We are approaching the end of the project. The site, animations and the safe are almost done! Before we want to publish our scavanger hunt to the public we wanted to test our geolocations.

We started at Koelink where our stand will be placed. Sinan enabled a dialogue of notifications, because then we could see how far away we were from the actual place.

Sinan fine tuned the locations after the test, and we are very confident that our scavanger hunt will work very well.

Below this text you can see some screen shots of how close we actually were from the Bolwerk point.

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Before we can use the VO we recorded, we need to cut and stitch all the sounds together. For every video Rene (due the animations) cut al the recorded material and stitched it together. Every recording has a different peak in sound level. I needed to level all the peaks for the videos to make it more coherent. There are always false takes or mistakes, I needed to sort these out and make it one good take.

I used premiere, because then I could align the animation better to the sound. Next to the stitching I check if every VO is correct and complete. I check the VO together with the online script.

Ruben changed the script with the new information we gathered via the city tour give by Frits. We all decided to remove the javascript game and replace it with a nice and unexpected question. This to get as much (what we thought) information about Enschede. We kind of changed the subject to be more of a guessing question so that the user is more or less surprised of the correct answer.

We finalized the script and we recorded Max Schippers’ voice and it fits our concept way better than the original voice of Ruben.

This is the finalized script + question (excluding the introduction video, that stayed the same):

Locatie 1 (Grote kerk)

Hi and welcome at our first location. I have a task for you, but before that, you have to have a bit more knowledge about this church. Let me tell you about it:

This church was built in 1200 for the first time. This church has a sundial at the right side of the building. Beneath the sundial there’s a stone with some old text, if you find every capital letter and place them after each other it reads: MCMXVIII, which stand for the year the sundial was made (1918). This place including this church was bombed 61 times during the second world war but how many times was this placed bombed by the Germans? Answer correctly and get the first dial to unlock the safe. 

Vraag : How many times, out of 61, was this place bombed by the Germans?

Answer 1: 32x , it was sometimes mistaken for a german city

Answer 2: 61x , it were alway the germans

Answer 3: 0x , it were always the allies

Locatie 2 (Brand Monument) 

Hello and welcome at our next stop: Het Brandmonument. This is a monument in the city center of Enschede. In 1862 a lot of the city was burned down. The roofs were decorated at the time with pine branches because of the visit of King Willem the third. The fire spread quickly because of the fact that 85% of the houses were made entirely out of wood. But how, according to the legend, did the fire start? If you can answer this question, you will get the next dial to unlock the safe!

Vraag: According to the legend, how did the fire start?

Answer 1: A woman was making pancakes
Answer 2: A man accidentally started fire by dropping a lit cigarette
Answer 3: It was because of an electrical malfunction in a large factory
Answer 4: A bonfire got out of control and set the entire city on fire

Location 3 (Bolwerk)

Welcome to my local pub! I  like to drink my beers with my friends here. I will tell you a little bit more about the oldest and coolest pub of enschede. After you get the answer right we will head to the next spot. The french word “boulevard” is a derivative of the dutch word bolwerk, a bolwerk is a word for a defense line. Enschede had 7 of those defense lines, Café Bolwerk being one of them. Willem Wilmink wanted to be buried below this café. Willem Wilmink was Enschede’s most famous poet. One of his poems was about his and also my favorite pub. If you complete this poem, you will get the next dial! 

(Hint: The poem is located inside the cafe somewhere)

’Begraaf mij onder ’t Bolwerk,
want al is crematie netter,
ik wil boven stappen horen
en het lied van ________’

Vraag: Complete the poem: Which word fills the blank and is a song title of Ethel Waters

Answer 1: Cheek to Cheek 

Answer 2: I got rhythm

Answer 3: Under the moon

Answer 4: Stormy Weather

Locatie 4 (3 Ganzen, Bombardement)

This was a heavily bombed place in the 2nd world war. It was totally destroyed back then. Here you can see how it could look if the bombs dropped right now. You have to look very carefully and find the letters to make a word! If you get this seven letter word correct , we can move on!

(360 Photo)

Location 5 (Van Heekplein)

Welcome at the last location! We only have one code to find, but hurry! This is where people shop now but you wouldn’t recognise it if you were here 70 years ago, it was totally bombed! I will tell you a bit more about the person this place is named after.

The square is named after Hendrik Jan van Heek, one of the founders of the Van Heek textile factory. Van heek lived in a villa just behind De grote kerk. He was an influential rich man. He was a big name in the textile scene, but besides making a lot of textile, he was also good at making a lot of other things, especially making children. If you guess how many children he had living with him at villa van heek, we can get the last dial and return to the safe!

Vraag: How many children did Van Heek have?

Answer 1: 13

Answer 2: 10

Answer 3: 4

Answer 4: 7

We had a walkthrough last Tuesday with Harry and Boris to test our installation which we had at that time. They saw how it triggered and how the user experience is.

Positive feedback were:

• It was looking good
• Experience was clear
• Interaction was clear
• Hardware was working
• To quote Harry and Boris: “The best experience walkthrough we have had up to this point”

Some improvement points were:

• How to secure the buttons
• The hole was not round so we had to cover it up nicely
• Cables could or should go behind the installation
• LED could have been in another place

Of course we are happy and making a lot of good progress. We will embrace the feedback and work on the improvement points

Together with the team we decided to participate in a city tour in Enschede. We participated to get some more information about the city that we can use for our storyline and our questions. Through this tour we hope for information that we cannot find on the Internet, some special facts that only the city guide knew.

Dennis contacted the oldest tour guide he could find, his name was Frits Heijne, he is 83 years old. Frits was a very enthusiastic man and wanted to show us everything Enschede could offer.

We told him that we want to wanted specific information about our questions. The second world war borbardement, bolwerk, old church and the van Heeksquare.

We recorded Frits while he was speaking to ensure we have all the specific information, in case we want to use any of it. Frits told us a lot of facts we did not now, he knows a lot Talking about one subject he also quickly changed topics and went on to other facts, sometimes not useable for our project.

He even went into the Bolwerk like it is his own place, grabbing things off the wall and sitting down to show us more information.

Next to all the information we received we also received al lot of pictures from Fritz that you cant find on the web, such as images from the bombardement and the big church.