Gadgetory

I've been to a couple of escape rooms but I always find myself wondering how do these things get put together so I took two of my friends Jess and Stephanie to escape from LA to solve that puzzle hello ladies are we ready to go okay so grab your stuff and follow me today we are doing the alchemist escape room which apparently will involve us saving humanity and going back in time or as I like to call it Tuesday this is a gorgeous escape room already I need to talk to the madman who put all this together I'm John Hennessy I am the creator of escape room LA I grew up playing cd-rom-based video games you know miss this guy just became my new best friend I love a game where you find yourself in a strange environment and you don't really have clear direction about what to do or where to start okay are you ready to open the scroll you've never played an escape room for just come with an open mind and be ready to talk out loud and think out loud oh it's like it's just you're not using your phone you're not using technology when people finally see the solution it's just like this oh my god and that's that's the best feeling to see an interior secret door leading into an alchemists lab the tale is all this time okay oh wow we walk into a hallway with candles and it's dark and literally that's all I want in my apartment we do work with a theatrical CNH designer you know so we kind of work together to figure out how these things are actually going to get built and how they're going to work and how they're going to last for a game after game after game day after day after day only better or air like the colors water fire air air earth we find heart captain planets going to show up there's a lock here with water cinnamon bark they smell let me out they all my smells Oh wake up cinnamon cinnamon okay it smells like quick read I have to admit using your sense of smell not something I've ever experienced before in an escape room but my nose is up to the task eucalyptus leave it you feeling that I'm smelling shy I think you might be right ok ok so yellow w you I'm having a really hard time telling the difference between all the liquids I thought I knew it lavender smelled like but right now I have no idea that's knowing it to keep our noses don't work in the key for an escape room that is not horror-themed there sure seems to be a lot of jump scares here and letting our motor vendors oh great what is right it's gotta go in there now we can move on to the last puzzle in the room fire we're gonna I'm gonna put some fire here in post right no we can't do that no oh it's just says hit the fire monster that's just good life advice so when we knew we were gonna have a laser in this room we knew we had to make it awesome so you don't I'm not sure if we're gonna make it to point the laser into the gargoyle it's really shaky like fire we did it we beat the alchemist but after talking to John and Steph it was pretty obvious that creating the experience of an escape room is a lot more difficult and challenging than coming in and just solving the puzzle like we did there like real-life point-and-click adventure games I mean it's like being in a video game but at the end of the day us one escape room