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BRIAN WARNER
Escape Room Tech 101
Summary: An overview of the kind of the most commonly used technology in escape room puzzles and where to buy it. We will cover all the basics, plus give you information on how to build a few simple puzzles to get you started.
Escape Room Tech 101
Summary: An overview of the kind of the most commonly used technology in escape room puzzles and where to buy it. We will cover all the basics, plus give you information on how to build a few simple puzzles to get you started.
DEREK PETIT
How to bring your escape game to life from A-Z
An intro that covers the basics of opening a room escape business.(need more)
GREG SALYERS
Add an escape game to your attraction: Use your existing assets to generate more revenue!
Learn how to design and build a year-round escape game using knowledge and skills you already have. (need more. What will you actually speak about?)
Add an escape game to your attraction: Use your existing assets to generate more revenue!
Learn how to design and build a year-round escape game using knowledge and skills you already have. (need more. What will you actually speak about?)
VINNIE INGALLINERA
Add a trailer-based, pop up escape game to your attraction
Tips on writing and building a trailer-based game to add to your attraction as an entry, exit, in-line or stand alone addition. (need more)
Add a trailer-based, pop up escape game to your attraction
Tips on writing and building a trailer-based game to add to your attraction as an entry, exit, in-line or stand alone addition. (need more)
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NATE MARTIN
Escape Games: Working with Brands, Film, and Corporations Open up your target market, increase revenue and create experiences backed by big budgets! This highly lucrative market that can work in addition to your on-site operations. This is an advanced level seminar providing a blueprint of the ins and outs and dos and don’ts of establishing a partnership and collaborating on a successful product. Starting Off – All the pre-work that needs done prior to putting pen to paper
BIO - Nate Martin Nate Martin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Puzzle Break, the oldest contemporary escape room company based in the United States. Under his leadership, Puzzle Break has opened rooms in its headquarters of Seattle, San Francisco, New York, the world’s first escape rooms aboard cruise ships, and several portable team experiences for players around the world. Puzzle Break has seven figure revenue with no debt or external funding. Nate's highly esteemed writings on the history of founding, running, and growing Puzzle Break have been the inspiration and roadmap for innumerable entrepreneurs. He gives regular talks on all aspects of the escape room industry and he maintains a blog on escape room design & entrepreneurship. His interviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, the New York Times, and countless other periodicals. Prior to Puzzle Break, Nate was a senior executive at Microsoft and Electronic Arts. He has shipped software used by billions of users as well as some of the most beloved video games of a generation. |
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JAMES BENNETT
Team Building: How to draw the corporate crowd Learn how to integrate team building into your escape game. Professional team building expert James Bennett (Firefly Team Events) shows you how to integrate team building principles into your escape game. Why Corporate wants Team Building -What is Team Building? ( Teamwork is not Teambuilding) -3 Reasons Corporate puts Team Building in the budget (solution, reinforcement, morale boost) -What’s the Benefit? What does Corporate expect? -Customer Service Expectations – (clarity, consistency, confidence) -Deliverables How Can an Escape Game Deliver Team Building? -Corporate vs Enthusiast/Recreational groups – What’s the Difference? -Creating meaning for corporate groups – The Debrief -Solutions – Partners, tools, and limits Where do I find more Corporate Clients? -Understanding which corporate customer segment you want -Sources of Referral Business – DMCs, Incentive Houses, Hotels – Who is already talking to your clients -Who are you competing with? (bowling, brick/mortar activities) -What’s it worth??? BIO James has made a career of reaching people through laughter, adventure, and challenge. Through his work as a team building facilitator, emcee, and business owner he's helped countless people find value in shared group experiences. A passion for games, creativity, technology, and new ideas has helped him create innovative new team building products. As an entrepreneur he maintains strong ties to the start-up community and is a familiar face at local hackathons and start-up contests. His years of experience in the team building industry have created opportunities to share his skill and enthusiasm on the national stage. He believes that everyone needs more Play in their lives. Are you ready to play? |
MARTY PARKER
Create an immersive, highly reviewed Gen 1 game by using actors instead of expensive tech
There are numerous advantages to adding actors to an escape room, namely being able to provide a Hollywood experience without the expensive build out of high tech rooms. By properly adding actors to a gen one room you can provide an amazing $78 ticket value for $28. Learn how one of the pioneers of the escape room industry uses actors to deliver unique personalized experiences that constantly receive rave reviews.
Create an immersive, highly reviewed Gen 1 game by using actors instead of expensive tech
There are numerous advantages to adding actors to an escape room, namely being able to provide a Hollywood experience without the expensive build out of high tech rooms. By properly adding actors to a gen one room you can provide an amazing $78 ticket value for $28. Learn how one of the pioneers of the escape room industry uses actors to deliver unique personalized experiences that constantly receive rave reviews.
