Preview Soft Play Escape Room We have 2 major updates for you to preview Soft play Escape Room: PLAY… …Introducing our initial concepts for Brenda the Vendor – an artificial intelligence hint personality that gives you a treat every time you take a hint. She will be resident in the soft play escape room, PLAY and will be an amazingly interactive addition to the room. …and our first concepts for the PLAY experience. A fun-filled escape room packed with loads of awesome, juicy puzzling, interactivity and fun. Think rollers, travelator, rope swings, slides. Everything you could possibly want. SU ..read more

I am sure you have recently about the tragic fire that happened in an escape room in Poland as a result of negligence from the company, which resulted in the tragic loss of five lives. We want you to know that our thoughts are with the families and friends of those that lost their lives and want to reassure you all the existing precautions we had already taken prior to this stories release. FIRE RISK ASSESSMENTS Every company that owns a public building is legally obligated to have a fire risk assessment every year. We at Other World Escapes have conducted 2 for our Southampton branch and 1 Po ..read more

Some of you may have already played an escape room, and I’m hoping you were thinking it was a great escape room. For those that haven’t, I’ll briefly explain the concept. You enter a themed room as part of a team. You have an allotted time to either complete an objective or escape the room, sometimes both. Working with your team you’ll need to find clues and solve puzzles to reach the end goal. Sounds simple right? However it takes a lot of work to make an escape room, more so to make a great escape room. Here are some key components we like to consider when designing our escape rooms: CO ..read more

I’m sure the first thing you think about when leaving school or university for the summer is: what am I going to do with my time? To answer this, I’m going to tell you the health benefits of escape rooms. Wondering this? Look no further… So, I am going to give you 10 reasons why you have to play an escape room this summer. This blog post will provide you with an idea of one thing you can now do in Southampton. It brings your family and friends together in a cooperative, immersive and educational experience that is being enjoyed by people from all walks of life and all ages. What is an escape r ..read more

  I am sure you will agree with me when I say that it is very difficult to increase brand engagement.   Moreover, not only is brand engagement hard to increase, it is also hard to measure.   So, how do we exactly increase brand engagement?   I am going to give you one GREAT way to increase brand engagement in your escape room.   Let’s Get Emotional, Let’s Increase Brand Engagement   Humans are emotional animals. We constantly strive to feel a connection with everything we interact with. It’s in our genetic make up to make this emotional connection.   This is ..read more

Make Great Teams. Make Great Memories I am sure you will agree that deciding what to do for team building can be very challenging.   And we know that team building or team bonding events can be expensive. Or, they may not be very effective at actually building a team.   What if I told you that there is one activity that overshadows the rest for efficiently building a great communicative, collaborative and thriving team?    Some of you may have been set the task by your line manager to find the best team building activity. You may have a budget and criteria you have to ..read more

Choosing an escape room venue can be one of the most important parts of any escape game venture. Clearly, you don’t want to choose the wrong place. This could mean that a lot of money could be wasted unneccessarily. No-one wants to waste money and I am sure you don’t either. So, I’m sure you have loads of questions going through your head at the moment. Like: how do I pick the right one? How do you know that it is going to be future-proof? How do you know it will be a viable business? You are not alone in asking these questions. We asked these questions when deciding upon our first and second ..read more

Want to know how to succeed in a Kickstarter campaign? Then why not learn from where we went wrong. Although we didn’t reach our funding goal, we learned a lot from running our Kickstarter. These are lessons we learned that we will be implementing in our next years Kickstarter. This Kickstarter is yet to be announced, but will be one of the most unique and exciting projects we have seen in a number of years But for now, I am going to talk to you about 5 Kickstarter lessons learned, that you can use to help you be more effective in your Kickstarter. Also, how we will be incorporating these into ..read more

What Lies in the Future of Escape Rooms? Some of you may have been fortunate enough to go to Up The Game earlier this month. Some of you, like me, may have missed the opportunity. For those who are unaware, Up The Game is a large conference for escape game designers as well as enthusiasts. It’s the best event of its kind, with talks, workshops and demos from people at all levels of the industry. The main focus this year was “The Future of Experience” and that got me thinking. What lies in the future of escape rooms? I don’t know about you, but I feel like even though escape rooms have been aro ..read more