Project Skydrop is a treasure hunt created by Jason Rohrer, inspired by the battle royale shooter Fortnite. Participants have 21 days to find a trophy in a continuously shrinking circle.
What kind of game is this? Game developer Jason Rohrer has initiated a kind of treasure hunt. Somewhere in the northeastern USA, he has hidden a trophy made of solid gold, waiting for a fortunate finder. Rohrer has personally covered the $26,000 cost. The winner will also receive a “life-changing” amount of Bitcoins.
For his “Project Skydrop,” the developer took inspiration from the shooter Fortnite—but participants do not have to fight each other with weapons.
What is going on in real Fortnite, you can see here:
Want his treasure? Go find it!
How does it work? Project Skydrop started on September 19, 2024, and runs for 21 days. At the beginning of the treasure hunt, the area where the trophy might be located was a circle with a diameter of 500 miles, which is almost 805 kilometers.
So the area where the treasure could be is huge. But every day, the circle gets a little smaller—just like the storm in Fortnite. Participants can view the current circle on a map on the official game website.
Additionally, Rohrer posts a photo daily of the trophy’s location on X, formerly Twitter. As the circle shrinks, the image zooms out, revealing more of the surroundings.
After almost a week, the area where the trophy is located can be narrowed down to Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, or Vermont.
The duration of 21 days was set by Rohrer because three weeks is a good period for a “dramatic suspense arc.” He explains: “It’s long enough for people to feel they have a chance, but not so long that they lose interest.”
In Germany, there was already a similar project. Here, it was none other than the Twitch streamer Papaplatte, who contributed significantly to solving it with his community. You can read more about it here: German Twitch streamer makes a viewer a millionaire: “Thank you, Papaplatte”
