins.
The third option appears when your phone or laptop has picked up your location. This option, "Plot My Point" will draw a map point where ever you are located, making it easy to create your trail while walking, flying, sailing, or being a passenger
Before long, you'll have drawn your trail by plotting the points. Each plot will have one of these pins: a red (starting or task) pin, or a yellow plot pin. The starting and task pins indicate that trekker will be informed or given a task to do. The yellow plot pins appear for you to draw the map, the yellow do not appear when you or others play your trek.
Press and drag any of those pins to adjust the location. You may assign tasks to any pin, all pins with tasks are red.
Pin Locations
The red pins and the yellow plot pins may be assigned tasks. Tasks are given to the trekkers when they reach those locations.
Try it out, press on a yellow plot pin to see your options.
See that you can "Add Task" which means that you can give the trekkers some instructions or missions at this location. Go ahead, add a task.
The task should be an instruction or a challenge task (if it's a mission). Challenge task example, "How many columns are at the front of the library?"
Adding A Task
Tasks are simple instructions or types of missions. Instructions are given to direct or inform trekker that something is at the location; you are not requesting a result when you, "Give Instructions". Missions request the trekkers to perform a task such as a Single Line Solution, Choose An Answer, Answer With A Clue, Take A Photo. Experiment with missions to see what you can do.
Other aspects of tasks, include; adding an Image (typically of the location). Optionally Interesting Facts and / or a YouTube Link that could be viewed when the trekker completes the mission.
Bonus Tasks
Bonus Tasks are missions that may be completed at anytime during the trek. Bonus tasks are not assigned to any location and are optionally completed (unless you make bonuses mandatory in "Introduction / Settings" (discussed shortly).
Complete Your Trail and Tasks
Go ahead and design. Play with the options, experiment and think about how the trekkers will experience the fun. Once you're reasonably happy with the trail then move onto "Edit Settings."
Edit Settings
The settings are for your overall trek. We'll give a detailed explanation of the "Introduction / Settings" and the "Publish" sections. Briefly the other options are to: "Test" (play the trek yourself), "Analytics" (statistics about usage), "Copy" (Make a mirror copy of your trek) or "Deactivate" (Making the trek disappear forever).
Introduction / Settings
This section describes your trek, sell your adventure by uploading a nice image and pitching a good introduction. Inform people about the primary travel methods, the difficulty rating, the category, equipment needed. Assign a badge that will be earned when the trek is completed successfully.
Bonus Missions
Bonus missions may be completed at any time during the trek. The default option is that the trekkers do not have to complete the bonuses because they give extra points for the extra effort. However, you may insist that all bonus missions are completed because they are important to your trek. An example would be a scavenger hunt where the trekkers much search for all of the hidden objects in a park.
Publish Your Trek
When you have completed, and are satisfied, with your trek, you may publish it. Prior to publishing some conditions must be completed. Trekker will give you a little help by testing for technical errors. You must decide whether your trek will be a "Private Listing" only viewed by people who know the link (use Share when testing the trek) or a "Public Listing" which will be available to the world to play.Incredibly important: you must agree to the Trekker Terms of Use. Penalties may apply for breaches to those terms.
Tickets Explained
We understand that you may not have funds to pay for your trek so we've created a ticket system to help you get up and running. Every newly created trek receives 30 free plays by anyone (this is our gift to you). However, technology costs require authors to pay for tickets if more than 30 people play their treks.Selling Your Trek
Do you want to raise funds from your efforts? If so, then you may set a price for each play of your trek. You set your price and Trekker will process each payment at the set transaction fee, see the Pricing page for more information.Trekker does not contain, or process, any financial transactions; all financial accounts and records are manage through a Stripe account that you establish and link to Trekker. Follow the prompts to set up your Stripe account.
