As part of building a new interactive experience for Square Room Escape, I designed and implemented a real-life experience inspired by the popular cooking games such as Overcooked, Cooking Mama and Diner Dash. The goal was to create a room where players would need to work together to complete recipes to score as many points (money) in a one hour time period. In order to accomplish this, I need to design an app that players could use to score points and track puzzles inside the room.
The game application would need to allow players to view an entire menu of dishes (puzzles) and input in the correct ingredients that were obtained through solving the puzzles. Furthermore, we want to design and create a sense of urgency throughout the game, which we accomplished through use of bonus puzzles that were on a timer basis. Lastly, we designed the application to help facilitate the hint giving process, so that there would be as little interruption throughout the game play from the Game Masters themselves.
The end product needed to integrate with the real-life aspects of the room itself, and create an immersive and seamless experience that simulated the players completing recipes throughout the game.
