Loquiz is a new gamification tool designed to provide entertaining and interactive activities during business or team-building events.
A few years ago, we discussed the growth of Urban Gaming as one of the industry's defining trends. Loquiz is the firm we've been waiting for to provide trustworthy service in our industry. Few businesses have been able to create a stable, dependable platform that is a joy to use, despite the fact that many have sought to enter this industry.
These platforms often attract corporate guests. There is a very short attention span and very high-efficiency standards for the platform.
In this potentially disruptive sector, Loquiz has been able to produce a really intriguing proposition.
Hence, let's examine the instrument and what it can achieve for your event.
Loquiz: What is it?
Loquiz is a mobile gaming platform that allows users to construct their own treasure hunts and adventure games. Smart gadgets are used to develop and play online games.
Loquiz capitalizes on cell phones being your event's remote control. Guests feel confident in their ability to use mobile devices to check event guides, network, and now.
It has three primary tools:
- Game creation software The first section of the platform enables the creation of highly engaging games by offering preset game kinds and queries. You have control over the skip logic, difficulty level, and strategic input required to complete the game.
- Map layout. In designing the game, you may place pins on a map to make it an outside activity. A scavenger hunt in which participants use their smartphones as navigational devices to discover new clues.
- Progress evaluation You may monitor the progress of competing teams in real-time and instantly communicate with them or proclaim the winners.
Review
What may be the determining element in implementing a Loquiz-like application? Reliability. I was quite pleased by the platform's robustness.
Even in demo mode, Loquiz's design is very well-thought-out and its functionality is flawless. Such an application will be used by a high-calibre company professional attending a corporate function or team-building excursion. There is little time to waste or cope with a malfunctioning platform.
This has always been one of the greatest challenges for organizations that develop gamification applications for events. Excellent concepts, badly executed. Picking Loquiz seems prudent if you're seeking dependability.
I was quite pleased by the platform's attention to detail. Although you would often anticipate a basic polling tool or multiple-choice responses, Loquiz actively proposes game designs and offers remarkably straightforward “strategy levels” that you may add to your game. You may make it incredibly easy or extremely difficult.
You may customize the various strategy phases and what occurs when a question is answered well or incorrectly, as seen in the image below.
You will benefit from the detailed labelling of questions that allows you to filter by language if you deal with participants who speak various languages. Also, having a database of questions facilitates their distribution at future gatherings.
When doing scavenger hunts or other outdoor activities with a large group, you will need to coordinate with local authorities and get authorization. This is an issue with Loquiz and other platforms of this kind.
Also, you may want to remember that just one device in a team has complete capabilities. The gadgets of other guests are in read mode. At the time of writing, only tablets (Android and iOS) may be used to play, however, the iPhone will soon be supported.
Features
The following are the most important aspects that Loquiz will provide to your event:
Creation of questions
- Question creation that is adaptable, intuitive, and simple. Add images and videos to questions to make them interactive.
- Basic skip logic and strategy modification.
- Useful gaming principles.
Maps
- Simple pin drop or address locator
- Supports Tablets (Android and iOS)
Management
- Group cooperation
- Real-time data and monitoring of progress
- Very effective filtering and labelling
- Request language variation
- In inclement weather, quickly convert from outside to inside activities.
Who is it for?
Loquiz allows event planners, team-building specialists, and outdoor businesses to design location-based games for their clientele.
The platform is excellent for personalizing game material for increased audience engagement, and for bringing imaginative game ideas to life. Loquiz is also extensively used in education for indoor quizzes, although its primary purpose is to move students outside.
If you want to spice up your business event without depending on the typical team-building activities from 1977, then Loquiz is for you. If you are dealing with a tech-savvy crowd, you will undoubtedly infuse a healthy dose of originality into the event.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- The question process is astonishingly easy to setup
- The platform is dependable and functional.
- Teamwork is included in the standard cost.
Cons
- Only runs on iPads and Android tablets and smartphones; however, an iPhone version is now undergoing approval in the App store and should be available within a few weeks.
- Permissions may be required in certain regions (a general problem with outdoor games).
- App-only; you must download the app to play, but you may create questions through a web interface.
In Conclusion
I was deeply moved by what I learned about Loquiz. This is a great example of a startup addressing event industry concerns beyond internet registration and applications. Team building and business events often have the budget to pay for innovation (something that the long tail often struggles to offer).
The platform is well-considered and meticulously designed. And, well, it works! Typically, interacting with applications in this sector is a nightmare from a user experience standpoint. Looking forward to an iPhone-enabled version, since Loquiz is now operational.
