Kartograff is the world's first O2O (online to offline) adventure travel contest platform. We curate unique, badass, bespoke & otherwise awesome adventures around the globe for our members to win, and this Slideshare is a detailed walkthrough on how to play the game.

1. Welcome to Kartograff, the world’s first online Storytelling
contest with real world adventures & unique experiences
as prizes.
www.kartograff.com
This document will guide you through the basics, such as:
creating an account
signing up for a contest
creating a Story using the Story Editor
voting & commenting, and finally,
finding out who won

2. With Kartograff, contestants upload Stories for a chance to win a
once-in-a-lifetime adventure. In essence Kartograff is a collection of
stories and storytellers interested in new cultures, exploration,
adventure and new experiences. We’re nomads, travellers,
adventurers, photographers, writers, videographers, journalists and
armchair anthropologists.
Our inspirations are VICE, Reddit, Atlas Obscura, Kickstarter, and
even Werner Herzog.

3. Let’s get rolling. First up: creating an account.
To begin the process, click become a member just
above our logo.
Membership is free and allows you to upload your
Stories to enter contests. It Also gives you voting rights
and access to random draw prizes.

4. As you can see, creating an account is pretty
straightforward. If you already have an account made, you
can use this page to log in.
Note: once you create an account, the Story Editor will
appear! You don’t need to create a Story right at this time,
but it is a good idea to at least familiarise yourself with how
it works. Like G.I. Joe, knowing is half the battle.

5. Here’s my member page, it’s not too filled out
now, but that’ll change! Note that these pages
are publicly viewable.
Profile pics: can be photos or .gifs, and like
your short bio, can be updated anytime.
Mail is basic and internal.
Recent activity can be used to follow recent
comments and contest entries
Story Editor is where you create, manage and
edit your Stories (more on this soon!)
Combined Score carries no weight on
individual contests, but is instead just a bit of
friendly competition
Erasing a profile: please email us, as we can
only erase profiles that are not in any current
competitions

6. Let’s check out the top page a bit more before signing up
for an Adventure, cool?
The Kartograff top page has 2 navigations: the main
navigation sidebar and the Adventure Navigation in the
top right corner. There are also 3 stages of contest:
1. Live Contests. You can’t sign up for these, but you
can vote & comment on them (as long as you’re a
member!). Every live contest lasts exactly 7 days.
2. Proposed Adventures. Sign up for these! Most
proposed adventures will collect contestants over
a 30-day sign-up period.
3. Successful Contests. This is basically just a
scoreboard showing everybody’s score from the
previous contest.
Cool? Let’s sign up for an Adventure Contest! That’s why
we’re here, right!?

7. Next up: signing up for a contest
Let’s use our Beta Test contest as an example, and start
by clicking BETA TEST - HELP US IRON OUT SOME
WRINKLES in the adventure navigation box.

8. Here’s the BETA TEST info page. All Adventures
at all stages have similar info pages.
SIGN UP in the top right.
A “stats box” underneath that gives you a lot of
info at a glance, including the skill factor.
A detailed write up underneath the stats box.
A big ass map in the middle (at Kartograff, we dig
maps - it’s right there in our name!).
And finally, some images under the map to help
you visualise the adventure in question.
Because we’re signing up for a contest, let’s go
ahead and click SIGN UP.

9. So we’ve gone & clicked SIGN UP, and it brought us to this page. What
we need to do to enter this contest is:
1. Select our Story (or create a fresh Story on the fly)
2. LOCK IN our Story in the top right to confirm.
BUT we haven’t made a Story yet, have we? Let’s make one right now.
note: some contests are crowdfunded, which have a $1-5 entry fee
depending on the adventure in question. If so, a 3rd step occurs: pay
the entry fee by PayPal. Don’t worry, we only collect your entry fees if
enough people sign up for the contest, otherwise no money exchanges
hands.

10. Before we create a Story, let’s learn why they’re important.
Kartograff is a game, right? Well, your Story is like your game
piece. Each contest’s prize is an Adventure, and Stories are a
way of figuring out who deserves to win!
Your Story is a collection of up to 10 images, gifs and text
proving to the world that you deserve to win the adventure! It’s
part blog post, part tumblr, part Vine, part portfolio, all story.
Using the Story Editor is super simple, but making a
compelling Story can be quite tough. The best advice we can
give you is to have a storyboard prepared beforehand. Having
your images all lined up and knowing what you’re going to
write about makes the process a lot easier!

