Andrew Brown and Omeed Shams, graduate students in innovation and entrepreneurship, developed Kwest, a free app that takes its users on a digital scavenger hunt/guided tour of neighborhoods.

Two UT Dallas business school graduate students have developed an app that helps people interactively explore popular neighborhoods in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Omeed Shams and Andrew Brown, graduate students in innovation and entrepreneurship, developed Kwest in fall 2014. The app, which can be downloaded in the App Store, uses riddles, puzzles and games to guide people through neighborhoods such as Dallas’ Bishop Arts District, Uptown, Deep Ellum and even attractions like the Dallas Zoo. He also plans to develop cooperative and competitive experiences for social meet-ups, and to offer Kwest Plus, a paid-for curated night on the town.

“It will take the planning out of a date night,” Shams said.

Besides helping users explore neighborhoods, Shams also wants to develop Kwest experiences for specific attractions such as the State Fair, Perot Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art.