THE IDEA

Sher’Lyon Holmes got out of a brainstorming on how we could improve the travelling experience of family thanks to mobile app. We came to the conclusion that it is difficult to keep children entertained while visiting a new city, so we wanted to create a game to respond to this difficulty. We also know that investigation is a scenario that a lot of people like and we thought it would be a good idea to integrate this kind of story in our game.


How did it all started?


We all have experienced a family trip and it is sometimes hard to keep everyone’s attention, especially when there are young children involved. The idea came to create a game which could bring closer family members and educate the entire family about the culture and history around them. By downloading our free app, families seeking to discover Lyon and learn new things together will be able to do it easily and in a fun way.

Who is it for?


We are targeting family traveling in Lyon who want to improve their travelling experience. So we mainly choose to target parents, so mother and father. Specifically tourists (foreigner and french) but also locals that want to discover their city again from an new perspective at the occasion of a weekend stroll, for example.




How does it work?


When they subscribe, the parent can choose different stories, all based on Canut’s Revolt history but with different scenario and different duration. It would take around 2-3 hours to play the basic game but there are shorter and longer story depending of the age of the children and how long you want to play the game. Once a story has been chosen, we propose a guide composed of an investigation that the family has to solve. Someone has been robbed and each enigma will lead the family to a place we have chosen in Lyon to discover not only the story behind the rubbery, but also the city. The parent’s phone is located on an interactive map that show where the family is currently, and where are the historical positions around then. They just need to reach that place and discover it to find some clues (on the building, written on a sign..) to solve the enigma the app ask you to solve (giving you a letter of the culprit’s name each enigma solved). By finding the culprit, the family will discover the city and its history during the XIXth century - century of the rise of Lyon especially thanks to its industry - at the same time.


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How to use the app ?


  1. Sign up into the mobile app and provide basic infos: Name, Age, email and allow the app to access your localisation.
  2. Discover the story where the investigation takes place and discover more about Lyon’s history.
  3. Click on stars icone on the map to see where to go.
  4. Go to the places you can find clues to solve enigmas about Lyon’s culture.
  5. Win rewards solving enigmas as secret places, or good restaurant address. Every enigmas solved will also allow you to discover one letter of the culprit’s name.
  6. Solve every enigma and discover every letter to finally find the full name of the culprit.
  7. Surprises await you at the end of the game !!




What do we need now ?

In order to create and launch the concept we still need few steps. This is exactly where we need your competencies!

We already have created the design but we need to improve it. We could for example find more historical picture to immerse the users into our world. Link What did Lyon look like in the XIXth century ?

For the development we will need a developer since we don't have the necessary knowledge in Java-Script in particular. So we would like to hire someone to help us with this task. For example we need to master some tools to create our interactive map