New Zealand's very first fully automated escape room
19/10/2018
Wellington now has it's very own high-tech, fully automated escape room. Escape Mate located in the heart of the city and their brand new game, the "Spaceship"has just landed. It's featuring spectacular game designs, nonlinear game structures, and next level electronics, including physical sensors, light sensors, interactive props; - all triggered by player interaction.
These games are the first escape rooms in the country that has gone hi-tech and have moved away from the basic structure of lock, boxes and keys to solve.
Escape Mate implements all their previous experience, as well as the latest technology and future trends when it comes to their game designs.
You
almost forget what lies beneath the infrastructures and
roads with endless amounts of cars on the street. The
unnoticed world that lies beneath are floors and floors of
businesses or work places, this is where the true magic of
Escape mate happens.
They are literally in a basement, a
few floors down in Aviation House, right in the CBD on 12
Johnston Street. A massive bank vault accompanies them as
they work away on briefing customers on how to ‘save the
world’ through cracking codes and puzzles in our themed
rooms. Eight stories below the hustle and bustle of the
city life, also lies a workshop filled with random objects
– some that make no sense, but once pieced together with
engineer support and researched professionals, a master
piece emerges and becomes the tardis of the Spaceship, the
centre piece of a new themed escape game. As you walk
through the workshop doors you are greeted with wood
chippings, off cuts of some sort of material, saw dust, and
best of all smiles from the Escape Mate team. The managing
director differentiates Escape Mate from others by making
everything in house. That’s right absolutely EVERYTHING
that can be built is made in the workshop. It takes about
a year to fully plan and implement a fully automated theme
for a new Escape room. The mountains of hours needed for the
research, structure, planning, the intricacies of the codes
and contraptions behind them, and the thought process behind
the story line. That year has come to surface and now
Wellington can claim their very own fully mechanical escape
room. END
Enter a real underground 1930’s
bank vault to explore the SPACESHIP which has recently
awoken, signalling the armada for an impending invasion. You
must work as a team to decrypt and solve all of the alien
technology inside, solve the mysteries, repair the ships
engines and disable the signal that will doom the planet. In
this mission you’ll need to collaborate with your team and
use your creative problem-solving skills to make it out in
60 minutes.
It’s funny at times when you look at
Wellington City, and are amazed by the beauty of the tall
buildings and architecture or history of the CBD.