ESCAPE ROOM Design
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The Holy Mountain Trailer Music, Edited by FoxMiao
Escape Room Design
In the 2023 Fall, I took a class named “Escape Room Design.”
I get to work with four teammates and create this scary Escape Room in only 14 weeks, and the size of the room is a tiny cube.
I worked as a puzzle designer, and also the story.
The masked man on the right is me(FoxMiao)
Design docs from week 1 - 3
We decided to switch the theme to “Evil Cult”; luckily, we could still use many of the puzzles and scary plots we had designed.
We begin to place all the puzzles into the empty “Cube.” We have to find out the best placement for each puzzle. All the puzzles were designed to use all three walls, and even the more “empty” center place.
We first spent three weeks thinking about an escape room where players got kidnapped in an Egyptian lab.
We had a crazy idea of using a mirror to reflect lights, bring a dead body alive, or even perform facial recognition.
Then we realized the room was getting too complex, and it couldn’t be done with the budget and time we had.
The first few puzzles and the main decoration get playtested and confirmed during the process.
After week 5, we believe is enough pre-production, and it is time to put everything together, at a good production level, with only 9 weeks left.
