There’s very clearly something there that appeals to plenty of people – something that can convince a gaggle of friends to trade in the safety of their tabled pints to be voluntarily locked in a room. “It all sort of went from there” sums up the sprawl of escape rooms that friends, workplaces, and families alike have been drawn to over the years. From there, Hall’s passion for puzzles spiraled into bigger, “more intensive” team-based puzzles. The event was a turning point for Hall, who found that this “was sort of the first time I did think of myself as a puzzle person, though in truth I’d been solving puzzles for years”. That perception changed when she moved to Portland in 2010 and was introduced to a “puzzle pint” event where “you show up to just drink a beer and solve puzzles”. That was the thing I really liked about it, but I never really saw myself as a puzzle person.” The thing that I thought was really interesting about those was that they’re time-based, right? It’s a community coming together to solve this game, but the narrative is interactive and responsive to the audience. Hitting fast-forward, she explains that “in college, I got super into alternate reality games which introduced me to the puzzle genre. Sitting down to chat with NME, she explained that she’s always been “a puzzle and mystery lover” – all the way back to her passion for Nancy Drew at a young age. READ MORE: ‘Total War: Warhammer 2’ at four: from humble beginnings to one of the greatest strategy games ever createdĪdmittedly, Hall has carved out quite a specific niche.The book in question, Planning Your Escape, aims to pass on some of her escapist expertise to anyone looking to polish up their skills in the field (or room). She’s been there, done that, and quite literally wrote the book on it. If you’re new to my Channel please take a moment to hit subscribe to Notifications alright thank you all that already subscribe and check out my blog yay okay so my friends and I were at Rose City Comic Con and we were like we need an escape room play and we found this one and so we like took an Uber over so this is kind of dodgy looking area in the middle of nowhere Portland and it was awesome okay so the game is set in the 1950s it’s a two to six player game it’s very traditional and gameplay as far as puzzle style and structure um we had a blast uh my friends also love escape rooms and so we kind of blew through some of the puzzles we definitely had some struggles on our binding searching moments although one of my friends thankfully is much better at searching and finding than I am uh and uh we had a really good time the theme is a really fun 1950s like you’re a gum shoe you’re there trying to solve a murder what happened who done it uh it’s really fun in the way that they’ve Incorporated the theme into the puzzles there were some really fun things that I hadn’t seen quite like they did it before um I really really loved the use of lighting in one of the puzzles and how they did that and I also loved just how well they had decorated the room and Incorporated all of the set pieces and the props and stuff into the game in a very organic way overall really really fun um well thought out fun enough story you discover and unravel the story as you go and just a really good time so I hope you’ll go check them out I’ll put the link down in the description below thanks for watching you can see more at my blog thehauntgirl.On the topic of escape rooms – the mysterious venues that have popped up seemingly everywhere over the last few years – there are few as informed as Laura E. Hey everybody it’s Christine the haunt girl and today I am talking about film Noir The Case of the dark Rose an escape game at escape games PDX in Portland Oregon Opinions given by thehauntgirl are uniquely those of Christine & do not reflect the opinions of the escape game company. *Christine Barger (aka The Haunt Girl) became an escape room creator & owner in 2021 at Exit Game OC in Anaheim CA.
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