An atmospheric SwiftUI adventure game set in Banff, Alberta, where players explore historic locations, collect clues, photograph landmarks, solve puzzles, and uncover the mystery of Bigfoot and the Lost Lemon Mine.
Discover Banff: Legends and Lore is an interactive story-driven iOS game built with SwiftUI. Players begin outside the Banff Park Museum and gradually unlock new locations across Banff by collecting items, reading notes, solving environmental puzzles, and completing a historical photo journal.
The game blends:
- point-and-click exploration
- inventory-based puzzles
- historical photo collection
- location travel through a museum corkboard
- atmospheric ambience and sound effects
- a final curator puzzle
- a folklore-inspired ending involving Bigfoot and the Lost Lemon Mine
The experience is designed to feel like a cozy mystery, part travel adventure, part local legend, and part escape room.
The Banff Park Museum is in trouble.
Public interest is fading, the curator is desperate, and only one mystery might save it:
Who guards the Lost Lemon Mine?
Armed with a camera, a journal, and a growing bag of unusual tools, players travel across Banff to gather proof, follow historical leads, and piece together a legend no one was supposed to find.
But deep beneath Tunnel Mountain, the story becomes stranger than expected.
Was it a dream?
Or did something follow you back?
Players interact with illustrated scenes using tappable hotspots. Each location includes objects to inspect, collect, unlock, or photograph.
Locations include:
- Banff Park Museum Exterior
- Banff Park Museum Interior
- Bow Falls
- Cave and Basin
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Downtown Banff
- Upper Hot Springs
- Sulphur Mountain
- Sulphur Mountain Observatory
- Lake Minnewanka
- Tunnel Mountain
- Bigfoot’s Lair
Players collect useful items and use them to unlock new areas or solve puzzles.
Example inventory items include:
- Small Shovel
- Gaff Hook
- Wooden Matches
- Vintage Brass Token
- Observatory Locker Key
- Rusty Crowbar
- Woodcutter’s Axe
- Lost Lemon Gold Nugget
Inventory items are tracked through a central GameState object and displayed in the player’s bag.
Players use an in-game camera to photograph important locations and moments. Each photo contributes to the journal and reveals a secret letter for the final puzzle.
The photo journal encourages players to fully explore Banff before returning to the curator.
The museum corkboard acts as a travel hub. As the player discovers leads and collects important items, new Banff locations become available.
Some locations unlock immediately, while others require specific tools or story progression.
The game includes a variety of simple adventure-game puzzle interactions, such as:
- opening locked containers
- melting frozen doors
- breaking boarded cave entrances
- using collected tools
- solving a museum door combination lock
- triggering story events through exploration
After entering Tunnel Mountain, players experience a more cinematic sequence involving:
- a blackout
- waking up in Bigfoot’s lair
- discovering the Lost Lemon Mine
- meeting the Bigfoot family
- escaping back to the museum exterior
The return to the museum includes an eyes-opening effect, a dreamlike story prompt, and a gold nugget reveal.
Once all required photos are collected, the curator asks the final question:
Who guards the Lost Lemon Mine?
Players arrange discovered letter scraps to form the answer. The puzzle uses tappable image scraps rather than a keyboard text field for a more tactile storybook feel.
The game includes:
- looping ambience by location
- tap/click feedback
- item collection sounds
- camera sounds
- puzzle feedback
- magical location travel sounds
- special reveal sounds
Ambience is managed through a reusable SoundManager using AVAudioPlayer.
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- AVFoundation
- Combine
- Xcode
- iOS
iOSApp2/
├── App/
│ └── iOSApp2App.swift
│
├── State/
│ └── GameState.swift
│
├── Models/
│ ├── InventoryItem.swift
│ ├── Location.swift
│ ├── LocationLead.swift
│ ├── Photo.swift
│ ├── SceneHotspot.swift
│ └── SceneOverlayObject.swift
│
├── Managers/
│ ├── SoundManager.swift
│ └── HapticsManager.swift
│
├── Sound/
│ ├── GameSound.swift
│ └── AmbientSound.swift
│
├── Views/
│ ├── MuseumExteriorView.swift
│ ├── MuseumInteriorView.swift
│ ├── BowFallsView.swift
│ ├── CaveAndBasinView.swift
│ ├── BanffSpringsHotelView.swift
│ ├── DowntownBanffView.swift
│ ├── HotSpringsView.swift
│ ├── SulphurMountainView.swift
│ ├── ObservatoryInteriorView.swift
│ ├── LakeMinnewankaView.swift
│ ├── TunnelMountainView.swift
│ ├── BigfootLairView.swift
│ └── CuratorEndingView.swift
│
├── Components/
│ ├── ImageSceneView.swift
│ ├── HotspotZoomOverlay.swift
│ ├── InventoryView.swift
│ ├── JournalView.swift
│ ├── FakeCameraView.swift
│ ├── ItemCollectedOverlay.swift
│ ├── PocketGoldNuggetOverlay.swift
│ ├── LetterScrapPuzzleView.swift
│ ├── CombinationLockView.swift
│ ├── SnowfallOverlay.swift
│ └── TopHUDView.swift
│
└── Assets/
├── Images
├── Item Icons
├── Letter Scraps
└── Audio
Requirements
- macOS
- Xcode
- iOS Simulator or physical iPhone
- SwiftUI-compatible iOS target
Recommended:
- Xcode 15 or newer
- iOS 17 or newer
Installation
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/vibrant-impact/iOSApp2
Open the project in Xcode:
open iOSApp2.xcodeproj
Then:
- Select an iPhone simulator or connected device.
- Build and run with Command + R.
- Start exploring Banff.
This project was built as a highly visual SwiftUI adventure game. Many scenes rely on custom image assets and tappable coordinate-based hotspots.
The hotspot system uses a base canvas size for each scene, allowing hotspot rectangles to scale with the displayed image.
Example:
private let canvasSize = CGSize(width: 1290, height: 2796)
private let hotspots: [SceneHotspot] = [
SceneHotspot(
id: "mailbox",
name: "Mailbox",
rect: CGRect(x: 13, y: 1871, width: 354, height: 245)
)
]
Possible future additions:
save/load persistence accessibility improvements larger map interface hint system animated scene transitions more historical facts in the journal achievements iPad layout polish localization App Store trailer and screenshots
Created by Stephanie Otteson.
Built with SwiftUI, late-night debugging, Banff inspiration, and one very suspicious Bigfoot.