Saturday, July 16, 2016
We go inside the escape-room phenomenon
Art Reviews + Features | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: We nearly escaped. My friend and I were trying to decipher the final riddle of an ancient Egyptian tomb before our oxygen supply ran out. We had discovered secrets, solved brain-teasers and connected clues regarding an intrepid explorer’s lasting mystery, surrounded by artifacts and hieroglyphics. But time had expired. Then the co-founder of Escape Room Pittsburgh entered and told us we didn’t make it out of Tomb Explorer.
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It is so cool how collaborative activities are worked into creative experiences. The desire that people have developed to have experiences that challenge a part of them and bond them closer to friends and family. We are in an age in which it is no longer considered satisfying to sit somewhere for three hours with only a static environment. Being engaged and involved in our environments is an increasingly popular desire. We want to be in stimulating spaces with challenges and interactive components. We have recently seen this explosion of interest surrounding interactivity and virtual realities in the Pokémon game. The idea of making the environment competitive gives people the drive to return to the spaces and improve. We have the technology to make these escape rooms develop beyond simple puzzle rooms by making them into a completely different reality that has the ability to keep up with competitor’s brains.
Escape rooms are really interesting. I first got introduced to something like this on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, where they had to find keys to escape a room. Amanda (DP Counselor) told us about a project she did similar to this, however I don’t think it was an escape room. About the working under stress part, I do work better under stress. Most parents and teachers would say differently, but when under stress, I’m forced to get the work done faster and more efficiently. The escape part of it wouldn’t work for me though. I think I would just freeze up and wait it out. The cool thing is that the people controlling it are watching, so they technically have control over what you and your teammates do. In a way it’s kind of like the marshmallow challenge. It forces collaboration and team building. It’s cool that people are thinking of new and inventive ways of collaboration.
The Escape Room is definetly a big hit in Pittsburgh, teens, and my group of friends. I was going to go to this about 2 months ago but they messed up my scheduling and I couldn't go. The workers there aren't the greatest however, everyone that goes there says it's amazing. It forces you to work more collaboratively especially when it's with people that you don't know. And it also gives you a good idea of what type of person you are in challenging, high-pressure situations. i also think the CMU professor's idea of having a virtual Escape Room is a fantastic idea. It will be a much efficient and accessible way of being apart of this exciting game. Every friend of my say they really enjoy the Escape Room and I think it's something everyone should try.
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