Peter Si, Manas Pant, Ali Alrahma, Alia ElKattan
Are you done with escape rooms where one dictators clamps on all the clues through the entire way? Join us at Escape Reality, where cooperation is the only way to success.
Players will be locked in a virtual room in which there is are physical divides which cannot be crossed, with clues and keys to escaping dispersed across each room. The only way to get out is to talk and discuss what you see with each other, relaying back and forth crucial informations to solve tasks together.
Unlike conventional physical escape room environments, Escape Reality provides a procedurally generated tasks and challenge flows by which every game and room is different from another. In another word, you will never feel like you’re re-doing the same game, and each new puzzle will be brand new for your experience. Furthermore, no game can be like another as the most important element in this game is cooperation, and each new players that you are locked in with will be able to offer unique interactions in that aspect.
Feel the thrill and suspense as you see the time ticking away for you to escape. Learn to work with a teammate through completing tasks together to escape the encroaching death. For in Escape Reality, whether it is the physically separated space, signs and objects visible only to few characters of the game, or challenges that require a time based interaction along many parts of the room, the only way to success is through cooperation. The fulfillment you experience as you escape a room with a friend will make you be closer than ever before.
As the first networked VR escape room environment, Escape Reality offers a truly unique insight into what the future of escape rooms are. Join us at Escape Reality.
It's just another day at the super secret chemistry lab. Just another day of hacking through millions of chemicals with your lab mates, mixing and concocting deadly toxins that might just one day destroy the world. Hidden away in a normal office building up in the middle of New York City, the lab presents a cold and sleek, scientific vibe in contrast to the beautiful natural view outside. Out of nowhere, you hear a loud explosion at the corner of the lab. You see that the lab manager has mixed the wrong chemiclas and have just blown themself up while concocting a deadly neuro toxin virus, dying instantly. What's worse is that the lab manger is the one who holds all the passwords and keys to the lab's super secret layouts. As the barricade comes down from all sides of the lab as a preventative measure to isolate the deadly contagious virus within the room, you realize that you have but a few minutes to concoct an antidote to survive. The good news is that while you're limited to sections of the lab due to an electronic bomb strapped to your ankle for lab management purposes, there are people in all different sections of the lab that can work together to get out of this bind and escape this reality.
There are two main interaction that users are faced with. One with the environment, and one with each other. In all senses, the users are placed under limitations by the environment. They are restricted by limited time (health bar UI that continually decreases due to toxin gas), they are restricted by physical space (the bomb that sets off if you step out of your given work zone), and they are restricted by physical abilities (cannot see something while looking at something else, the dark room limits vision). However, to overcome all of this, they have each other. This is why the latter interaction, the one with each other, becomes so meaningful. The users are but present with one challenge of creating the antidote, for which they must backtrack the interactions that they must complete. This clear goal and obscure means to acheive this goal is the driving force behind people to become more active. The results of this interaction will allow people to become true friends, as it is a well known rule that people who survive dangerous neurotoxin gas together must become friends.
As there are but continual interactions with new environments, puzzles, and new people, the experience is always bound to provide a new pleasure, a new experience, and new friends.
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What does the audience member hear? Group them in three overall categories: sound effects, interface sounds and music. What is their character (e.g. metallic, smooth, melodic, organic), and how does that character tie in to the overall experience you are trying to build? You should have specific examples.
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The user joins the game through a lobby in the menu. The user is able to see whether there are users in other rooms and choose a room. The user starts in a plain black screen with an audio source of the storyline. The user is able to listen to how the story starts and it is a dialogue between the lab attendant and his colleague about a gas leak and that they are about to die, and any survivors must be able to find clues in the room to be able to unlock the room. Having a simple dialogue allows us to focus on creating a better overall experience since we do not have to focus on creating an introduction scene. The users then spawn in the room and within close vicinity is the gas mask and goggles, which they are quickly able to find and interact with to start off looking for other clues.
The users are able to teleport within the room and interact with the objects and clues with the triggers. There will only be one gas mask and one pair of goggles, so each user can only have either one. This creates a more cooperative gaming aspect to the experience. The users will conclude their experience by unlocking the final door to the puzzle and escape the room, and there will likely be a flash of bright white light when they open the door to indicate success. This also allows us to focus on the overall experience more and not a few seconds scene. The visibility decreases overtime due to the gas and the players have 4 minutes to complete the puzzle.
The important moments are the intro scene and finding the gas mask and goggles, in addition to finding the different chemicals and clues around the room to unlock the cabinets (with locks) and the “dark room” maze, which has the final critical clue. There will also be a “gas zone” in the room where there will be a way for the users to extend the time (for 1.5 minutes) and increase visibility.
Based on all that we are offering to our users, I think it is very clear why we are offering a unique experience to our users. We are offering a virtual world where you can experience the thrill of playing the escape room game wherever you want, whenever you want. Whats even better is the fact that our environment is different everytime you enter and play. This way you dont even have to deal with the limitations of the actual physical space. VR escape room is also going to be relatively inexpensive compared to what the physical one is.
Our project is the perfect combination of combination of thrill, cooperation, pressure, excitement along with accessibility and value for price. Whether you are getting bored at home or you have gone to a VR theme park, you can enjoy our service anywhere. Moreover, since our room is different every time, you will never play the same thing again.