It’s hard to do: to win, teams must complete 100% of the puzzles in the game.It’s on a deadline: an in-room clock counts down from 60 minutes.And yes, this may be a novelty bubble, and escape rooms may go the way of laser tag.Įscape rooms are much easier to define than immersive theatre-although they may not involve escaping, nor do they necessarily happen in a room.Īn “escape-the-room” game puts a small team in a room (or series of rooms) and requires them to solve a series of puzzles/challenges/tasks in order to achieve their goal. Granted, we have different end goals: one wants to give people a fun night of puzzling and the other, well, let’s just say that they never get asked by critics if they consider their work “art” or not. Oh, and did I mention that they easily operate 15-30 times a week, make decent money as for-profit companies when well-managed, and run for years? Like immersive theatre, escape games vary widely in budget and quality, but unlike immersive theatre, people outside of NYC and LA have actually heard of them, and some have even played them. They are the ones mapping the frontiers of what immersive entertainment can be. Escape rooms have already achieved what we can only hope to do in the next ten years. Together, we make up the new landscape of experiential entertainment.īut escape rooms own a LOT MORE LAND, guys. Both use the buzzword “immersive” to sell the experience-and want to deliver on that, too. Both invite grown adults to play like kids again. Both industries invite customers to take action inside a designed world. They have more in common where it counts than they have differences. Think of immersive theatre and escape rooms as siblings. But our first outing, The Man From Beyond, belongs to both worlds, so today I want to look at the relationship between escape rooms and immersive theatre, and see what it takes for a production to be both. Everything Strange Bird Immersive will produce will be immersive theatre, but not everything we create will be an escape room. I’ve made vows to immersive theatre, but a piece of my heart is with escape rooms. Super-stoked and a bit sweaty after Escape Games NYC ![]() ![]() They get me off my butt doing something I’ve never done before. Even when they have no story to tell, even when the set is an office, even when the clue-structure has gone AWOL, I love them. This is gonna be a long one, but an important one, so strap in.
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