Visual product discovery game

Product Detective

Visitors hunt for your products hidden in a realistic scene, and you build that scene yourself from your own photo.

From $850 / event

Licensed per event, no contract.

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Session length
75 seconds of hunting by default (you can set 60 to 90), plus the time a visitor spends reading benefits, because the clock pauses during each reveal
Players
1 player per station
Setup time
One-time setup, then offline
Runs on
Touchscreen / Kiosk +1 more

What is Product Detective?

Product Detective is a visual discovery game for trade show booths and brand events. A visitor gets 75 seconds, which you can set between 60 and 90, to tap the products hidden in a realistic scene. Each find opens a short benefit card in your words, and the clock pauses while they read it. A hint helps anyone who is stuck, at a point cost you choose. The results screen shows an anonymous leaderboard and an optional follow-up form, where the visitor decides whether to share details. Your team builds the scene in Campaign Studio: upload a photo, draw a box around each product, write the benefits, add your branding and publish. After setup it runs on the device with no internet connection.

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Product Detective: visitors hunt for your products, hidden in a realistic scene. The clock pauses while they read each benefit. Now make it yours in Campaign Studio, with no code. Upload your own scene photo. Draw a box around each product, by touch or mouse. Add each product’s name, hint, points and benefit. Set your branding, rules and wording. Preview before anything goes live. Publish a new version. Export the campaign as a ZIP to move it to a second kiosk. Then play: your scene, your products, your brand. Scores stay anonymous, and follow-up is always the visitor’s choice. Product Detective: a visual discovery game for your booth. Works offline after setup. Fierce Guppy.

What Product Detective does for your booth

  • Teach visitors what your products do by making them find the products and read the benefit, one by one
  • Rebuild the game around a new scene and product range yourself, by uploading a photo and drawing the products, without a developer
  • Collect follow-up interest that visitors chose to share, kept apart from the game score and exported with its consent
  • Keep the booth running through a poor connection, because the game works offline once it is set up

How Product Detective works at your booth

  1. 1

    The start screen shows your scene, the round length and the number of products to find, and a visitor taps anywhere to open the case.

  2. 2

    A quick mission card explains the rules, and the visitor taps I'm ready for a 3-2-1-GO countdown before the clock starts.

  3. 3

    The visitor taps the products they spot in the scene, or asks for a hint, while the timer ring counts down.

  4. 4

    Each find opens a benefit card in your words with the points earned, and the clock pauses until the visitor continues.

  5. 5

    The results screen shows the score, a detective rank and stars, the products found, an anonymous leaderboard and your call to action.

  6. 6

    The visitor can choose follow-up topics and a demo request, and the game resets for the next player.

Product Detective features and branding options

Key features

  • A timed hunt of 60 to 90 seconds (75 by default) in a realistic scene, with every product scored once and no penalty for a wrong tap
  • The clock pauses during every benefit reveal, including the last one, so visitors read at their own pace
  • Hints that highlight the next product they have not found, from a number you set, with a point cost you choose (two hints at 25 points each by default)
  • Two starter scenes included: The connected factory and Inside the digital backbone, each with six products
  • Campaign Studio: upload your own scene photo, draw product hotspots with touch or a mouse, and move, resize or type exact coordinates for each one
  • Per-product name, category, hint, points, benefit text, optional image and optional HTTPS link
  • Checks before you publish: hotspots must stay inside the image, be large enough to tap and not overlap heavily
  • Draft preview that records no scores or leads, and publishing that creates a new numbered version; a round already in progress keeps the version it started with
  • Campaign ZIP export and import, with the images included, to copy a campaign to a second kiosk; imports arrive as drafts until you publish
  • An anonymous leaderboard with "Detective" aliases, scoped to the campaign and version
  • Optional follow-up form after the round, with consent, product-interest choices and a demo request that start unchecked and are independent; a visitor's score never counts as buying intent
  • Encrypted lead storage on the device, with a retention period (30 days by default), and an event export ZIP with a consent-aware lead CSV, sessions, anonymous scores and analytics without personal details
  • Works offline after setup: the app and the starter scenes are cached on the device, and uploaded scenes and event data stay in the browser's storage
  • Operator PIN that protects the Campaign Studio and settings from accidental changes at the booth
  • Keyboard access: Tab to a product and press Enter or Space to discover it, with a visible focus outline as an alternative to the visual search
  • Sound with mute and volume, a reduced-motion setting that the game follows, and sounds that are built in rather than loaded from the internet
  • A start screen that returns by itself after the results, and recovery that records an abandoned round without a leaderboard score and discards partial personal details

