We at Story City are excited to announce the launch of four unique story adventures across five different locations in Atlanta in Partnership with Atlanta’s Parks and Recreation Department.
Download the Free Story City App HERE and start your adventure! Learn more about what Atlanta’s Parks and Recreation Department are doing below!
While exploring parks and downtown we invite you step into the shoes of someone solving a mystery, surviving a magical cafe or saving the City of Atlanta from an interdimensional incursion. Each story highlights significant park and downtown features encouraging you to visit, all the while gamifying the experience for the tech generation.
We recommend using Tips from your Barista to find a local coffee house to enhance your morning cup of joe or give you something to do while waiting for that really cool networking opportunity to show up. Or may we recommend grabbing a couple of new conference friends before or between sessions and take a 45 minute adventure with one of the below stories through a park or face the challenge of the Omicron while exploring Atlanta’s Downtown highlights?
You can find three of these five experiences downtown, one just to the west in Historic Vine City and one located in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park Botanical Garden just east of downtown.
These experiences are FREE for conference attendees to enjoy as Atlanta’s gift to you!
Download the Story City App HERE and start your adventure!
These stories were selected by the City of Atlanta Parks and Recreation Department to quickly activate your experience in their city, and to innovatively showcase their excitement as we embark on a six month custom activation with them for their after school programs.
Story City has published 100+ custom interactive stories across 14+ cities, worked with over 30 organizations, trained 600+ creatives, and employed 150+ local creators to create stories that have driven an average of 30,000 users through a city, encouraged an 87% completion rate, 40% repeat visitors, increased time on site by 60+ minutes, seen 5x the media exposure of regular events, and ultimately changed the perception of cities and parks from monotonous into a destination to explore.
We work with city departments in two ways: a) drop pre-made stories like the below OR b) we build out custom activations paying local creators from your community to do so. Atlanta chose to do both. If you are interested in exploring what this could look like in your city parks, please do not hesitate to connect with our Head of Community Activation, Tim Souza.
Now on with your adventure…
Looking to Explore a Park?
Agent 82 – Live in two locations!
Adventure Description: You are Atlanta’s last hope against alien invasion. Hidden under the park is a secret missile facility. Help decipher the launch codes and save Atlanta! Hurry, Agent 82, we’re depending on you! This interactive adventure will take you on a puzzle filled trail through either Rodney Cook Sr. Park or Centennial Olympic Park. There are two difficulty levels: one designed for junior adventures, the other with more complex riddles and a storyline designed for adults or teens, making this walk ideal for families.
Where are these two stories located: Once in the app, you will find this adventure playable in either Atlanta’s Premier Rodney Cook Sr. Park just west of the conference center or in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park just to the east of the conference center.
Recommended Play: We recommend that you grab a couple people from the conference who would love a walk through the park and make it fun by teaming up to save the world. You are at a Parks and Recreation conference after all.
Meet The Sculptures!
Adventure Description: Greetings, adventurers! I am the Earth Goddess, and I exist in beautiful Piedmont Park. I am in each tree and flower and blade of grass, in the air that you breathe and the earth underfoot. But I have become depleted, my life force is fading, and I need your help. I need you to use your creative powers to bring the art in Piedmont Park to life!
Where is this story located: Find your way to Piedmont Park east of downtown.
Recommended Play: We recommend going on this adventure with at least two people, as there may be a bit of role playing involved. Also please note that there is a portion of this experience that is paid to maintain the botanical gardens within the park itself.
Photo Credits: Eric Yarnell
CC License
Looking to Explore a Downtown?
The Omicron
Adventure Description: You are one of the Chosen, on a quest to stop an interdimensional invasion by collecting rare and dangerous artifacts – Omicrons! Will you risk your life by going for the stronger, harder to reach omicrons? Or will you opt for the safer option and possibly risk the safety of the world? Will your choices make you THE Chosen One? Or will Atlanta, and the world, fall to the affected?
Which of the 5 different endings will you discover in this Choose Your Adventure?
Where is this story located: Across Downtown Atlanta, starting at the post office.
Recommended Play: We recommend going on this adventure with at least two people, as there may be a bit of role playing involved, and a chance to show of some fun accents!
Looking for a coffeehouse mystery?
Tips From Your Barista
Adventure Description: When a mysterious coffee shop suddenly replaces your favorite cafe, you discover a magical and mysterious world where tips from your friendly neighborhood barista may be the only thing between you, and survival.
Where is this story located: In five different coffee shops across downtown Atlanta!
Recommended Play: This story is meant to help locals and visitors alike explore the coffee shops of Atlanta in a new and unique way. Over the course of a week or all in one day – Depending on how often you take your caffeine!
Each of these Catalog Stories above started out as custom activations that became very popular in another city, so much so we thought we would share them with you as examples of the many ways we work with artists to tell stories in location. If you are interested in exploring what this could look like in your city and parks or are interested in learning more about how we work with Parks and Recreation, please do not hesitate to connect with our Head of Community Activation, Tim Souza. He can walk you through how we have structured Story City to be a company with the capacity to work with any park, no matter their style, goals or budgets.
We hope you enjoy these adventures and your time in Atlanta this week!
Happy exploring!
~ Story City Team
