Leveling up Street Art exploration: Gamification is now live in the Street Art Cities App.

Street art discovery just got a little more addictive

Exploring street art has always been about curiosity, wandering, and stumbling into the unexpected. Today, it becomes something more: rewarding and addictive.

After months of building and testing, three new gamification features are officially live in the Street Art Cities app, designed to celebrate the way you explore, discover, and return to the streets again and again.

These features form the first layer of a larger research project by our DEV intern Noa Heutz, and they’re already reshaping how exploration feels inside the app.

Exploration progress

Track your journey city by city, and country by country.

Open Explore → Exploration and you’ll see a new compass icon🧭.

Tap it to view how many artworks you’ve marked as seen in each city and how far you’ve progressed across entire countries.

Whether you’re casually browsing or on a mission to complete a city, this gives your exploration a sense of direction and momentum.

Daily streaks

Consistency now counts, and it unlocks rewards.

We’ve actually been experimenting with badges for a while now, think of the hunter meetup badges, those early prototypes that rewarded community moments rather than exploration alone. Today’s update builds on that foundation and brings badges into the core of the app experience.

Mark at least one artwork as seen each day to build your streak.
Hit milestones at 7, 30, 90, and 365 days to earn streak badges that appear on your profile.

It’s a simple mechanic with a powerful effect: it turns everyday wandering into a habit.

New badges

A growing badge system celebrates your milestones — big and small.

You can now unlock badges for:

• First Discovery: your very first artwork

• Explorer 100: 100 artworks discovered

• Globetrotter 10: exploring 10 different cities

• City Complete: seeing every artwork in a city

• Country Pioneer / Settler / Conqueror: reaching 25%, 50%, or 75% of a country

• Streak Badges: for 7, 30, 90, and 365 days of daily exploration

All badges live on your profile under Achievements, giving your journey a visual identity.

Why this exists, and what comes next

These features are the foundation of Noa’s graduation project, a research‑driven exploration of how to make digital street art discovery more meaningful, playful, and community‑driven.

The work doesn’t stop here.
The research also explores:

• collaborative discoveries

• narrative routes

• quest‑style exploration

• shared challenges

• new ways to reward community contributions

Not all of these ideas made it into this release, but your feedback will determine which ones evolve into the next layer of the app.

Your feedback shapes the future

As always our community spirit prevails, so there’s a short feedback form linked inside the Exploration view, or you can open it directly from the app.

It takes about five minutes, and your input helps validate the design as part of Noa’s thesis.
Positive, negative, suggestions, bugs, everything is welcome.