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Agents of Discovery Features
The Mission Maker
Our intuitive Mission Maker allows you to create fun and fully customizable Missions (augmented reality educational games) that get your learners interacting and engaging with your content. The Mission Maker features many resources and tools which allow you to modify your content and link learning to your location.
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Check out our collection of Field Agents! These fun avatars are the face of your Mission. You can customize any of our hundreds of existing Field Agents with accessories to make them your own, or create a brand new custom Agent for your location.
High-resolution Maps and Geofencing Tools
Customize your map and set precise boundaries around a location for your Mission. Set exact boundaries around your Challenges, enabling you to precisely link your Challenge content to the location. You can also include landmarks, trails, and any other feature you want to highlight.
Real Time Updates
Update your content through the Mission Maker and publish it instantly to the Agents of Discovery mobile App. Switch your Mission up on a regular basis to keep your content new and exciting for your users.
Play-on-site and Play-at-home Missions
Create a GPS Mission to immerse your visitors in the history and wonders of your location, OR set your Mission up with Image Recognition Triggers, which your players can scan to unlock Challenges! You can also set up a Visual Tour Mission that players at home can use to familiarize themselves with your site.
User and Game Statistics
Track your user statistics right from the Mission Maker including: total number of users, average monthly users, distance walked, player success, user distribution, player demographics and much more!
User Privileges
Control who manages and creates your content using the Mission Maker. Assign publishing rights to an individual of your choice. (You can have as many Content Creators as you wish).
Preview Mode
Activate “Preview Mode” to test your Missions with your team from anywhere in the world.
The Library
The Challenge Library allows you to select from thousands of professionally curated Challenges that have been pre-made by other users and add them to your Mission.
Pick, Place and Publish
Adding Challenges from the library is as easy as picking a Challenge that you like, placing it on your Mission map, and publishing it so that it is instantly playable in your Mission!
Challenge Types
Choose from many different educational and fun Challenge types, several of which employ augmented reality, to engage your learners. The variety of challenge types available allow you to get creative in your Mission Making and provide a diverse range of experiences to your players.
Library Tags
Search through the commons collection to find thousands of Challenges, some user generated and some developed by our team of educational experts. All Challenges have been carefully curated and tagged by our team so they are easy to find and relevant to your search terms.
Seasonal Tags
Take advantage of curated seasonal Challenges that make it easy for you to create and update seasonally themed Missions! We have collections for dozens of themes, including Earth Day, Halloween, and many more.
Private Collections
Agencies and organizations with 20 Missions or more have access to their own branded Collection, accessible exclusively to all members of that team.
Unlimited Edits
Customize any Challenge – whether you created it from scratch or imported it from the library – to match your narrative and key messages.
Access Over 330 Million Digital Images
Our Creative Commons API provides you with access to over 330 million open source digital images and sound files to help you create high quality Challenges that precisely meet your requirements.
The App
Download and play your Missions in real time on the Apple App Store or Google Play. The app has several of its own features that make exploring fun, easy and educational.
Text-to-Speech
The Agents of Discovery App offers a Text-to-Speech feature which reads out all the text on screen audibly to players. When enabled from the in-app settings, the Text-to-Speech feature automatically starts reading out the text on screen during Missions.
Play to Win
The more Missions your guests play, the more rewards they should earn! Make use of various rewards across your collection of Missions to keep players coming back for more.
No Wi-Fi Required
Download Missions to play with or without Wi-Fi, indoors or outdoors!
Multiple Languages
Missions can be played in English, Spanish, or French, with options to provide your own copy for the different translations from the Mission Maker.
Geofencing
Agencies and organizations with 20 or more Missions are able to access our geofencing services, and enables you to display your agency’s branding on the front page of the Agents of Discovery app when it is opened by a user who is on site. This feature allows you to entirely customize your players experience.
Contrast and Color Accessibility
The interface is designed to be high-contrast so visual elements are distinct and easy to identify.
Customer Support
Our Customer Support team is always happy to help you with any of your questions or requests! Among other things, your customer support representative can provide you with onboarding sessions, process artwork orders, and help create promotional materials for your Missions.
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SORP 2020 Project Excellence Award
Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals (SORP), hosting the National Outdoor Recreation Conference (NORC), awards Agents of Discovery the 2020 SORP Project Excellence Award for “Pokémon Go Style Game for Outdoor Ed”. The Project Excellence Award aims at honoring cutting-edge projects and programs that strengthen outdoor benefits to communities across the nation.
Re-imagine How K-12 Students Can Connect With Your Site
The National Association for Interpretation (NAI) hosted a webinar that featured Agents of Discovery to discuss how digital technology; including: Augmented Reality, Geo-location and Image Triggers; can provide K-12 students with the opportunity to connect with diverse, cultural, natural and historic resources of your site. Read more about this event here.
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Agents of Discovery Aims To Increase Visitors, Participation At Colorado State Parks
Colorado Parks and Wildlife partners with Agents of Discovery to attract and encourage visitors in state parks across Colorado to get outside and learn about the world around them.
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Innovative | Engaging | Relevant
Agents of Discovery (AoD) makes learning fun. We enable you to easily create your own augmented reality games (“Missions”) using our Mission Maker. We compel your users to become active and engaged in their environment.
Getting learners moving and excited to learn has never been easier!
Agents of Discovery COVID-19 Update
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, it has become increasingly important for us to maintain a connection to nature and the world around us in order to sustain our mental and physical wellbeing.
We know that parents and educators are looking for ways to continue engaging their communities in safe and creative ways. Here are some ways you can get involved…
For Educators:
Partners of Agents of Discovery are encouraged to access the Challenge Library, which contains thousands of Challenges you can use to help create your Missions. It includes a new collection dedicated to COVID-19/Viruses that educators are finding particularly helpful.
For learners at home:
Stuck at home and can’t access a park? We have online Missions and Explorer Campaigns for your kids to enjoy in your backyard, in your house, or in an open park.
Visit Smokey Bear’s cabin virtually through the Smokey Bear Mission to learn all about wildfire safety.
Find out if any locations near you are hosting on-site Missions that you can access while safely social distancing. Always be sure to follow your local health and safety guidelines.
Free Conservation Education for Learners at Home
In cooperation with Johnny Morris’ Wonders of Wildlife National Museum & Aquarium and the USDA Forest Service, we have launched a campaign called Mission Conservation. New Missions are launching every month. Details can be seen here.
“With Agents of Discovery, I’m able to get them motivated to get dressed and out the door to explore local parks to learn about wildlife, nature, and landmarks.”
Shea Curry, Shameless Mama Blog
Shea Curry, Shameless Mama Blog
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