19/10/2018
Wellington now has its very own fully immersive and mechanical escape room. Escape Mate located in the heart of the city
has opened a new automated Spaceship escape game. This will be the second escape room in the country that has gone
hi-tech and have moved away from the basic structure of lock, boxes and keys to solve. In the tourism world, Escape Mate
Wellington is truly keeping up with technology and future trends.
Enter a real underground 1930’s bank vault to explore the SPACESHIP which has recently awoken, signalling the armada for
an impending invasion. You must work as a team to decrypt and solve all of the alien technology inside, solve the
mysteries, repair the ships engines and disable the signal that will doom the planet. In this mission you’ll need to
collaborate with your team and use your creative problem-solving skills to make it out in 60 minutes.
It’s funny at times when you look at Wellington City, and are amazed by the beauty of the tall buildings and
architecture or history of the CBD.
You almost forget what lies beneath the infrastructures and roads with endless amounts of cars on the street. The
unnoticed world that lies beneath are floors and floors of businesses or work places, this is where the true magic of
Escape mate happens.
They are literally in a basement, a few floors down in Aviation House, right in the CBD on 12 Johnston Street. A massive
bank vault accompanies them as they work away on briefing customers on how to ‘save the world’ through cracking codes
and puzzles in our themed rooms.
Eight stories below the hustle and bustle of the city life, also lies a workshop filled with random objects – some that
make no sense, but once pieced together with engineer support and researched professionals, a master piece emerges and
becomes the tardis of the Spaceship, the centre piece of a new themed escape game.
As you walk through the workshop doors you are greeted with wood chippings, off cuts of some sort of material, saw dust,
and best of all smiles from the Escape Mate team. The managing director differentiates Escape Mate from others by making
everything in house. That’s right absolutely EVERYTHING that can be built is made in the workshop.
It takes about a year to fully plan and implement a fully automated theme for a new Escape room. The mountains of hours
needed for the research, structure, planning, the intricacies of the codes and contraptions behind them, and the thought
process behind the story line.
That year has come to surface and now Wellington can claim their very own fully mechanical escape room.
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