Escape-rooms and quests in reality - a new type of game for geeks

History h4> Construction gameplay tasks around "to get out of a locked room" embodied in various ways. One of the first, perhaps, was the text adventure Behind The Closed Doors 1988. With the proliferation of Flash technology the opportunity to simply create a small game that led to the fact that in 2001 there was a game MOTAS (it is up to still alive, you can play by clicking on the link), and in 2004 left the game, which has become in a sense, canonical representative of the genre - Crimson Room (in it, you can play, but can not pass - is needed to pass the code from the developer, which does not work). If you are interested - have a website with large selection of games of this type .
A few years later there was an offshoot of the genre - the task of "get out of the real room." The first game of this type is called Original Piece 2006, which was invented in Silicon Valley. In 2007-2008, the Japanese Takao Kato invented Real Escape Game , which is widely spread throughout Asia - Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore. But in recent years, games have become widely circulated in Russia. About the technical aspects of the implementation of games wrote Habré , have Review publication , but it is, unfortunately, was buried in the hub," I PR "and is not even search on the site.
It seems that Asia continues to lead in the prevalence of this genre - there is even filmed reality show . And if you understand English, you can see the funny psychological classification of players who have already done:

Idea h4> Concept escapes showroom is based the following ideas:

• The team players, usually 2-4 people
• For a limited period of time, usually 60 minutes
• Trying to get out of the closed room
• Solving the puzzle by solving ciphers and mining quest items.
  Advantages:
  
  1. High atmospheric.
  2. Work head combined with perturbation of the hands and feet (to climb on / under the table, to probe the walls, floor and ceiling).
  3. Work command can be used for team building. Disadvantages:
     
     1. Zero repleyabiliti. Re-take the same room does not make sense.
     2. The time limit is a significant probability of loss. Some it may upset.
        

        Personal experience h4> On the New Year's weekend my wife and I decided to go on a quest «Trap Howard» . In the story, Говард Volovitts missed EVA key to the airlock. Backup equipment is in his laboratory in the world, and the players play the role of a hapless astronaut friends, frantically searching for the key that can unlock the gateway and save Howard.
        
        
        
        Probably sky map was the last straw for the decision, "I want to try!» I>
        
        
        
        Being a geek uporotyh than the creators of the game, I spent a few minutes thinking "why the formula of attraction between two bodies illustrates the flight of the rocket? Where the law of conservation of momentum or Tsiolkovsky rocket equation? » I>
        
        
        
        The screen below is built on mega habrapublikatsii . Curiously, he works noticeably worse that publication promises i>
        
        
        
        Personally, I like the lack of locks in the classic sense - continuous actuators, contacts and sensors that respond to different ranges of radiation i>
        
        We are not saved by Howard (perhaps he should take advantage of the Russian module "Pierce" instead of US "Quest" experience "Gravity" with the hit inside the ISS through problems no one there), but discovered an exciting new genre of games and have received quite a good number of pleasant emotions.
        
        

        Conclusion h4> For me it was a great surprise to learn that in Ufa have already more than a dozen escapes rooms < / a>. It is logical to assume that in other cities over one million people have about the same amount, and in MCK them for a hundred.
        A simple Internet search proves this - there are many atmospheric pictures:
        
        
        Offer in the comments to share their experiences, necessarily indicating the city to your countrymen were able to learn about the interesting quests.
        
        UPD. In Twitter prompted search resource rooms by city , could that someone would be helpful.
        
        Source: geektimes.ru/post/244021/