Lessons from Escape Rooms: Designing for the Real World and VR

In this 2017 GDC session, escape room designer Laura E. Hall discusses the design fundamentals and structures necessary for creating real-world experiences that offer not only entertainment, but create immersion and transportation for players in order to understand how "physical play" can be a foundation for virtual reality design and beyond.
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[@superescaperoom991]

We also create escape rooms all over the world. It's really a difficult work - to plan everything, create a story and puzzles for it so that everything works together.

[@LionTree]

Great talk and still relevant 4 years on!

[@samuellionel4364]

sorry to be so off topic but does anybody know a method to log back into an Instagram account?
I was stupid forgot my login password. I would love any help you can offer me!

[@samuellionel4364]

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Seems to take quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

[@samuellionel4364]

@Eden Ronald it worked and I actually got access to my account again. I am so happy!
Thank you so much, you really help me out :D

[@edenronald8991]

@Samuel Lionel glad I could help =)

[@BologneyT]

That stamps puzzle is genius

[@ZoidbergForPresident]

Interesting.

[@davisestherrose5713]

I really wish this video had closed captioning :-(

[@tutucox]

dude I've seen a lot of chicks giving wonderful talks about game design here in gdc but laura its surreal . bravo! mega thumbs up

[@hennke3]

Great talk! Next time though, please check the sound to avoid the feedback...

[@hamuArt]

12 hour constant game on VR?
Didn't he have to pee? Wasn't he thirsty? or he was an android....