The creation of the Secret room escape game

In the closed "Chamber of Secrets," the door was littered with messy poker and broken bottles, furniture and books, a number of safe boxes to parse passwords, dim lights and fantastic music ... Not long ago, a "Detective" of the real version of the "Secret Room Escape" game in Chongqing University City Landing, this Test team cooperation, logical thinking and the ability to judge the practice of a very strong game once launched, it won the love of students and white-collar.

This trendy entrepreneurial project by Chongqing Electronic Engineering Vocational College of Yu Pu and Chongqing Normal University Long-kun jointly founded. Because of the common love detective movies and novels, they in a residential building to establish their own reality detective world, research password deciphering, design detection site, restore treasure path ... By virtue of the keen sense of smell of fresh things and persistent insistence, the success of the "Secret Room Escape" to the market.

The Chamber of Secrets escapes the team and the individual has to give force

With the "Secret Room Escape" in Chongqing's popular, the entrepreneurial project by the public and media attention, Yu Pu and Long-kun received various media interviews. They invited the Chinese Youth Daily reporter and 4 students from Chongqing Electronic Engineering vocational College to participate in the "crime scene," the theme of the game.

The rule of the game is this: the player is suddenly trapped in a room surrounded by a group of "hostages" like you. This is a homicide scene, the scene has a lot of clues and agencies, need to rely on your excellent team cooperation, using a variety of props to find clues, and finally find the door open the key to the door, in order to escape the Chamber of Secrets.

As Long-kun to the participants to tell the story background, the scene sounded suspense music, even the Chinese youth Daily reporter, including 6 "Hostages" by a big lock in the "Secret Room."

Previously unknown 6 people in such cases, the rapid formation of a team, the regional division of labor, split up to look for possible clues.

Paintings of Mona Lisa smiles, playing cards strewn on the floor, mirrors hanging on the wall, infrared laser lights hidden in boxes, messy bookcases and sofas ... From "Violet, who hold Cailian empty dance" poem Hint, to physics "refraction principle" of the inform, and then to the math problem deliberately embarrassed ... Finding a clue requires an effective logical analysis of the relevant knowledge to find the next clue.

The game process makes people feel nervous and excited, time unknowingly quickly past, 55 minutes later, the scene rang the countdown. At this point, the "Secret room" team only need to unlock the huge safe can take out the key to open the door, but what is the password?

Through the scene again carpet search and meticulous reasoning, the 6 team has explored 3 sets of passwords, one after the test, but failed, failed to escape the Chamber of Secrets.

Despite the failure to escape, participants said that within one hours, the concentration of attention, the ability to feel the magic of thinking, although failed, the process is very interesting, and afterwards still memorable. A fat boy wearing glasses even joked to reporters: "Although only completed 95%, but also enough to show that my IQ is very good, this can be compared to the house in the bedroom to play the game strong too much!"

Long-kun also to reporters concluded that the rate of this kind of game is very low, individuals and teams must be very to the force.

It is reported that the challenger to many groups of friends and the company's team, the former enhanced mutual trust, the latter to achieve the goal of training team spirit. At present, "Secret Room Escape" is also one of the preferred team training courses for many corporate organizations.

The wisdom of the new venture to fight hard

Such an interesting entrepreneurial project, two college students how to do it out?

"I as a foreigner, to take root in Chongqing, need very hard to do!" Long-kun exclaimed.

Sichuan people Long-kun and Shandong People Yu Pu are from the rural university students, the family is not rich let them in the university during the germination of the idea of entrepreneurship.

Yu Pu a year ago just graduated from Chongqing Electronic Engineering Vocational College computer Information management major, has done a lot of part-time work, in addition, keen to reason suspense detective novels, he spent a lot of time to see the reasoning novel, research password, do Sudoku games, focus on some of the latest information decryption. From reading a sophomore began, Yu Pu began to rent the school façade practice entrepreneurship, it is at that time, he met the current partner of the 21-year-old Long-kun. As a student of the School of Education and Science of Chongqing Normal University, Long-kun College has issued leaflets in the past 4 years, has been a campus agent, has sung in the bar, taught lessons in the piano.

Both are famous Japanese detective novelist Castle Peak of the super fans, for a long time, two people as long as together, will discuss "Conan" in the common methods of killing, novel layout, writing methods, password deciphering, the characteristics of the killer topics.

Two people rely on a variety of part-time, save 30,000 yuan start-up start-up funds, and based on the love of detective novels, they coincide to find an opportunity: The reality version of the "Secret Room Escape" although in the coastal big city hot abnormal, but in Chongqing local market vacancy. Two people started a reality version of the "Secret Room Escape" idea, and named "Detective." They rented the city a set of five rooms two halls of clear water room, a monthly rent of 1300 yuan, "Detective Secret Chamber Escape" officially appeared.

One months to earn back the cost, two months stable operation, three months someone to join ... When the Chinese youth Daily reporter asked their "business", Long-kun laughs, we spell wisdom more hard. Each game link design, all need to spend one or two weeks time, design scrutiny, make props, invite friends to play, repeated changes will be really launched.

Speaking of brand promotion, Long-kun mixed feelings. In order to let outsiders know and familiarize themselves with this new project, two people spent a lot of time to promote the early November 2012 start-up, every day 5 o'clock up to the university City of universities and colleges of the teaching building distribution leaflets, they choose in the students before class, secretly to every classroom, the leaflet placed in the desk, hoping to be found by students and read. Later, they began to try to work with college students and community organizations to publicize.

Media attention, word of mouth of the players, and two attempts to expand brand awareness have made the project's prospects more optimistic.

"If it is not to endure hardship, the escape of the Chamber of Secrets will not have such a good benefit today." "In their view, any undertaking must be willing to endure hardship and willing to think, want to succeed, will think and can endure hardship indispensable." Although it is only the first time to try the secret room design, in the layout is also slightly shabby, many props such as safes, torches, laser pens and the like are in small shops or online Amoy, but Yuhuapu said that they set their own puzzles can be unambiguous. Next, you will add a body such as a hydraulic door to enhance the fun of the game.