IMANE - city adventures

SMD Studio

About this app

The city is the game.

IMANE turns the city around you into a playing field. Every adventure is a story told in chapters, and every chapter is a riddle that sends you to a real place. You get there, you look around, you work it out - and the next chapter unlocks. No board, no pieces, no screen between you and the street.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Discover - pick a story from the catalogue.
2. Solve - go to the place and crack the riddle on the spot.
3. Unlock - every solved chapter opens the next.

You play it on foot, outdoors, alone or with company. Set off when you feel like it, stop for a coffee, carry on tomorrow - your progress is kept.

YOU START FOR FREE
"The Levski Code" is a completely free adventure - a whole story, first chapter to last, at no cost. Sign in and the adventures that are already yours appear here automatically, progress and all - on your phone and in the browser.

NO TWO RIDDLES ALIKE
Ciphers and anagrams. Signs hidden at the location itself. GPS checks for when you have to actually be there. Maps you drop a pin on. Photos, audio, jigsaws, combination locks, details on facades you have never once noticed. Close to twenty different kinds of riddle - so no two adventures play the same.

THE STORIES SO FAR
• Serdika Alive - follow a Roman centurion's diary through the heart of the ancient city under your feet.
• The Levski Code - find the Apostle's lost letter among the monuments to freedom.
• Boris's Treasure - a family adventure about great-grandma Lena's magic crystal.
• The Lost Manuscript - track down the unfinished poem of the vanished poet Elena Rilska.
• The Shadow - a street artist has vanished, leaving ciphered traces across the city's murals.
• The Ghost of the Palace - the royal archive of 1944, hidden in the most visible places in the city.
• The Dead Drop - a spy thriller through the forgotten points of the Cold War.
• The Thread - an elite conspiracy woven through decades of city history. For the brave only.

Eight stories, 129 chapters.

WHAT YOU NEED
A phone with a camera and GPS, an internet connection, a charged battery and comfortable shoes. Nothing to print, nothing to carry, nothing to assemble at home.

WHO IT'S FOR
Couples who want an evening that isn't dinner and a film. Groups and teams. Families with kids - "Boris's Treasure" was written for exactly them. And for people who have lived in their city for twenty years and think they have seen it.

STUCK SOMEWHERE?
Every riddle has hints - revealed one at a time, when you need them.

SAFETY
No riddle ever asks you to enter private property, to climb, to dig or to cross where you shouldn't. Everything is in publicly accessible places. Follow the traffic rules and play with your head up - safety matters more than the riddle.

Languages: Bulgarian and English.
Questions and feedback: [e-mail]

What’s new

The city is the game.

Pick a story. Set off on foot. Read a riddle, reach the place, look around — and it answers you. Every solved chapter opens the next.

Eight stories. 129 chapters. Close to twenty kinds of riddle: ciphers, GPS, maps, photos, audio.

"The Levski Code" is completely free — a whole story, at no cost.

Get outside. The streets are hiding more than they show.