The Acrobat

CONCEPT SKETCHES

Jennifer Leung

I've taken three elements of The Acrobat to break down. As a reminder, the goal of the room is for the players to unlock the goblet encased in glass at the centre of the room. In order to do so, the players have to recognize that they have to press three buttons located around the room that have the same symbol as the unlock button on the pedestal. This has to be done without tripping any of the lasers around the room. The view of the room and the location of the unlock buttons are only visible when the floor panel is triggered but then lasers and the visible laser beams are off but can still be triggered, otherwise the lasers are on.

The Room

The room

Once the players enter the room, they are greeted by a goblet encased on a display on a pedestal. Once the players make their way around the lasers to the goblet, they will try to get to the the goblet by pressing on the unlock button. If this is done whilst the panel is pressed down to reveal the projection of the room, the location of the unlock buttons around the room will blink.

Room with buttons blinking

This will help the players see what they have to reach in case they don't notice that the symbol on the unlock button appears on the walls.

The Buttons

The buttons located around the room must not be visually distinct to the wall around it. Since the tops of these rooms are open, the room is not going to be entirely dark when the room is in lasers mode

I propose that the walls are covered with a giant piece of dark cloth. the button mechanism can be found underneath the cloth. Since the cloth is dark, it will not stain as easy from dirty hands, and should be able to obscure where the buttons are located when the lasers are on. If we keep the dark cloth slightly away from the buttons, there shouldn't be any hints of where a button could potentially be located.

The buttons itself can transmit a signal to the pedestal via wifi. If we install 20 buttons around the room

The Pedestal

The pedestal serves two purposes:

  1. To give a visual hint for where the unlock buttons are located
  2. To bring down the glass around the goblet and unlock the door if all three buttons around the room are pressed.
Goblet

The button can be wired to a Raspberry Pi, which can communiate to the buttons on the walls and control the movement of the glass.