Gross. Stadt. Jagd (Urban. Hunt. in english) is a real-time game that lets players run in the city to escape from a hunting car and become the last man standing during the event. The mobile app game has been developed for Mercedes-Benz Switzerland together with JEFF.

Players download an app and then play on May 29th 2015 at 8pm in Zurich. The last man (or woman) standing is expected to happen after approximately 90-150 minutes. The winner will get a real Mercedes-Benz CLA Shooting Brake car worth around 56’000 Swiss Francs.

Realisation

In only 8 weeks, the breath-taking hunting game has been developed from the ground up by Gbanga, Millform Inc..

Due to the hard real-time requirements, Gbanga, Millform Inc. had to develop the game server and power- and communication-optimized game app completely in-house. Based on our long experience in MMO games, we have chosen a robust, scalable and secure architecture and environment. More details will be published after the game has taken place.

Quick Facts

  • Virtual game, real walking
  • Game genre: tag game, last man standing, gotcha
  • Duration: 90 – 150 minutes
  • For iOS and Android
  • Spectator mode works in HTML5 browsers, too

Awards and nominations

Technology used

  • App: Unity 3D, Mapbox
  • Server: Nginx, Wildfly, Java
  • Webpage: HTML5, jQuery, Google Maps, Google Closure

Gameplay video

Video trailers

Screenshots

The live view of the game as a webpage

Player in Gross. Stadt. Jagd.

Game Over in Gross. Stadt. Jagd.

Countdown of Gross. Stadt. Jagd.

Preliminary game board boundaries