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Nicole Ginsburg
Should I Open An Escape Game? What you need to know about 5 Min, 10 Min & Hour Long Games A practical, 101 class for beginners that outlines the basics of adding an escape game to your location. We'll examine the financials, day-to-day and reality of operations of 5 minute, 10 minute, 15 minute, 30 minute and hour long games. This seminar provides an overview to help you figure out if this is the right industry for you and the game length that will help your business monetize most effectively. This class will also help those who need direction on expanding their budding escape games. Bio Nicole Ginsburg is the co-owner and creator of Escape the Estate, Central New York's first escape room. Nicole holds a degree in marketing from Columbia College and has over 20 years of experience in the performing arts and entertainment industry; almost half of this time has been spent in her role as Production Director for Frightmare Farms, one of the most critically acclaimed haunted attractions in Upstate New York. Nicole introduced the escape room industry to the region by utilizing existing space at the previously-existing haunted attraction. At that time, Nicole was one of very few pioneers attempting this technique. Escape the Estate, with its theatrically-detailed sets, was a runaway hit. Within a matter of weeks, the Frightmare Farms location had sold out its available bookings for their entire season. Fueled by this success, Nicole and her team opened a second location in just six months, crafting whole-new escape rooms in a shopping mall. Since then she has helped with games ranging from 3 minutes to Mega- games lasting a few hours. Because of her work, Nicole has caught the attention of numerous media outlets in the area. In December 2015, she was named one of the "9 Most Creative People in Central New York." Soon after, she was featured in an article about women in business, discussing her contributions to the often male-dominated industries of escape rooms and haunted attractions. Nicole has presented at educational institutions, universities, and conferences on topics ranging from young entrepreneurship to surviving a zombie outbreak. |
Shawn Fischtein
10 things you can do to be gen 2: A simplistic guideline in evolving your escape room design.
Learn the tenants of a Gen 2 escape game, including game play and immersive technique including VR..... (need more content and better title)
10 things you can do to be gen 2: A simplistic guideline in evolving your escape room design.
Learn the tenants of a Gen 2 escape game, including game play and immersive technique including VR..... (need more content and better title)
Shawn Fischtein
Design for Escape Games: How to create and build a top-rated experience
From one of Canada's leading game designers, learn about escape game design and game play elements. (need more content and better title)
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ELISABETH GARSON
20 Hard-hitting, “Need-To-Know” Room Escape Owner Tips A dense, fast moving class that boils it all down to our Top 20 tips, followed by ten minutes of Q/A.This class contains 20 vital secrets from the Steel Owl team for implementing and running a successful room escape game, broken down into quardrants including Operations, Advertising, Customer Service, Booking, Game Master Role, Game Play and more. In sixty minutes, you'll get some of our best kept tips including Q&A access to one of the industry's top game masters, Krystle Griffin. Need by 12/15 - Seminar title &topic description DONE Need by 1/5/17 - Photo & Bio DONE How to create advertising for your room escape...that works! (2 hour workshop) An in-depth intro seminar that covers all the types of advertising, from print and web... to social media and AdWords — designed for anyone that's unsure about where to put their advertising dollars. In this 2-hour workshop, the class will learn about ithe various types of advertising, get tips on budget advertising, create concepts, learn how to approach target audiences — and write benefit driven copy with in-class exercises.There is no single answer for advertising your room escape, but in taking this class, students will get a snapshot of how advertising professionals think. In the end, you'll become equipt with knowledge to help make decisions for their 2017 fiscal year. This is an extended version of the seminar given at CREC. BIO - Elisabeth Garson Steel Owl is led by Elisabeth Garson, Creative Director for Steel Owl Games & Steel Owl Tech. The group is famed for "Escape The 1980s" and is creating additional, UX based escape games for large companies including The Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia PA. The company's initiatives have attracted great deal of press, investor interest, tech requests and has ultimately spawned the birth of Steel Owl Tech, producers of the industry's most advanced telephone game prop. Prior to Steel Owl, Garson worked Advertising and UX (user experience) for 20 years as a Creative Director, with a focus on branding and experience. Her clients included large companies (Comcast, Advanta, Xfinity) to medium sized business and start-ups. From craft beer…to cable TV — all of Garson’s creative work explored consumer experience, from the perspective of targeted audience research. This knowledge acted as the primary building block for the Steel Owl business model, including game development, company branding, and puzzles to create player engagement. In addition to her advertising work, Garson created several team-oriented events, and experiences in the Philadelphia area including the sold-out “Dating Game Live” (set up like the 1980s show) and a sold out “Happening Event” where participants purchased tickets to something that was happening (but they didn’t know what it was). She was also the co-creator of an independent short film that created outlandish experiences for unsuspecting deliverymen. She’s the concept founder of The Philadelphia Arts Market, which is still in the process of development, and on-hold for the moment. Over the years, Garson’s endeavors have attracted press from The Philadelphia Inquirer, CBS 3, KYW News Radio, Time Magazine and dozens of others. |
