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Custom trade show games // Built for the aisle // Ready for the room

Custom Trade Show Booth GamesBuilt Around Your Product

Be the booth people point at.

EventBitz builds custom trade show games and trade show booth games that give attendees a reason to stop, a score to chase, and a better way to start talking with your team.

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Concept visualization of a game delivered across a screen, mobile device, and arcade cabinet — EventBitZ concept visualization

Playable Concepts

See what a product story looks like as a game.

Save the Stack

Observability can be a complex story to explain from a booth aisle. Save the Stack gives a visitor a clear objective: navigate the environment, collect monitoring signals, and keep the stack online.

The world: platforms and hazards make the run immediately recognizable as a game.

The signals: logs, metrics, and traces become things to collect.

The mission: protecting uptime supplies a clear objective. Infrastructure, Security, and AI Observability provide different topics for the run.

After the round, the booth team asks: What makes uptime hard for your team?

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Maze Chase

Collect dots, find a route through the maze and avoid pursuing obstacles.

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Heart Runner

Collect healthy habits, avoid setbacks, and keep your health meter up.

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Booth Play: scan, play, win

Trade Show Booth Ideas: what stops traffic and starts conversations

Built for event reality

The game has to work before the player even touches it.

Visible from the aisle

Motion, sound, spectators, and a live score create stopping power.

Understood in seconds

The objective is clear without a tutorial from booth staff.

Short enough to move

A focused round supports replay. Rehearse the full visitor cycle to plan throughput.

Connected to the pitch

The game creates a real product conversation after the score appears.

Reliable in the room

Browser delivery, hardware testing, and show-floor fallback planning.

Useful after the show

Where included in scope, hosting supports continued play, with lead and score exports for applicable builds.

Practical booth planning

Plan the setup, play and follow-up together.

Round length

Current concepts use a short round, often around 60 seconds. Rehearse instructions, play, reset and the first staff question to estimate the full cycle.

Booth setup

Plan the laptop, display, power, connectivity, controls and player space with your AV or exhibit team. Hardware, cabinets and onsite support are scoped separately.

Lead capture

Lead capture and score reporting depend on the game scope. Agree the opt-in flow, data handoff and follow-up before production.

Pricing and delivery

A simple branded game starts around $5,000. An original custom game starts around $15,000 and includes 12 months of hosting. Continued hosting and maintenance is currently $2,000 per year.

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Choose the footprint

Start with a screen.Scale to the whole floor.

The same game idea can be delivered at the size and level of presence your event needs.

Lightweight booth setup

Run the hosted game from a laptop into the booth's existing display. Add a custom vinyl-wrapped joystick when the experience needs a more tactile arcade feel.

Connected show floor

Pair the main booth experience with a mobile-ready version attendees can play from QR codes, roaming staff, satellite displays, or post-event outreach.

Turnkey arcade activation

Build the game into a custom cabinet or integrated booth feature designed to act as a destination.

The 60-second loop

Fast to learn. Satisfying to replay. Easy to talk about.

Attract

An animated idle screen makes the challenge visible from the aisle.

Enter

Offer an agreed opt-in flow when lead capture is part of the scope.

Play

One clear objective, responsive controls, and immediate feedback.

Score

A leaderboard or outcome creates competition and repeat attempts.

Convert

End with the product connection, reward, QR action, or booth conversation.

Planning checklist

What we need to design the right game.

Bring what you know. We'll help shape the mechanic, delivery setup, and level of customization around it.

Event date, venue, and booth footprint.
Audience and traffic expectations.
Product or campaign message.
Desired session length.
Lead-capture requirements.
Giveaway or leaderboard rules.
Screen, mobile, joystick, or cabinet preference.
Venue connectivity and deployment requirements.
Brand and legal approval process.

Pricing & Delivery

Family built in Arlington, VA.

We are a small family studio turning complex products into original games. The people who learn your product are the people who build your game.

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Investment Range

≈ $5,000 / ≈ $15,000

A focused branded game for a single event starts around $5,000. Original custom games start around $15,000 and include 12 months of hosting. Continued hosting and maintenance is currently $2,000 per year. Cabinets, hardware, onsite support, rush delivery and integrations are scoped separately.

Timeline

2–5 Days

For the initial concept direction after receiving your brief. Game development typically takes 2–4 weeks after concept approval, followed by two weeks for refinement and show-floor preparation.

Make the booth the beginning

Tell us what needs to happen at the booth.

We will recommend the mechanic, delivery setup, and level of customization that fit the room.

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