Escape This’s puzzle technicians design, build, modify and maintain the electronics behind its puzzles, special effects and theatre, and the company runs its bookings and games on a system of its own.
In short: Escape This’s puzzle technicians build and program the controllers behind its puzzles and effects on Arduino and Raspberry Pi, and the company runs every booking and game on ER-OS, its own booking and game system.
The Wizard’s ChamberRunes that glow from inside the stone, and iron lanterns lit as if by magic.
High NoonThe Sheriff’s safe, with the dial every outlaw in the room wants to turn.
EntombedA blue ankh that glows in its case, and hieroglyphs that light up beside a burning torch.
HitmanThe stalled lift, floor indicator and buttons included, and a torch that glows blue in the dark.CannibalA steel lock panel set into the wall, and lighting that turns the whole room blood red.
Zombie ApocalypseA dosage panel with time and quality readouts, a red LED countdown and a caged Danger panel.Buried AliveA numbered keypad set into the coffin itself, and night-vision CCTV watching every move.
AsylumA button marked Therapy Transmission, and patient files that only give up their secrets under ultraviolet light.
Bank HeistA red BUSTED! light box waiting on the vault wall, and a wall light over a Maintenance notice.
The InstituteA hand-labelled fuse box with glowing green fuses, and a hand-print scanner on the wall.Captain NemoA control panel of gauges, switches and glowing tubes, and a green-lit radio station.
PiratesBrass ship’s gears that turn, and a treasure chest that glows red when the moment comes.Every world the factory makes is playing at an Escape This centre in Perth, Sydney or Melbourne.
Escape This’s audio production team records and mixes each world’s soundtrack, sound effects and professional voice-overs at Escape Box, and sets up the sound system that plays them, so the music and effects come from the right places in the room. Audio system setup and design is part of the puzzle technicians’ trade too.
Controllers that Escape This’s puzzle technicians build and program themselves. They work on Arduino and Raspberry Pi boards, code in C++ and Python, design and solder their own circuit boards, and connect a world’s puzzles with Cat 5/6 cabling and Ethernet and serial links, in the Escape Box workshop.
Escape This’s own puzzle technicians. Working alongside the Props Master, the set builders and the creative director, they design, build, modify, improve and maintain the electronics behind every puzzle, special effect and piece of theatre in an Escape This world, at Escape Box and on site at the centres.
Through hidden electronics. Escape This’s puzzle technicians wire locks, lights, sensors and sound into each world, so a door can open by itself, a light can change or an object can answer when a team gets something right. The Escape Box breakdowns show examples, such as Captain Nemo’s control panel and Entombed’s glowing ankh.
ER-OS is Escape This’s own booking and game system. It takes every booking for every Escape This world at every centre, records each game as it is played and feeds the live leaderboards on escaper.com.au and the statistics on escapethat.com.au, so the results players see come straight from the games.
From ER-OS. When an Escape This game ends, the game master records in ER-OS whether the team escaped, its time and the clues it used. Those records update the leaderboards on escaper.com.au and the statistics on escapethat.com.au automatically, with no one typing results up by hand.
At Escape This centres that take team photos in ER-OS, the photo is attached to the team’s game straight away and, when the team has agreed to it, appears beside the team’s time on the escaper.com.au leaderboard. A team’s photo only goes on the public board with the team’s say-so.
Escape This’s Puzzle Technician (Electronics) ad asks for Arduino and Raspberry Pi programming in C++ and Python, confident soldering and a sound knowledge of electronic components. PCB design, Cat 5/6 cabling, Ethernet and serial comms and audio system setup are a plus. The role is based at Escape Box, in the workshop and on site.