What you can customize

  • Your own scene: a PNG, JPEG or WebP photo up to 5 MB and 4096 pixels on its longest edge
  • From 1 to 20 products per scene, each drawn directly over the photo
  • Each product's name, category, hint, points, benefit, picture and link
  • Round length from 60 to 90 seconds, the number of hints, the hint point cost and the seconds before the game resets
  • Your logo, a primary colour, an accent colour and a choice of three fonts (system, serif or mono)
  • The start button, the briefing, the results headline and the call-to-action text and link
  • Every line of wording on every screen, in a wording editor, so one campaign can carry a translated interface
  • Follow-up form: off, optional or required, with your own consent wording, and whether the leaderboard is shown
  • Product-interest choices that follow the products in your scene
  • Sound on or off with volume, an optional on-screen keyboard for the follow-up form and kiosk settings
  • Several campaigns in one workspace, duplicated from a starter or from your own, and moved between devices as ZIP files

Product Detective specs and setup requirements

Product Detective specifications
FormatVisual product discovery game
Runs onTouchscreen / Kiosk, Laptop / Desktop
HardwareA touchscreen kiosk display (layouts are checked at 1920x1080, 1366x768 and 1024x768 landscape, and 390x844 portrait), Or a laptop or desktop computer, A current web browser, with the built folder served from HTTPS or the bundled local server (which needs Node.js 22 or later)
InputTouch input, Mouse or trackpad, Keyboard (Tab to a product, Enter or Space to discover it), Optional on-screen keyboard for the follow-up form
Setup timeOne-time setup before the event: activate the licence while online, publish your campaign and wait for the Ready for offline play message, then reload and test with the network off
InternetNeeded once, to install and activate the licence and to let the app cache itself. After the Ready for offline play message the game, Campaign Studio, lead storage and exports run on the device without a connection, until the licence's signed expiry or offline window ends. Reconnect before then.
Session length75 seconds of hunting by default (you can set 60 to 90), plus the time a visitor spends reading benefits, because the clock pauses during each reveal
Players1 player per station
ThroughputReturns to the start screen by itself 35 seconds after the results appear (you can set 5 to 300 seconds)
Booth sizes10x10, 10x20, Island, Indoor Event
PriceFrom $850 per event

What you get

  • Web build: a static folder served from HTTPS or the bundled local server, and played full screen in a current browser
  • Campaign Studio with two starter scenes, The connected factory and Inside the digital backbone
  • Operator settings for leads and consent, the leaderboard, kiosk behaviour, sound, diagnostics, event export and the licence
  • Event export ZIP with a consent-aware lead CSV, sessions, anonymous scores and analytics
  • Campaign ZIP export and import
  • Licence key to activate the build for your event

Where Product Detective works best

  • Product launches where visitors should learn a range of products by finding them
  • Trade show booths that want a quick, readable game that teaches one benefit per product
  • Showrooms and demo rooms: upload a photo of your own space and mark the products in it
  • Teams that run several campaigns across events and want to swap scenes without a developer

Product Detective pricing

Per-event pricing. Published, not quoted. Licensed per event, with no contract and no annual commitment. Move up to a Season Pass whenever running a full calendar makes more sense than paying show by show.

Play

$850 / event

Get a branded game into your booth and start capturing leads today.

  • One game, one event
  • Your logo and brand colours
  • Standard lead capture form
  • Runs fully offline, leads stored locally
  • CSV export of every lead
  • Live in minutes
Most popular

Brand

$2,450 / event

Turn the game into a campaign that qualifies leads and keeps a crowd at your booth.

  • Everything in Play
  • Custom lead form fields to qualify every player
  • Live leaderboard for the big screen
  • Prize logic to reward winners and bring players back
  • Your copy, sound and attract loop
  • Automatic recap email to every player

Studio

$6,500 / event

A game that looks, plays and tells your story as if it were built for you.

  • Everything in Brand
  • Full art reskin to your brand guidelines
  • Gameplay customised to your product story
  • Multi-station and multiplayer setup
  • Live lead sync to your CRM via API

Season Pass

$9,600 / year

For teams running a full event calendar. Breaks even at four events.

