Escape Games
Designing Escape Games
Being able to create escape games from scratch is a unique experience, they are projects of significant size that go beyond simply designing a game, they require a lot of team management and logistics to be brought to fruition. This is also why they are so satisfying to create : they allow us to transform ideas into a physical game space with handmade puzzles and enigmas.
The steps in making an escape game include :
· Designing the puzzles on paper, making prototypes and testing them
· After being adjusted, we buy the equipement and craft the puzzles
· Planning the communication campaign, organising the event
· Booking a room, installing it and performing final tests with the room set up
· Launching our event!
Aperture Escape Game - January 2020
In the near future, someone will use a spacetime travelling weapon to steal the plans of an artificial superintelligence for their own profit. However by doing this they have caused spacetime anomalies that threatens our reality to collapse! The players have been recruted to destroy the plans of this AI to prevent all of this from happening. They have 45 minutes to do so before it is too late...
This probably is the most ambitious escape game I have created. It featured two different rooms, each one with its own ambiance and enigmas that reflected upon their design.
· One room set in the past, with emphasis on search and manipulating objects to solve the puzzles.
· The other one in the near future, focused on logic-based enigmas.
Cybersecurity Escape Game - May 2019
Devoteam is under attack! A group of cyber hackers are trying to steal all their data, including their most secret plans of nuclear weaponry. The players have 45 minutes to activate the defense system and fend of the attack to save the day!
This escape game was sponsored by Devoteam, an IT Consulting compagny, who asked us to create it to promote one of their events. Thus it is centered around the use of technology, especially the players's smartphones.
