Holiday Escape
A collaborative, puzzle-based interactive installation themed as an escape room. Designed, built, and ran as a class project.
Year Active: 2021
Holiday Escape is a 30-minute experience for groups of people where the goal is to leave or escape the locked room by solving a series of puzzles. This project is a class project of IMGD 5300 Design of Interactive Experiences. We worked as a team of 16 and spent 2 months to design, build, and run the escape room.
As the lead designer (“Puzzlemaster”), I led puzzle design and iteration, built and tested puzzle prototypes collected and analyzed playtest feedback.
The Story
You are boarding the train for your holiday tour of Santa’s toy shop, but something is afoot… the conductor can’t seem to get the doors to open. Upon successfully boarding the train, are greeted by a message from The Elves, who have rebelled and hijacked the train after tired of years of unsatisfactory working conditions making toys for the shop. If the train reaches its destination, you will be turned into elves and forced to take their place in the workshops for all eternity!
If players fail, they are “turned into elves” and wear elf hats for final photo. If players succeed, the elves unionize and improve their working conditions without capturing the players.
