The Player Card

The brief, the build, and the result.

The Player Card is a multi-station live activation Remiam built end-to-end for a major sportswear-brand × UK-retailer collaboration, touring well-established shopping malls across the UK through 2024. The format is intentionally physical: a visitor registers their details on an entry iPad, walks four discrete challenge stations — a reaction-tap challenge, a vertical-jump challenge, a grip-strength challenge, and a football-accuracy kick challenge — has a portrait captured at the end, and is then printed a personalised player card on-site, scored across their attributes. A live big-screen leaderboard tracks the top performers across the mall in realtime, and every card carries a QR code so visitors can download or share their card later. Underneath, the architecture is six co-operating services: a Nuxt 3 event website + API hosting registration and the leaderboard, station-specific apps for jump activation and the football shootout, a photo-grabber service that captures the visitor's portrait at the right moment, a Node-based print server driving the on-site PDF printer via pdf-to-printer, a local-Supabase sync service (upc-sync-local) that keeps a venue copy in step with the cloud Supabase + Digital Ocean Spaces for assets. The whole thing is redeployable per venue, recovers gracefully if venue wifi drops, and includes a manual-entry mode so staff can keep the experience moving even if a station has a hardware blip.