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Six illustrated multigenerational Singapore companions between the bay and a working service alley

Culture Quest Singapore

You’ve seen Singapore.
Now play it.

Solve clues by the bay. Follow stories through Kampong Gelam. Two free quests, played in Indulge Me.

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PLAY SINGAPORE · FREE TO START

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A FIRST CONVERSATION, SHAPED BY YOUTHREE CHOICES · ONE BRIEF
01Your setting
02What should visitors discover?
03The shape of the experience
YOUR CONVERSATION STARTER

The stay becomes a starting point.

Your neighbourhood, seen through a guest’s curiosity.

Explore nearby placesA short discovery
What can be tailored?

Story, characters, challenges and route. Together we define the audience, cultural research, scope and delivery before agreeing a project.

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SIX WAYS TO SEE THE CITY.

What are you in the mood for?

Noey, illustrated fictional companion
Noey / A DIFFERENT LENS
EXPLORE MARINA BAY

Look beyond the perfect view.

A SMALL CHALLENGEFind a reflection that changes the skyline.

Explore the free quest ↗Meet Noey →No booking required to browse. Check venue access before visiting.
Illustrated collage of Singapore River after darkAFTER THE LIGHTSWhat does the city hide in plain sight?Follow Dev ↗Ink drawing of the people and systems behind a working cityBEFORE THE OPENINGLook closer at who makes the day possible.Meet Siew ↗Painterly view of greenery woven into Singapore architectureBETWEEN DESIGN AND LIFEA city planned for surprises.Walk with Grace ↗
THE CITY, THROUGH SIX EYES / 01

Six ways into
Singapore.

Choose whose city you want to see. Your first companion route is free.

TWO FREE QUESTSMake a walk a gameMarina Bay or Kampong Gelam ↗FIRST MAP FREEFind your next stopArt, food, nature and the waterfront ↗THE CULTURAL CALENDARMake room for a night outBrowse dates, venues and official booking links ↗

Culture Quest Labs Singapore · playable city

Go out.
Play a little.

Choose a neighbourhood. Start free in Indulge Me.

CULTURE QUEST SINGAPORE / MISSION 01 · POWERED BY INDULGE MESingapore Bay:
the perfect view has a second layer.

Open the gamified experience, choose how you observe and let the waterfront become more than a backdrop.

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CULTURE QUEST SINGAPORE / MISSION 02 · POWERED BY INDULGE MEKampong Gelam:
domes, murals and stories.

Follow Madam Farah through patterns, public art and the cultural context that gives a neighbourhood more than one surface.

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Behind the characters · stories & illustrated encounters

The premise

The postcard is the opening shot. The city starts after it.

Famous and overlooked places belong to the same map.

Every companion changes what counts as a discovery.

Not everything interesting needs to become a game.

Table 17 · meet the companions

Six points of view.
One city that talks back.

Six fictional lives, six ways to notice Singapore. Choose a companion and discover what catches their eye.

SEQUENCE 01 · SIX INVITATIONSThe room was waiting for you.TABLE 17 · SEVENTH SEAT RESERVED
2.39 : 1

Six lives arrive separately. You complete the table.

YOU / EXPECTED
Illustrated character study of Mara Tan
01 / 06 · CHOOSE THIS POINT OF VIEW

Mara Tan

The after-hours curator

The museum closes. The city does not.

Inside the story +
DESIRETo curate one night that cannot be archived.CONTRADICTIONShe protects institutions, but trusts what happens outside them.RECURRING OBJECTA programme with seat 17 circledPLACE LENSBras Basah–BugisFIRST QUESTFind a threshold that changes meaning after closing time.THREADFarah altered her jacket. Noey remembers the light cue she cancelled.
Talk to Mara ↗
Illustrated character study of Dev Raman
02 / 06 · CHOOSE THIS POINT OF VIEW

Dev Raman

The magician who stayed

He can make a room look anywhere but where the secret is.

Inside the story +
DESIRETo feel surprised by his own profession again.CONTRADICTIONHe earns a living from wonder and has almost stopped believing in it.RECURRING OBJECTA brass key that opens nothing obviousPLACE LENSSingapore River after darkFIRST QUESTFollow three reflections. Decide which one is staging the city.THREADSiew knows his smallest refuge. Grace paid for a show she never attended.
Talk to Dev ↗
Illustrated character study of Auntie Siew
03 / 06 · CHOOSE THIS POINT OF VIEW

Auntie Siew

The keeper of clean mornings

Everyone knows her somewhere. Almost no one knows everywhere.

