QUEST SYDNEY

Discover Sydney, suburb by suburb, from your phone.

Walk into a suburb and the game tells you where you are, whose Country it is in that council's own words, and who is standing on the main corner. Every street from OpenStreetMap, every welcome a quotation, someone to meet in each of the suburbs below.

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Quest Sydney on a phone: a pixel-art street from above, the round nav disc, QUESTS and FEEDBACK buttons
Rookwood, on a phone. The round screen at the bottom is the map and the joystick at once.

How a suburb greets you

Cross a boundary and a card comes up: the suburb's name, and the acknowledgement of Country its council publishes, in the council's own words, with the source. Then you go and find the person on the main corner. Each of the 691 suburbs has one: a name, a role that fits the place, an opinion about it, and a mug with the suburb on it for your bag.

Finding the corner, talking, taking the mug and saying whether the corner looked right are each worth points, and points are what the people in this city want from you.

Every suburb, and who is on the corner

Where the map goes beyond the suburbs

The map itself is all of Sydney: 166 stations from Penrith to Bondi Junction and every street between them, all walkable. The welcomes and the people cover all 691 suburbs above, in 33 councils, and every acknowledgement is a quotation from that council, never a guess.

Questions

Is every Sydney suburb in it?

The map is all of Sydney, from Penrith to Bondi Junction, and you can walk anywhere on it. The suburb welcomes and the people on the corners cover all 691 suburbs across 33 councils.

Whose Country is each suburb on?

The welcome card quotes the acknowledgement of Country each council publishes on its own website, with the source. Where a place has no council, the slot stays empty rather than guessed.

Who are the people on the corners?

One per suburb, 678 of them: a name, a role that fits the place, and something to say about it. They are characters, not real residents. Each one has a mug for your bag.

What do I get for finding them?

Points: for finding the corner, for talking, for the mug, and a little more for saying whether the corner looked right. Points are what the people in the city want from you.

Can I start in my own suburb?

Not yet. Everyone starts in Newtown and gets there on foot or by train, which is the point: you learn the city the way people do.