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JOHN DENLEY
How to Become a Success in The Escape Room Industry and Stay That Way! If you are just looking to break in this booming business or are running and existing Escape Room of your own, you cannot afford to miss this class! If you are a haunter and “on the fence” whether to take the plunge, you already have the tools and experience to do this. I’ll show you how to do it right the first time and add big dollars to your bottom line. In this class, we will cover the following 1) Choosing the right name and theme for your Escape Room and the impact it has. 2) How much space do you really need...and what do I charge? 3) How much do I need to spend? 4) The different types of escape rooms and how to decide which one is right for you? Locking the door vs. not locked! 5) How to bullet-proof you Escape Room. Design flaws to consider before construction 6) Why some Escape Game continuously book solid? 7) What make a great Escape Room? 8) Simple and effective ways to break-away from your competition and be the Escape Room everyone’s talking about. 9) The various types of puzzles and clues 10) Examples of “real puzzle designs” that you can make and utilize for under $100.00 11) How to make your customers happy, word of mouth is “so” important. 12) The most effective ways of advertising your Escape Room. 13) Additional ways to make more money with your Escape Room. An overview of the kind of tech used in room escape games. Learn about x, y and z, Gen 1 and Gen 2 tech — get tips and learn affordable ways to enhance your game with tech. NEED MORE Need by 12/15 - Seminar title & topic description Need by 1/5/17 - Photo & Bio |
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How to create advertising for your room escape...that works!
An in-depth intro seminar that covers all the types of advertising, from print and web... to social media and AdWords — designed for anyone that's unsure about where to put their advertising dollars. In this 2-hour workshop, the class will dig into the various types of advertising, get tips on budget advertising, create concepts for websites and logos — and write benefit driven copy with in-class exercises.There is no single answer for advertising your room escape, but in taking this class, students will get an snapshot of how ad agencies think and be equipt with knowledge to help them make decisions for their 2017 fiscal year. This is an extended version of the seminar given at CREC.
How to create advertising for your room escape...that works!
An in-depth intro seminar that covers all the types of advertising, from print and web... to social media and AdWords — designed for anyone that's unsure about where to put their advertising dollars. In this 2-hour workshop, the class will dig into the various types of advertising, get tips on budget advertising, create concepts for websites and logos — and write benefit driven copy with in-class exercises.There is no single answer for advertising your room escape, but in taking this class, students will get an snapshot of how ad agencies think and be equipt with knowledge to help them make decisions for their 2017 fiscal year. This is an extended version of the seminar given at CREC.
LONG DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
How to Become a Success in The Escape Room Industry and Stay That Way!
If you are just looking to break in this booming business or are running and existing Escape Room of your own, you cannot afford to miss this class! If you are a haunter and “on the fence” whether to take the plunge, you already have the tools and experience to do this. I’ll show you how to do it right the first time and add big dollars to your bottom line.
In this class, we will cover the following
1) Choosing the right name and theme for your Escape Room and the impact it has.
2) How much space do you really need...and what do I charge?
3) How much do I need to spend?
4) The different types of escape rooms and how to decide which one is right for you? Locking the door vs. not locked!
5) How to bullet-proof you Escape Room. Design flaws to consider before construction
6) Why some Escape Game continuously book solid?
7) What make a great Escape Room?
8) Simple and effective ways to break-away from your competition and be the Escape Room everyone’s talking about.
9) The various types of puzzles and clues
10) Examples of “real puzzle designs” that you can make and utilize for under $100.00
11) How to make your customers happy, word of mouth is “so” important.
12) The most effective ways of advertising your Escape Room.
13) Additional ways to make more money with your Escape Room.
How to Become a Success in The Escape Room Industry and Stay That Way!
If you are just looking to break in this booming business or are running and existing Escape Room of your own, you cannot afford to miss this class! If you are a haunter and “on the fence” whether to take the plunge, you already have the tools and experience to do this. I’ll show you how to do it right the first time and add big dollars to your bottom line.
In this class, we will cover the following
1) Choosing the right name and theme for your Escape Room and the impact it has.
2) How much space do you really need...and what do I charge?
3) How much do I need to spend?
4) The different types of escape rooms and how to decide which one is right for you? Locking the door vs. not locked!
5) How to bullet-proof you Escape Room. Design flaws to consider before construction
6) Why some Escape Game continuously book solid?
7) What make a great Escape Room?
8) Simple and effective ways to break-away from your competition and be the Escape Room everyone’s talking about.
9) The various types of puzzles and clues
10) Examples of “real puzzle designs” that you can make and utilize for under $100.00
11) How to make your customers happy, word of mouth is “so” important.
12) The most effective ways of advertising your Escape Room.
13) Additional ways to make more money with your Escape Room.