The MIT Game Lab, in affiliation with Red Bull, is holding our first ever Escape Room Game Jam!
In this 48-hour design challenge, participant teams will work to create puzzles and games to be played within a pop-up escape room. Teams will be formed by the end of the first day of the jam, but participants are allowed to pre-form teams before the Jam itself.
Our Theme for the Jam will be to create an escape room based around a moment in a upcoming film. This is a judged game jam ??? winning participants will be selected and will receive a trip to Comic-Con 2016 (tickets, flights, and hotel included).
What is an Escape Room?
Real-life room escape games are a type of physical adventure game in which a group of people are ???locked??? in a room with other participants and have to use elements of the room to solve a series of puzzles, find clues, and escape the room within a set time limit. Some games include sub-plots, other are just puzzle oriented. Players must be observant and use their critical thinking skills to escape the room. Other inspirations include adventure board games and movies. For our Game Jam, we hope participants work within a mix of virtual and non-digital formats.