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You are invited to the Open Beta of FRANKLIN’S SECRET CITY: A Smartphone App-Adventure for two players aged 10-100

JUNE 8-SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You and your partner are the newest recruits to The New Promethean Society, a secret society created to protect some of Benjamin Franklin’s more clandestine – and dangerous – discoveries. Your task: check out some odd spikes in bioether, a mysterious force that Franklin discovered back in the 1780s, a force that runs through everything and seems to hold the key to a number of strange powers over space and time. It’s probably nothing — but sometimes these missions, to make sure bioether doesn’t fall into the wrong hands, can lead you down a twisting path of puzzles and oddities embedded in Philadelphia’s historical relics, as the Society confronts shadowy forces seeking to use bioether for their own ends.

When and Where to Go: 

Daylight hours, starting at Signer’s Garden, Southeast corner of 5th and Chestnut, Philadelphia.

System Requirements:

BOTH players need either a iPhone 6S or newer, running iOS 13 or higher or Android 8 or later and headphones.

How to get the app:

Click on this link to sign up. or copy this address into your browser: https://forms.gle/S3SrcRoe4s1nYyxY6.

Once you fill out the form, you will be able to download the user’s manual and get instructions on how to get the app.

**All participants should download the user’s manual and open the app at home first!**

If you have submitted the form and have not received email instructions within 5 minutes, please check your spam folder. If the instructions are not in your spam folder, please email [email protected].

After the adventure, please fill out this survey!

Still have questions? Check out our FAQ page. 

THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS!

This project was made possible by

The Independence Foundation; the Library Company; and a generous donation from lead donors Jean and Marc Machiz.

CREDITS

Pig Iron Theatre Company

In association with the Library Company

Presents

FRANKLIN’S SECRET CITY

By Robert Quillen Camp and Dan Rothenberg

Featuring:

Izzy Sazak as Persephone Poledouris

Grace McLean as The Factuary

Johnnie Hobbs III as Kenneth Moonstone

Additional Voices by:

Fred Brown, Jenson Lavallee, Edward Posnett, Sarah Sanford and James Sugg

Script and Concept: Robert Quillen Camp and Dan Rothenberg

UX Design/Lead Unity Developer: Lisa Szolovits

UI Design: Yichan Wang

Original Music by Rosie Langabeer and Josh Machiz

Sound Design: Robert Quillen Camp

Prototyper/ Unity Coder: Arnab Chakravarty

Server and Bluetooth Consultant: Dave Tennent

Additional Unity Design: Robert Quillen Camp and Jacob Gilbert

Direction: Dan Rothenberg

Production and Stage Management: Jacob Gilbert and Adam Swez

This project was made possible by

The Independence Foundation; the Library Company; and a generous donation from lead donors Jean and Marc Machiz.