In Escape Rooms, Video Games Meet Real Life
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In Escape Rooms, Video Games Meet Real Life
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#2I did the two permanent room escapes run by Real Escape Game/SCRAP in San Francisco (in the New People mall in Japantown), namely Escape from the Mysterious Room and Escape from the Time Travel Lab. They were great fun. (My teams didn't manage to escape from either of them.)
I also did their Escape from the Bank (themed after the aftermath of a bank robbery), where I think my team was the only one to make it out. That event is possibly less awesome because you're seated at a table in a big hall with a lot of other teams around you, rather than exploring small room all by yourselves.
Now I'm looking forward to trying the games in New York City!
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#3We've been working with "escape room" game event organizers like SCRAP for a while now. They're incredibly popular on our "Netflix for Events" service. I've done a handful and can certainly attest to this "video games in real life" trend in events from traditional scavenger hunts to a maze that you have to solve from the third person. I love this intersection of technology and real life entertainment. Folsom Street Foundry in SoMA has even started hosting weekly social game nights on Tuesdays
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#4I did the two permanent room escapes run by Real Escape Game/SCRAP in San Francisco (in the New People mall in Japantown), namely Escape from the Mysterious Room and Escape from the Time Travel Lab. They were great fun. (My teams didn't manage to escape from either of them.) I also did their Escape from the Bank (themed after the aftermath of a bank robbery), where I think my team was the only one to make it out. Tha…
I did Escape from the Mysterious Room as well, and really enjoyed it. We probably needed another 15 minutes to complete because we got hung up on one of the puzzles that needed a piece we hadn't found yet.
I'd like to do it again but would like to go with people who have actually have played escape games (esp. Japanese) before.
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#5I played the Escape from Time Travel Lab as a team building exercise and it was an awesome experience - I totally recommend it. I just wish they would put out more games!
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#6This escape the room as a live event started in Hong kong a few years ago. Glad to see it finally come here.
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#7Are they the same every time or is there an element of randomness in the puzzles and codes?
It'd be interesting if they could be random enough that someone couldn't spoil it for others, and people could use AR or just wi-fi to research clues?
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#8Are they the same every time or is there an element of randomness in the puzzles and codes? It'd be interesting if they could be random enough that someone couldn't spoil it for others, and people could use AR or just wi-fi to research clues?
I don't think many people are paying money to go to these just to "cheat". Unless... there are competitions.
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#9These are popular here in Taiwan, I think there's like 1 every day - held by many different organizations. The concept's the same - solve puzzles before the time runs outs.
Different organizations go to different lengths to make the activity feel more immersive, some are great, some are meh. Sometimes the group is so big, it can get very chaotic with everyone running around looking for clues.
The only downside is once they reveal the clues/answers, it can be frustrating if they were impossible to solve in the first place.
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#10These are really popular in China Mainland as well since about 2 years ago. People just create rooms at their own places and put ads on WeiBo to get people to come.