11. Making a Story part I
Step 1: give your Story a title.
This is the first thing people will
see, so make it pop!
Step 2: add a main image.
When adding images first
Choose File then click Upload.
You can crop afterwards (*no
cropping in mobile)
Step 3: start adding text &
more images to build up your
story. We don’t allow video
uploading, but try to get
creative with linking, etc!

12. Making a Story part II
Step 4: click save to profile in
the bottom right to finalise the
process! Note that you can
have up to 3 stories at any
given time.
Story Editor Troubleshooting:
* make sure that you give your
story a title & main image or
else it won’t save.
* if the text input doesn’t work
refresh the page and let us
know.
* After saving, wait up to 5s
while your Story is uploaded.
You’ll get a confirmation notice
when everything is set! (see
next page)

13. Making a Story part III
All done, and confirmation to
prove it!
Why did we create a Story
again? Oh yeah, to enter a
contest! Let’s go back to the
Proposed Adventure page and
enter the Beta Test contest.

14. So we’ve found our way back to the SIGN UP page
and now we have a Story made (“On The Road”); all
we have to do to finalise entry is:
1. click SELECT beside ON THE ROAD, then,
2. click LOCK IN in the upper right corner
Successful contest entry will bring up a confirmation
page (see next page!)

15. And there we go! SIGN UP changed to SIGNED
UP; let’s move on to Voting & Gameplay.

16. Next Section, the guts of the platform:
LIVE CONTESTS: Voting & Gameplay
You’ll notice a lot of countdown clocks on the site, which
are here to make Kartograff as fair as possible (and were
detailed way back on the 5th slide). So let’s assume that
the timer clicked down and turned the BETA TEST
Proposed Adventure into the BETA TEST Live Contest. It’
s now time to vote!
First things first, find the BETA TEST Live Contest on the
top page and click on it (again, top right).

17. Voting & Gameplay part 1: main info page
Truth be told, not too much to do here. Most of the info didn’
t change, though if you check the stats box you’ll be able to
see how many people signed up.
The main focus of this page is to ensure that non-contestant
voters know the adventure & contest details. Remember,
any member can vote on any Live Contest as long as they’
re signed in.
To keep moving forward, just click VOTE & DISCUSS in the
top right corner.

18. Voting & Gameplay part 2: Story Grid
Kinda pretty, isn’t it? These are the thumbnails of every
Story uploaded to the BETA TEST contest.
1. Sort Stories (highest, lowest, most discussed)
2. Find specific Stories (your own, friends, family, etc)
to vote & comment on.
3. Click the thumbnail to open up the Story Detail,
which is where you may vote & comment.

19. Voting & Gameplay part 3: Story Detail pt 1
Finally here! This is the Story that kuritan entered into the
BETA TEST contest. It’s short Story, just one image, with
lots of text. Everybody will tell their story differently in their
attempt to win the prize, but the Story Detail core features
remain the same:
1. Upvoting & downvoting determines your Story Score
2. Commenting determines your Comment Score
This phase of the contest always lasts one week, and your
final score is calculated with the following formula:
[story score x skill factor] + comment score

20. Voting & Gameplay part 3: Story Detail pt 2
There are a lot of fine points to consider when playing &
strategizing, more than we can cover here.
We highly recommend that you check out the GAMEPLAY
subheading in the main navigation to find out the details,
where we explain things like the skill factor, what happens
in case of a tie, and various tips & tricks to help you create a
great Story & get the most out of the Kartograff platform.
For the time being, there’s just one more small section to
cover: Successful Contests.

21. Last Section:
SUCCESSFUL CONTESTS
Should look familiar by now, no? The main info page
always stays the same, only the button in the top right
changes. Now it prompts us to view rankings, so let’s
check it out!

22. Should look familiar by now, no? The main info page
always stays the same, only the button in the top right
changes. Now it prompts us to view rankings, so let’s
check it out!
And here we go! The final rankings all loaded up in the
Story Grid one last time. You can still open up individual
stories and check individual scores, but of course voting &
commenting is locked.
This grid is essentially the final say: if your name appears
at the top, you win!
All done! We’ll leave it up to you to check out other
features, such as Suggest an Adventure.
Good luck & keep adventuring!