An interactive gaming system for tracking, directing, and otherwise guiding a gamer-guest throughout a destination to any of a multiplicity of game parts each for providing at least one guest experience to the gamer-guest while participating in a destination game, comprising:
- gamer-guest identification means being caried or worn by the gamer-guest within the destination while participating in the destination game and comprising any of electronically or optically detectable gamer-guest identity data;
- a mobile gaming device comprising computing and communication means, where the mobile gaming device is carried by the gamer-guest while participating in the destination game, where the mobile gaming device is in communications with the interactive gaming system, and where the mobile gaming device comprises a display;
- a multiplicity of game parts distributed across different locations throughout the destination, where each game part provides or otherwise comprises at least one of the game experiences, where each game part comprises or otherwise uses gamer-guest presence detection means for either electronically or optically detecting the gamer-guest identity data when the gamer-guest identification means is in the presence of the each game part, where the electronic presence detection means comprise any of global positioning systems, location positioning systems, or otherwise wireless communication means comprising any one of or any combination of RFID, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi for use in detecting any electronically detectable gamer-guest identity data, where the optical presence detection means comprise any of image sensors for use in detecting any optically detectable gamer-guest identity data, where the presence is a sufficient proximity for the gamer-guest identity data to be either of electronically or optically sensed by the detection means, and where the each game part communicates the gamer-guest identity data to the interactive gaming system in combination or otherwise associated with game part identity data, and the interactive gaming system comprising:
- game part location data comprising descriptions of the different destination locations associated with identity data for identifying the each game part;
- gamer-guest experience tracking data comprising information regarding the detected presence of the gamer-guest identification means at any of the multiplicity of game parts;
- game directives data comprising any one of or any combination of game rules, game tasks, game clues, and game part experience content, and where:
- the interactive gaming system either receives a request for directions to a next game part from the mobile gaming device as indicated by the gamer-guest or selects a next game part to be visited by the gamer-guest using at least in part any one of or any combination of the gamer-guest identity data, the gamer-guest experience tracking data, the game directives data, gamer-guest game responses received from the mobile gaming device, tracked game part information, and pre-known game part information, where tracked game part information comprises any one of or any combination of the current location of the specific game part, the number of gamer-guests or non-gamer-guests scheduled to be present, present, or estimated present at the specific game part, where pre-known game part information comprises access or otherwise availability times of the specific game part, the environment type of the specific game part including indoors or outdoors, the gamer profile of the specific game part comprising age ranges, languages spoken or available, or interest types, and where the interactive gaming system using at least in part the next game part identity data and the next game part location data determines and communicates any of directional information to the mobile gaming device for directing the gamer-guest to the next game part, and where the mobile gaming device provides visual direction indications to the gamer-guest using at least in part the mobile gaming device display and based at least in part upon any of the directional information.