“Driven
by the heroic spirit of adventure, you come to understand
what Indiana Jones must have been feeling in the Temple of
Doom…” “Mayan
ruins accurate to the last glyph. Participants in the game…learn
to decipher the glyphs and also learn the story behind the
mysteries…no one has ever done that before… Chartier
has outdone himself this year.” “In
labyrinths, in mazes, you can bring the whole family through…it
definitely is an intergenerational activity…”
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MayaVentura
MAYAVENTURA © A fabulous Mayan temple has just been unearthed during excavations in Cancun, Mexico. Become an explorer and follow on the footsteps of Ka Satun, Maya hero of the first millennium! Enter the Temple of Mysteries and uncover its four fabulous worlds of Fire, Air, Water and Earth. But explorers beware! Don’t be unnerved by the numerous obstacles and traps protecting each of these worlds! The 45 to 60 minute experience unfolds inside a life-size mega-maze of adventure. Explorers scour the themed passageways in search of artefacts, 20 elements left by Ka Satun. Briefed on their mission at game start, explorers also receive a guidebook in the form of a codex. While on their journey, explorers encounter 4 Maya worlds ruled by gods and home to very peculiar animal-spirits. At the heart of each world lies a temple in which explorers discover Mayan art and architecture as well as the basics of Mayan cosmogony, astronomy, mathematics, glyphs, social order and lifestyle. In this way they may acquire a lot of knowledge on the Mayan civilisation. By decoding the frescoes and glyphs adorning the temples, explorers find the solutions to the 20 enigmas of their codex; each enigma has a direct link to one of the 20 artefacts they are searching for. In order to reach the temples, explorers must face and overcome or avoid a series of obstacles, challenges and events standing in their way. When players receive their codex at breifing time, they are also given a key containing a RFID detection chip. This microchip links each player to the Master Tracker, an electronic play-management system. The Master tracker follows each player in the maze and controls all of the interactive challenges and events. It may, for instance, open or close doors at a whim, thus personalizing a challenge to each player. Each time a player captures an artefact, the master Tracker records the event and grants a certain number of points. Thus the Master tracker gradually builds a database for each player while keeping a memory of each player’s individual journey. At the end of the adventure, The Master Tracker awaits with an interactive quiz. This quiz verifies each player's newly acquired knowledge on the Maya. The Master tracker then rewards each player with an explorer title correponding to his level of accomplishment and of acquired knowledge. Merchandising products personalized to each explorer are created from the data collected by the Master Tracker:
Players leave the venue with completely personalized and unique souvenirs of their experience. MayaVentura is one of the world's most advanced interactive entertainment attractions. It features signature RFID technology that seamlessly links each explorer with a player-and-systems management system, the Master Tracker. Paul Chartier and Line Gingras conceived this high tech great adventure attraction in 1999-2000 as a logical follow-up to their low tech SOS Labyrinthe. The mandate consisted in creating an international-level attraction both transportable and adaptable to various themes for distribution throughout the world. MayaVentura first opened its doors for summer ’99 in Montreal before being shipped in 2000 to its permanent location in La Isla Shopping Village, Cancun, Mexico.
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