Rheinmaaster

Description of Rheinmaaster

RheinMaaster – a game for explorers of the Lower Rhine.
What defines your home town? - What makes your region special? – Where does the history of your district show itself? – What questions do you have about the culture, nature, buildings and names right in front of your doorstep?
Together with other players you can lift this treasure and become the „Rheinmaaster“.
Share questions or knowledge through pictures, texts and audio files. Link places and information, show the culture and history of your region.
Become a leadings Expert in one of these categories:
Buildings Technology, Landscape Plants, People Customs, Industry Traffic, Livestock Agriculture, Arts Crafts.
The Game
You can explore the whole lower rhine area, the region framed by Rhine and Maas, filled with a diverse history of differences and smiliarties in religion and languages between Holland and Germany.
RheinMaasters uniqe take on gaming combines online and offline world. It is a cooperative game, where the players share interests and support each other. Places of history, culture or tradition have to be discovered and explained. If a place has a relation to another location their content can be linked to show their smiliarities and affinities.
Join a group and the venture to explore your region and its history becomes a common goal.
Go outside and explore!
With this game you begin your journey to another land. A land that, though hidden underneath the present times, is still gleaming here and there and that tells of its history and culture. It tells of inventions, traditions and art that still shape your today.
Find connections
Globalisation has always been there: Inventions spread, traditions migrated together with people and left their trace. You can connect these traces und experience the life of earlier generations.
Found your own group
Common hobby, shared interest oder school project: Together you explore your Region and gather knowledge. As a group you advance your subject!
Discover and explore your area
Find the traces of history and culture. Ask questions about objects or places you discover.
Rank up and become an expert
Clever questions and good answers are rewarded. Get achievements and rise in your rank. The other players will value you as an expert!
Show your knowledge
Answer questions from other players and show yourself an expert. Research connections between objects and link them to information from other sources.
Vote on other players contents
Best answer? Or fake? You decide which contents have merit and with your vote you motivate your fellow players.