How to make decorations for a quest

Probably, many of you already know what a quest is in reality, and even participated in such a game. To complete the quest, a group of people are placed in an isolated room, from which they must find a way out in a certain time. There are a lot of themes for the quest plots, it all depends on the imagination of the creators.

Few people know how to create scenery for quests. Today we will tell you.

The very first quests in reality took place back in 2007: Takao Kato, the publisher of a free magazine about city events and entertainment, came up with the idea to transfer the game to reality. The games were held in clubs and bars in Kyoto city — 60 minutes to find hidden objects and decipher codes. In the following years, the fun was held in the most unusual places — schools, former hospitals, amusement parks, stadiums and churches. By March 2012, more than 100 thousand people in Japan, China and Singapore took part in the game.

The quest industry came to Moscow in 2014, after such entertainment became famous in the USA, Japan and Europe. If initially they were small rooms on the outskirts of the city with shabby decorations and the simplest locks and exit tasks, now the quest industry has developed into full-fledged centers for family recreation.

Nowadays, to bring an interesting idea of a questrum to life, it is not enough to equip a room in the basement with the help of friends, throwing homemade props there. Over the two years of the existence of this business in Russia, the demands of both visitors and the creators of questrums have grown. It is difficult to surprise the Moscow audience with simple quests that were popular a couple of years ago, now you need to make a quality product.

First of all, for a high-quality and interesting entourage of the questrum, the hands of professionals who do such things for the film industry are needed. This, of course, costs more than ordering a prop from a familiar craftsman, but the quality of the details is in the first place.

In the first workshop, from which my tour began, they work with iron. Here they roll, forge, cut metal plates, weld them together — because there is a constant noise in the workshop.

Here they make decorations not only for questrums, but also for various historical films, fantasy, etc. It was here that the props for the film "Wolfhound" were made.

There are a large number of different tools in the workshop, for example, this rolling machine.

Unless the wallpaper is glued by specialists of construction companies. It takes several months from the idea to the implementation, depending on the complexity.

They told how one woman at the 9th month of pregnancy tore a piece of rebar out of the wall and broke the safe out of the wall, trying to find a clue. Later, experts tried to repeat her feat, but they failed.

And in order to talk about their quests and find out how other representatives of this industry are doing, international conferences are held every year, the first of which was held in Amsterdam.

Game consoles and other virtual reality equipment are made in the same workshops.

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