Inside the story +
DESIRETo leave places better without becoming invisible inside them.CONTRADICTIONEveryone greets her; few people ask where she is going.RECURRING OBJECTA red thread tied around a practical keyringPLACE LENSHawker morning and service lanesFIRST QUESTNotice three acts of care that tourists usually walk past.THREADShe found Dev’s key. Farah repairs the pocket where Siew keeps it.
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Illustrated character study of Noey Lim
04 / 06 · CHOOSE THIS POINT OF VIEW

Noey Lim

The light behind the light

He sees the machinery that makes spectacle feel effortless.

Inside the story +
DESIRETo make one perfect effect without erasing the people who built it.CONTRADICTIONHe creates spectacle, yet notices every cable, drain and emergency door.RECURRING OBJECTA lighting gel cut into a small red squarePLACE LENSCivic-stage infrastructureFIRST QUESTTrace the machinery behind one beautiful public view.THREADMara changed his cue. Dev insists the interruption saved the evening.
Talk to Noey ↗
Illustrated character study of Madam Farah
05 / 06 · CHOOSE THIS POINT OF VIEW

Madam Farah

The seamstress of occasions

A hem can reveal what the invitation leaves out.

Inside the story +
DESIRETo finish a garment whose owner has not returned.CONTRADICTIONShe dresses people for public moments and reads what they conceal.RECURRING OBJECTSix unmatched buttons in a paper envelopePLACE LENSKampong Gelam textile storiesFIRST QUESTFind a pattern that travelled, adapted and still feels at home.THREADShe dressed Mara and Grace. One of the six buttons belongs to neither.
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Illustrated character study of Grace Koh
06 / 06 · CHOOSE THIS POINT OF VIEW

Grace Koh

The discreet optimist

She thinks at city scale and hides in places with six tables.

Inside the story +
DESIRETo prove that a designed future can still contain accidents.CONTRADICTIONShe thinks at city scale but trusts only rooms with six tables.RECURRING OBJECTA photograph with one person carefully removedPLACE LENSPlanned nature and intimate roomsFIRST QUESTFind where planning ends and something unruly begins.THREADShe knows why Table 17 was reserved. Siew knows who arrived first.
Talk to Grace ↗
01

A detail interrupts

A message arrives after the gallery closes.

02

Someone is nearby

You choose whose version of the city to trust.

03

The route bends

A real place, one simple rule, a different outcome.

04

Another life crosses

The next companion was already in the scene.

Episode zero · the shared occasion

Six invitations.
One empty seat.

After a cultural venue closes, six people arrive dressed for an occasion that appears to have been cancelled. Table 17 is set for seven. Nobody agrees on who sent the invitations.

TABLE 17 · A FICTIONAL STORY
01 THE KEY02 THE BUTTON03 THE PHOTOGRAPH04 THE LIGHT CUE
WHAT THE PLAYER RECEIVESNot an exposition. A detail.

Each route reveals one object, one relationship and one new reason to look at a real place differently.

ONE ROUTE→ONE HUMAN CONTRADICTION→ONE CITY DETAIL→ONE NEW THREAD
Editorial paper collage of the Singapore River and Clarke Quay
Singapore River · a city in layers
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Marina Bay Adventure Quest

The city behind
the perfect view.

Explore Marina Bay through a free gamified experience in the Indulge Me app. Open the quest for its route and challenges.

  1. 01Choose a companion lens
  2. 02Carry one clear rule into the city
  3. 03Collect evidence only you could notice
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One publication · several registers

The medium changes
with the idea.

Character art, collage, botanical painting and social observation belong to one editorial system without repeating the same image for every place.

Gouache and watercolour study of tropical systems and Supertrees
Engineered natureTropical greenery, light and the city skyline
Ink and watercolour drawing of an environmental services worker clearing a rain drain in a Singapore service lane
The working cityEnvironmental Services field study · occupational detail informed by NEA, SkillsFuture and WSH guidance
REGISTER / 03Light, labour, machinery.

Original halftone and ink tension turns technical systems into character memory.

INK & HALFTONE
REGISTER / 04A pause before the trick.

High-contrast framing and off-centre stillness suggest a life before the encounter.

LIGHT & STILLNESS
REGISTER / 05The city, observed.

Soft grain, practical dress and daylight give the future a remembered texture.

COLOUR & MEMORY

The Singapore Edit

Make room
for something unexpected.

Exhibitions, performances and cultural encounters. Check the venue’s programme before setting out.

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Who makes this?

Culture Quest Labs
Singapore

Created by Indulge Me, this is where cultural research, character-led stories and playful discovery meet. For visitors exploring Singapore; for the people imagining a different experience of their place.

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