Eksplor Gaming was asked to create a game experience for the Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit, which is happening starting today and running through Wednesday, October 20, 2021. The game is incorporated into the conference as a “Scavenger Hunt” game, where attendees visit locations around Northwest Arkansas that are a participating …
Phil Shellhammer, Eksplor’s Co-Founder & CEO, presented a special session this past weekend at the American Association of State & Local History (AASLH) 2021 Annual Meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas. The presentation, titled “Engaging Families thru Gamification”, provided attendees with an overview of the concepts of games and gamification incorporated …
Eksplor Gaming released their beta site designed to allow travel destinations the opportunity to build their own trivia or scavenger hunt games. This site (hq.eksplor.co) is completely free for destinations to utilize, with simple tools that make creating, editing and publishing an onsite trivia game easy for anyone. In a …
In January 2021, Eksplor hired Emma Conover as an intern through the University of Arkansas Venture Intern Program. Emma is from Wichita, KS and is a junior majoring in Marketing and Information Systems. She decided to apply for the program because of her desire to implement the skills she has …
Escape rooms were created as a way to spend quality time with family and friends while competing in an exciting and interactive game. The goal is to find clues and solve puzzles in order to make your way out of a locked room. Eksplor has taken the idea of a …
What an unexpected joy the Venture Intern Program has been for me this semester. When I say unexpected, I mean that I never fully believed that I would be chosen as an intern, nor that I would receive the opportunity to work with a company as wonderful as Eksplor Gaming. …
Arkansas Tourism partnered with Innovate Arkansas to create Ark Tank: a startup pitch competition that aims to highlight entrepreneurs who will help drive the Arkansas Economy. The competition has three phases that include an online application, submission of a “lean canvas” business model and the pitch competition. Only five finalists …
