How escape rooms evolved

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town

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and city today when Escape rooms first

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emerged they were really an assemblage

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of locks and keys and padlocks and a

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disused office

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space was there any Scenic attention to

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detail absolutely not but by the end you

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had an experience which you were like

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I've never really done anything like

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this before I came along really at the

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end of that wave where people were

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saying this is a great format but how do

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we do it better so taking the tricks of

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the trade of theater an immersive

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theater and smashing into Escape rooms

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and producing something that no one

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never really

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done Escape rooms aren't just about the

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Epic sets their games mimic real life

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Society is rif with puzzles and games

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and that's one thing you taught you

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taught to play and invent and create

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constantly and Escape rooms are a

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vehicle for doing that in a live setting

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with other people as your toys people

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learn through play they're not just

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passive participants they're the heroes

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in their own adventure so you always

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start off as a fish out of

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water I'm confused because you quite

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literally have no idea what's going on

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but over the course of an escape room

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you become the masters of it because you

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just keep on

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winning so what happens in your brain

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when you solve a puzzle it triggers the

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release