Escape room blog

As a business owner of an escape room it's normal that when we want to hire the best we already have an idea of what that should be. And to be truthful, it's often going to be pretty unrealistic. Your ideal candidate is a people person who has the skills of Superman, as well as a will to go as quickly as a Formula One driver. We want someone who is mindful of others all the time and is able to kno

Traditionally, the escape room game industry started by basing itself in buildings that had been proposed for the gameplay. With owners concentrating on keeping the costs as low as humanly possible, you’ll find that many escape room businesses are working out of basements. On the whole, these are the cheapest work spaces on the industrial property market place. But since Covid-19 introduced the id

Since their inception around 20 years ago, the escape room business has been booming across the world. Steaming through 2018 and 2019 many thought that the escape room genre would be unable to dodge the recession. But most businesses managed to stay afloat and come through pretty much unscathed. Nevertheless, in some ways the recession did force owners to rethink their strategies and introduce mor

One of the many problems of having an escape room business is that the owner will often only concentrate on the gaming experience. This is really about the mechanics of the gameplay, the puzzles and the clues, and the decoration. But one thing they often fail to consider is the actual customer experience. It’s easy to become blinkered with all the details and forget how the whole experience will b

Any company that's trying to recruit remotely is going to come up against a number of problems. Thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses are having to look at new ideas and practical solutions. For Royal Caribbean Cruisers, they opted for something totally new, escape room games. And the whole process came about almost by accident.

As with all things in life, when things are going well then you feel invincible. This holds true when playing an escape room game. You and your team are steaming ahead, solving all the clues and working out the solutions to all the puzzles in super quick time, and the game is progressing very well against the approaching time limit. And then suddenly, without warning, you are unable to solve any o

Imagine turning up for a job interview and instead of the long wait to be interviewed, or being asked to talk about your past career challenges, you are unceremoniously ushered into a darkened room. Maybe handcuffed and hooded! We’re not quite sure that’s legal, but you get the point.

Over time, the ideas behind corporate team-building have changed significantly, though the myths of what team-building is about still persists. Today, we're going to have a look at the validity of some of these out-dated ideas about the content and rle team-building can play within a company.

A great escape room experience is one where a feeling of growing intercity along with urgency has been created through both the initial narrative as well as the atmospheric rooms themselves. Your 60 minutes have just started and you find yourself in a totally unfamiliar setting, and though it's not a life and death situation, at times it really feels as though it is.

If you're looking to pass some time playing games on your Android phone, you could certainly do a lot worse than by playing online escape room games. The idea is that you’ll find yourself needing to escape, from either a room or a certain situation.

If you are seeing undesirable outcomes, then don't examine the team who produced them, but examine the system that created them in the first place. You need to be able to separate what you want to believe from the real evidence.

We all have felt that awkward silence that seems to last for eternity when a manager asked for feedback. Everyone stares into the depths of their coffee cup and says a tiny prayer that the manager will just give up and go away.