onstagepittsburgh.com: Bricolage and Enter The Imaginarium (ETI), leaders in interactive, narrative-driven entertainment, are excited to announce the grand opening of its latest escape room experience: The Mind’s Eye. This all-new adventure promises to push the boundaries of immersive gameplay, offering guests a thrilling, multi-sensory challenge unlike any escape room they’ve experienced before.
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I love escape rooms and this sounds so cool. I really love how immersive escape rooms are and as technology advances it seems that escape rooms continue to find really neat ways to implement this technology in their rooms. I recently went to an escape room where a puzzle combination was solved by tapping parts of a mural on a wall which had a combination and had some physical feedback when pressed. It was incredibly immersive to be able to actually interact with the environment around me and really added that extra piece of ‘magic’. I really think that the theme is interesting for this new escape room - the idea of a story based on the mind of a time traveling inventor sounds really fun. My goal is to make it out to an escape room in Pittsburgh at some point this year and this is sounding like an excellent candidate.
I love escape rooms. The emphasis on immersion and a new experience in this one sounds like it’ll be a really good one. The best rooms are ones with cool soundscapes, lighting, and environments. One thing that stood out to me is one of the key features is “there are no more locks to open”. I find this intriguing because I’ve done many escape rooms that felt like they were just opening lock after lock. It can be hard to stray away from locks, it’s very easy to hide a lock somewhere with a clue in it. It also makes it easy to ensure the story is moving linearly– you need clue a before you can unlock clue b. But an escape room without locks sounds like it’ll be a lot more story driven with more story related clues, which will be super fun to play.
I absolutely love escape rooms. I personally love puzzles and if you combine that with an interactive somewhat theatrical experience I have a blast. The Imaginarium has taken the idea of an escape room to the next level which I never thought was possible. Using projection mapping and state of the art technology to blur the line between reality and the escape room people will become more immersed in the imaginary world. Escape rooms have a tendency to feel almost repetitive when doing a couple puzzles then moving to the next room completing another couple puzzles and moving on to the next room and so on until the end. But when the escape room connects with the participants on a sensory level that repetitiveness disappears and people become fully immersed and committed to the escape room.
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