For Saudi National Day 96, GameZone ran Alqarat, a one-day event where visitors play through game stations around a venue. They needed software that knew who visited which station, stopped people skipping stations, and gave prizes only to those who finished. And it had to work on a single busy day with no second chance.
Three steps visitors understand instantly
The landing page explains the whole event in three words: play, scan, win. Visitors register on their own phones, scan a unique QR code at each station to record progress, and unlock a prize wheel with vouchers worth up to 100 riyals once every station is complete.
- Participant registration and login on mobile
- A unique QR code at every game station
- Progress tracking across all stations
- A prize wheel that unlocks only after the full circuit
- An Arabic, mobile-first interface
Design for the venue, not the desk
People use an event app standing up, in a crowd, often with one hand. That pushed us toward large tap targets, very short screens, and a progress view that answers one question at a glance: how many stations are left?
One platform, a second brand
Azhar Al Arabia wanted a gamified activation for the same national date. Instead of a new build, we deployed the same Next.js and Laravel event platform under Azhar Al Arabia's brand. Same play, scan, win flow, a different name and look, and no separate development cycle against a fixed deadline.
For organisers the payoff is visibility: they can see each participant's progress across stations and award prizes only to people who actually completed the circuit.
