One recruit. A series of Puzzles. A chicken no one saw coming.
Redeem your gift and begin your espionage adventure!
đ Congratulations! Youâve Been Gifted an Adventure
Someone clearly thinks youâre clever enough to handle something more demanding than socks this year.Youâve been gifted an interactive, city-wide spy escapade you can play with friends, family, or solo, anytime, in almost any city.
Welcome to Spy Academy.
đ§ Your first field mission awaits. Try not to blow your cover⊠Or lose the chicken.
Welcome to Spy Academy, the world’s least-prepared and most over-confident spy training division.
As a freshly recruited rookie, you’ll hit the streets to solve puzzles, follow intel drops, decipher coded messages, and attempt to impress HQ with your “professionalism” (no promises).
Each location offers both easy or hard puzzles, so you can choose your difficulty. But be warned… one of them may involve tracking down a suspicious chicken. Nobody knows why. Nobody asks.
đ Watch the briefing to get properly oriented before you begin.
How to Redeem & Play (3 Simple Steps!)
We strongly recommend completing these steps on your phone, with this page open in your mobile browser.
Step 1: Download the Story City App
Youâll need the Story City app to redeem and play your adventure.
â ïž The app must be installed before moving to Step 2. Headquarters insists on this.
Step 2: Redeem Your Gift
Once the app is installed, click the redemption link below.
What happens next:
- Youâll be redirected to the Story City app and coupon pop-up
- Youâll be prompted to create an account or sign in (email or social login)
- A redemption modal will appear once youâve created your account
- Select your gifted adventure on the modal
- Apply the coupon and add it to your library
- See the video below for more info.
â Your mission is now officially active.
Step 3: Create Your Route
Now comes the fun part.
This adventure is location-based, which means you decide where the mission unfolds. Inside the app, youâll be guided through placing Spy Academy story chapters at real-world locations that fit the narrative.
Setup takes about 15 minutes, and we recommend doing this at home before heading out into the field
đ„ Watch the short walkthrough below to see how route creation works:
Youâll be choosing locations that are:
- Easy to walk between
- Public and accessible
- Suitable for observation, loitering, and suspicious pauses
- Safe to play during the day or evening, depending on your city
Yes, you can have one person set the route for your entire team.
Just mark it as a community route with a memorable name so your whole team can access it via the Select Route button.
đ Location Suggestions for This Adventure
Best played in:
Busy neighborhoods, mixed-use areas (that at a minimum have a cafe or restaurant), or downtown/entertainment districts.
Included location types youâll need are:
- Cafe/restaurant
- Some place âinterestingâ to start and end your adventure – that might include murals, landmarks, or a really cool tree.
- Generic town features like lampposts, a patch of grass, or a flight of publicly accessible stairs.
If a location doesnât quite work, the app will guide you to select alternative location types that still support the mission.
đ§ Want to Recruit More Agents?
This gift covers one player, but every good operation benefits from backup.
Youâre welcome to invite friends, family, or trusted operatives to join you. Each additional agent will need their own ticket, and they can join anytime, even last-minute, at 50 percent of the regular ticket price.
See You Out There, Adventurer!
Stay alert. Blend in. Trust no pigeons.
If you run into any issues with setup, redemption, or route creation, contact headquarters at:
đ© info@storycity.app
This message will self-destruct.
Just kidding. But still, stay sharp.
How to Play!
Step into Spy Academy, a walkable, puzzle-based secret agent mission that transforms your city into an outdoor training ground.
Follow GPS-triggered clues, solve coded puzzles, gather intel, and prove you are absolutely spy material. Or close enough.
Story City Adventures can be played anywhere alone or with friends.
To play, youâll need a mobile phone, to download the app and take a walk at your own pace.
Want to learn more? See the video below!
Safety & Accessibility
Our adventures are:
- Entirely self-paced
- Outdoors and naturally socially distanced (if you need!)
- Flexible – pause anytime
- Designed so you can choose a route that is stroller & wheelchair friendly paths
Your location is only tracked while using the app. Your privacy matters to us.
About Story City
Story City is an independent, creative-tech studio on a mission: To empower people to share and step into the world’s stories.
Our no-code platform has helped 200+ creators transform real streets into playable storyworlds filled with humor, adventure, and the occasional rogue chicken.
We have partnered with festivals, museums, cities (eg. City of Atlanta, Calgary, Melbourne UNESCO City), non-profits (eg. Human Rights Foundation), and creators around the world.
By purchasing a ticket, you help bring more independently created stories to communities like yours.
Thank you for co-creating with us to make the world more fun and connected.
Big shout out to the creators of this experience: Nick Manning (Writer/Puzzle maker), Matt Mihilewicz (Editor/Actor), Teddy Kaboom (Artist), Toast + Jam (Music & Sound).