ESCAPE ROOM LA

The Theatre

Role:

Team Lead

Game Design - CAD Design - Programming - Electronics - Physical Fabrication

In past years, my business The Build Shop has worked with several escape rooms around Los Angeles providing our unique combination of design expertise and physical fabrication.  For Escape Room LA we worked with them to craft several electronic puzzle boxes for their release of the room titled “The Theatre”.  The puzzles included a stage light control board that would digitally control smart lights throughout the room, an illuminated sound board, and a mask table that would detect the correct placement of four masks

We worked hand in hand with the owner of the escape room to design these puzzles from the ground up, starting with his general premise for the puzzles, and helped to further define the UX interaction and puzzle design for the players.  For the stage light control board and sound board we constructed digital vector files to specification for laser cut construction, graphic design for pleasing aesthetics and did in-shop assembly.  The stage lighting and sound board puzzles have custom built electronic circuits controlled by python code on a raspberry pi platform, and control smart lights through OSC.  For the mask table we provided guidance and specifications to the building contractors constructing the table to fit the puzzle design, then fit it with a custom electronic circuit to detect when the masks were placed on the table in the correct sequence.