The popular Czech application Mapy.cz has prepared a new game about the life and work of Bedřich Smetana in cooperation with students from the 1st IT Gymnasium in Satalice. Not only music fans, but also all inquisitive users will learn information about the famous Czech music composer, whose birth will be exactly 200 years on the day the game is launched, in a fun way.
"Students had access to a special version of the adminiThey created points of interest, which they then connected together to form a logical whole and respond to the player's progress.," reveals Martin Jeřábek, manager of the Mapy.cz team."
The game takes place directly on Mapy.cz and can be played from March 2 to May 12, 2024. While playing, users will try out map functions, such as searching or measuring distances. The game begins in Litomyšl, the hometown of Bedřich Smetana, from where the user, together with the young man Láďa, accompanies the famous composer to places that were important to his life. Using clues in the accompanying text, the user searches for other points of interest on the map of the Czech Republic.
"Our goal was to show the students a real project with all the bells and whistles. We organized a half-day hackathon, which was attended by a total of six student teams from different classes. The students were given a Christmas game from previous years. The output was to be a five-minute video in which they would present their idea and show the rough outline of the story. We made the videosonec was sent to Mapy.cz, and so the cooperation with the winning team began," says Markéta Fibigerová, director 1. IT Gymnasium.
The young enthusiasts prepared the marketing visuals for the promotion of the game themselves
" The students themselves provided the original illustrations and animations for social networks. At Seznam, we provided them with consultations, wrote a brief, and advised them on how to proceed. I'm thrilled that they managed to tackle a task outside the scope of their IT field. And classical music is not exactly an easy topic," says Pavla Bartošíková, brand manager at Mapy.cz.
