Deep narrative: the next evolution of the Escape Room experience
A guest post by Joanne Reay, screenwriter and producer at Terra Mater Studios and speaker at our Escape Room Game Jam this month.
Month: March 2015
Playing Live-Action Escape Rooms in a Competitive Mode?
You might have heard of the rapidly growing trend of escape room games. In escape rooms groups of 3-8 players voluntarily get locked into a physical room. These live-action team-based games offer a variety of fascinating insights into game and level design, player cultures, business models, and technologies. We would like to enrich the discussion by asking how these games could be played in a competitive tournament style – as a (e)sport.
Escape Room Game Jam Keynote Speaker: Scott Nicholson
To kick off our first ever Escape Room Game Jam, we’ve asked Scott Nicholson to speak to us about escape room games!
Dr. Nicholson has recently been researching the design and development of Escape Rooms and will share with us some of his findings, as well as introduce to us what Escape Rooms are!