  • Unlimited events for twelve months
  • Any three games from the library
  • Swap games between shows
  • All Brand tier features included
  • One Studio-level reskin included each year

Custom build

From $12,000

A game built from scratch around your product, your mechanic, your story.

  • Original concept and gameplay design
  • Built by the studio that ships commercial games
  • You own the finished experience
  • Reusable across your whole event calendar

Product Detective FAQ

Can we use our own photo as the scene?

Yes. In Campaign Studio, upload a PNG, JPEG or WebP image up to 5 MB and 4096 pixels on its longest edge, then draw a box around each product. Studio checks that every box is inside the image, large enough to tap and not heavily overlapping another before you can publish.

How do we mark the products in the scene?

With the Draw product tool, drag a box over each product with touch or a mouse, then move or resize it, or type exact percentage coordinates. For each product you add a name, category, hint, points and the benefit text a visitor reads on discovery. You can add from 1 to 20 products per scene.

Does the clock keep running while visitors read a benefit?

No. The clock pauses when a benefit card opens, including the last one, and restarts when the visitor taps Keep hunting. Time spent reading is not counted against them.

How do hints work, and do they cost points?

A hint highlights the next product the visitor has not found. By default each round has two hints, and a hinted find earns 25 fewer points. You set the number of hints and the point cost. A wrong tap has no penalty.

Does Product Detective capture leads?

Optionally. After the round, a visitor can choose the products they want to hear about, ask for a demo and agree to share their details with your team. The product-interest choices and the demo request are separate and start unchecked, and the score has no part in them. You can turn the form off, make it optional or make it required. There is no CRM integration: you export the leads from the device.

Where is visitor data stored, and how do we get it out?

On the booth device only. Contact details are stored encrypted, and the operator unlocks them with a passphrase. A retention period applies, 30 days by default. At the event's close, the operator downloads an event export ZIP with a consent-aware lead CSV, sessions, anonymous scores and analytics that hold no names or emails. Export before clearing the browser's data or moving to another device.

Does it work without internet at the venue?

Yes, once set up. While online, open the built app, activate the licence, publish your campaign and wait for the Ready for offline play message, then reload and test with the network turned off before you travel. Serve the app from HTTPS or the bundled local server, never from a file on disk. The licence has a signed expiry and offline window, so reconnect before it ends.

Can we move a campaign to a second kiosk?

Yes. Export the campaign from Campaign Studio as a ZIP, which includes the scene image and any product pictures, and import it on the other device. It arrives as a draft, and you publish it there. Each kiosk keeps its own scores and leads, so export each one's event data separately.

Which devices and browsers does it run on?

Product Detective is a web game for touchscreen kiosks and laptops, played full screen in a current browser. Its layouts are checked at 1920x1080, 1366x768 and 1024x768 in landscape and at 390x844 in portrait. Native Windows and macOS apps are not part of this version. Rehearse touch and kiosk settings on the real event device.

How quickly can we launch this at an event?

Most teams launch in days, not weeks. Setup is designed to be straightforward for event staff.

Can this be customized to our brand?

Yes. You can start with a ready format and add your visual identity, messaging, and preferred calls-to-action.

Do we need technical staff at the booth?

No. The experience is built for non-technical teams with a clear operator flow and simple launch process.

What happens after the event?

You receive structured lead data and can review engagement outcomes to plan the next event iteration.

What hardware does Product Detective need?

Product Detective is designed for A touchscreen kiosk display (layouts are checked at 1920x1080, 1366x768 and 1024x768 landscape, and 390x844 portrait), Or a laptop or desktop computer, A current web browser, with the built folder served from HTTPS or the bundled local server (which needs Node.js 22 or later). Supported inputs include Touch input, Mouse or trackpad, Keyboard (Tab to a product, Enter or Space to discover it), Optional on-screen keyboard for the follow-up form.

Does Product Detective work without venue Wi-Fi?

Needed once, to install and activate the licence and to let the app cache itself. After the Ready for offline play message the game, Campaign Studio, lead storage and exports run on the device without a connection, until the licence's signed expiry or offline window ends. Reconnect before then.

Bring Product Detective to your next trade show

From $850 per event with your branding and lead capture built in. Want something different? We adapt visuals, prize logic and lead flow, or build a custom game around your product.