To get out of the room

The idea of games like escape the room (eng. "to get out of the room") is primarily associated with popular browser games in flash, in which you had to seek each other items to find out (many remember Crimson Room).

We live in a time when the ideas recently expressed in the literature, movies and computer games — get a life. The Americans are doing the exoskeleton based on the "Iron man", the movie "the Game" by David Fincher inspires the creation ARG, a "Fort Boyard", "Saw" technology and smart homes to build rooms of quests.

For the first time from the computer in reality this game was moved in 2006. A team of several people locked in a room, and they need to get out of there (usually one hour), opening caches, looking for clues, using found objects, computing codes and extracting keys. Very similar to a computer game, but in a real room with real objects.

The idea was in the air, so it is implemented in the United States and in Hong Kong at the same time. Article on Wikipedia says that some programmers have made escape room on motives of Agatha Christie's dostoprimechatelnosti Silicon valley, but I cannot find proof. In Hong Kong it was originally a campus student of the game. In 2008 some colleges even have teamed up to host a major game for 60 people.

But in 2007 — really "rushed". Japanese company SCRAP since held up to 200,000 people (including a large-scale game for a few hundred people in stadiums).

In the video you can see how crazy the Japanese. In General, it appears our domestic Running city, but the classic escape rooms have a SCRAP too. The photo at the beginning of lent as a time of such room.



As usual, the Japanese even made a reality show about these games, and in 2012, the SCRAP came to the United States. From 2008 to 2012 escape rooms have opened in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. With Hong Kong such companies more than five.

In 2011, escape the room appeared in Europe, and further developed independently of Asia. The pioneer was Hungarian Parapark company (they have unlike codified most of videos showing what awaits players in the room). Since then in Budapest there was about 10 different companies that offer the tourists and locals try to get out within the hour. According to Tripadviser, all this sights from the category of must-see.

In addition, Hungary's escape rooms is in the UK (London), Switzerland

In December 2012 the first escape room has opened in Moscow phobia.ru in the near future we should expect an opening in the other cities of Russia.

If material like it, I will continue to write about escape rooms.

Who was in the room outside of Russia, please, write your impressions in the comments.

Article based on information from habrahabr.ru