Players exploring a mapped outdoor trail at dawn

Melbourne · Location-Based Game Studio

Real trails. Real players. Games mapped to the ground beneath your boots.

SignalPlayBase turns Melbourne parklands, laneways and ranges into playable worlds — AR quests, GPS treasure hunts, and story-driven expeditions your community can actually walk.

Start a Quest Build Book a Studio Visit

What we build

Adventure games rooted in real terrain

Every build starts with a site survey and ends with a launch-ready game your players open on their own phones. No headsets to buy, no app store gatekeeping.

Player following a mapped trail quest through parkland

Flagship

Trailhead Quest Design

Custom location-based adventure games mapped to real Melbourne trails, from the Capital City Trail to the Dandenong Ranges. We script the story, plot the waypoints, and tune difficulty on-site.

4–8 week build · from A$3,900

Augmented reality expedition overlay on an outdoor reserve

Most booked

AR Field Expeditions

Augmented-reality creature hunts and geocache puzzles for parks, reserves and school grounds. Markerless AR runs in-browser, so a class of 30 can join from a single QR code in under a minute.

Half-day setup · from A$1,450

Playtesters reviewing a game build in the studio

Ongoing

Studio Playtesting Lab

Weekly playtest sessions at our Little Collins Street studio where we watch real players break your build, capture heat-map data, and hand back a prioritised fix list within 48 hours.

Weekly, Wed & Sat · A$680 per session

The crew

Designers, cartographers and field leads

A small Melbourne team that has shipped 40+ outdoor games across Victoria since 2018. We survey every location ourselves before a single line of code is written.

Priya Nair

Lead Game Designer

Ten years designing pervasive games; ran the Fitzroy Gardens night-quest series that drew 4,000 walk-ins.

Callum Reid

Field Cartographer

Maps every route on foot with survey-grade GPS so waypoints land within two metres, rain or shine.

Mei Tanaka

AR Engineer

Builds the markerless WebAR layer that keeps 30+ concurrent players smooth on mid-range phones.

Jordan Whitlock

Narrative Director

Writes the branching stories that tie a quest to the real history of the ground players are standing on.

Ana Silva

Playtest & QA Lead

Runs the Wednesday and Saturday labs and turns raw session data into the fix list your build needs.

By the numbers

Games that move people outdoors

40+

Outdoor games shipped since 2018

210km

Of Victorian trails mapped on foot

96%

Of players finish the quests we design

4.9/5

Average client rating across 63 projects

Field log

Recent builds in the wild

Scroll through moments from our latest quests across greater Melbourne.

Royal Park dawn quest — 300 players, launch weekend

Little Collins Street studio playtest lab

Good to know

Questions before we build

No. Every game we ship runs in the phone browser through a QR code or link. That means no app-store approvals, no storage prompts, and players can join within a minute of arriving at the trailhead.

We build anywhere across greater Melbourne and regional Victoria. Popular sites include Royal Park, the Capital City Trail, Yarra Bend, and the Dandenong Ranges. We survey each location on foot before quoting so the routes are safe and the GPS holds.

A Trailhead Quest Design starts at A$3,900 for a single route, while a half-day AR Field Expedition setup starts at A$1,450. Final pricing depends on the number of waypoints, narrative depth, and expected player volume. You get a fixed quote after the site survey.

Yes. Our markerless WebAR layer holds 30-plus concurrent players smoothly on mid-range phones, and we regularly run community events of several hundred. We provide field marshals and a live dashboard on request.

You bring your build to our Little Collins Street studio on a Wednesday or Saturday. We recruit real players, watch them play, capture heat-map and drop-off data, and return a prioritised fix list within 48 hours. Sessions run A$680 each.

Get in touch

Plan your next quest

Tell us about the site and the players. We reply within one business day and can usually book a survey within the week.

Phone: +61 3 9642 5327
Email: [email protected]
Studio: 54 Little Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Studio hours: Mon–Fri 9:00–17:30 · Sat 10:00–15:00 (playtest lab)