Escape Room

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Escape room is a type of puzzle solving game. honestly you're probably better off reading wikipedia for the definition/context. The term can be used for both in-person games and video games, and the two ?seem to? have distinct fandoms.

Format seems to have came from TV shows such as Now Get Out Of That, Fort Boyard and The Crystal Maze . It was a video game format first, in-person Wikipedia:Escape rooms post-date and were inspired by Wikipedia:Escape room video games such as Behind Closed Doors and Crimson Room.

Escape rooms and Fandom:

• people are fans *of escape rooms* as an activity. Both going to lots of in person escape rooms, following particular companies/creators, sharing scores/solve times, stuff like that
• (and for the video game ones you get video game fandoms/genre fandom)
• people make fandom-themed escape rooms (e.g. Escape from the Walled City, ^{Archived version}, and Attack on Titan-themed escape room that toured several US cities in 2015)

Video Game Escape Rooms

Online Escape Games:

• Behind Closed Doors (1988)
• Myst (1993)
• MOTAS (2001) (Wikipedia link)
• Crimson Room (2004)

Earliest example online is BCD, Myst popularised the genre, MOTAS was the first to use the term, Crimson Room really popularised the genre & was more widely talked about.

Popular sites for gaming are EscapeGames24 and Gamershood. When a game was released there would be a host of players in the forums or comment sections to give each other hints if stuck or try to work through puzzles together, making a single player pc game more collaborative

In person Escape Room fandom

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Escape Rooms as a medium for fanac

• themed rooms
• ??other???