Thirty seconds a round, 1,893 rounds in ten days

The exhibition rebuilt several scenes from Summit, the new map, and the shooting range is one of them: a mural of the agent Sage on the wall, an upright screen set in beside it, and a gun that players can really pick up and fire at it.

Most of the visitors play VALORANT, and they can tell after one shot whether a gun is accurate. The exhibition was open for ten days in a row, so the game also had to run reliably from opening to closing every day.

The game is kept as simple as possible. Pick up the light gun and hit the target on the screen to start. After a countdown, the targets on a grid of nine light up one after another, and the score is the number hit in thirty seconds.

Afterwards a name can be typed on the keyboard beside the screen. The score goes on that day’s leaderboard, Today’s Best, and the screen shows the player’s rank. The leaderboard starts again every day, so each day’s players have a chance to be on it.

The installation has four parts:

• The light guns, and the infrared calibration points fixed to the four edges of the screen.
• The game itself, with aim calibration and the Today’s Best leaderboard.
• A back office for the staff on site, where each day’s plays can be read and exported.
• A setup mode: switched on, it marks the centre lines and the midpoint of each edge on the screen, so the infrared calibration points can be fitted at those marks and the aim calibrated on installation day.

From the first round on the evening of 21 August to the close on 30 August, the shooting range was played 1,893 times, an average of 189 rounds a day. The busiest day, Sunday 23 August, saw 292.

1,209 different names appeared on the leaderboard. All of these figures come from the game’s own records.