Mobile experience

The information players need. The actions staff need now.

The mobile app keeps the live game close without shrinking the entire admin portal onto a phone. Players see their current experience; staff get focused tools for check-in, communication, review, and intervention.

Mobile and staff tools connected to the wider HVZ Game platform
Players

Know your status and what happens next.

  • Registration progress and required documents
  • Player QR, wristband identity, faction, team, and score
  • Objectives, announcements, activity, maps, and chat
  • Profile, registered equipment, and game history
Field staff

Handle common game actions quickly.

  • Rapid information-session check-in and QR scanning
  • Player, team, objective, and activity review
  • Announcements, admin chats, reports, and photo approvals
  • Faction changes, score mediation, and access control
LIVE

System-level experience

Useful even when the app is not open.

Notifications can deliver relevant approvals, denials, announcements, and game updates. Live Activities and Apple Wallet support can keep timely player information accessible when configured for the active game.

Push notificationsLive ActivitiesWallet passLocation relevance

Product approach

Familiar patterns for an unfamiliar game.

Current state first

Faction, identity, next objective, and new communication should not be buried.

Fast recovery

Loading, refresh, offline, and server failures should explain what happened and offer a clear next action.

Proportional permissions

Players, moderators, and administrators see tools appropriate to their organization and game role.

Purposeful data use

Engagement and operational signals should help organizers improve the game without becoming surveillance.

Current direction

iOS-first, with a shared backend designed for more than one client.

The current player and staff mobile experience is being developed for iOS. Organization, game, player, communication, and activity data are modeled as shared services so future clients do not need a separate operating system or data silo.

The wider system

Mobile is one part of the operating model.

See how the app works with desktop administration, organization websites, and shared platform services.

View the full platform