egnor
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Post by egnor on Oct 6, 2014 14:46:53 GMT
Hi all, after looking for a general listing of escape rooms (and not finding one), I'm starting a simple escape room directory: escaperoomdirectory.com/I've done a first pass to fill it out, but there's still a lot missing (especially HU and CN, but generally everywhere). I still need to scour the posts on this site to find references to rooms I missed... let me know what you think, and feel free to send me updates and corrections.
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Post by Chris M. Dickson on Oct 7, 2014 7:47:08 GMT
Essa's lists at Intervirals are hugely cool, but this is hugely cool as well, not least because in my head I have half a suspicion that you have spent time working on a 2000-character single-line perl command that will search the web for relevant games and build that page automatically. :-) My favourite part is your collection of links to other blogs, particularly the Singaporean and Malaysian ones. Hadn't seen those before and it's good to know there are more such blogs out there! Edited to add: oh oh oh and the China EGA site you link to is a real eye-opener; a machine translation suggests that the graph at the bottom contains a list of the number of games (maybe sites, maybe rooms) in each of a dozen Chinese cities. So you know how exitgames.hu claims fifty-something (maybe 60+ by now...?) games for Budapest? China has eight Budapests by itself, with Beijing alone currently listed as having 155 games. This backs up the remarkable-looking claim in the Wall Street Journal last December that Beijing had 120. It's tempting to wonder whether Beijing's growth is actually starting to slow down, but now there is a way to follow progress.
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egnor
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Post by egnor on Oct 7, 2014 14:54:09 GMT
Python script, actually. :-) But no, I'm not fancy enough to harvest data automatically, it just turns a Google spreadsheet into the page.
Chinese escape rooms: I know, right? Hungary dwarfs everywhere else, and China dwarfs Hungary. Reading on a site like ChinaEGA about how someone launched the first restaurant inside an escape room (or is it an escape room inside a restaurant? The translation is unclear) is just amazing.
The big question is whether everywhere else will catch up, or if this is some kind of fad whose popularity is driven by local cultural and economic forces.
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egnor
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Post by egnor on Oct 7, 2014 19:23:00 GMT
I feel dumb now -- I've been exploring Intervirals for a while now (the blog posts, forum threads etc) but only now realized that the top nav bar leads to by-location room listings!
So arguably I just spent a weekend on a totally redundant project! Oh well.
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Post by Dscry on Oct 8, 2014 13:24:09 GMT
I like that list! ^^ A few more places to add in Malaysia would be Escape Zone in Petaling Jaya (There's a typo in your list for the spelling) and Escape Ninja Entertainment in Puchong.
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Post by Essa on Oct 9, 2014 11:26:43 GMT
Hey egnor, Welcome to the site. Incredible work on the escape room directory list you have created, I have a good feeling I’m going to use a few of the room escape references back on my blog!
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egnor
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Post by egnor on Oct 9, 2014 14:52:41 GMT
I like that list! ^^ A few more places to add in Malaysia would be Escape Zone in Petaling Jaya (There's a typo in your list for the spelling) and Escape Ninja Entertainment in Puchong. Added, and spelling fixed, thank you! I was doing some research to understand locations in Malaysia, and I think I probably need to fix things up a bit. Johor is a state, Johor Bahru is a major city in that state; Petaling Jaya is another city (a satellite of Kuala Lumpur?); there seem to be many areas of urbanization that span several cities. What's the most sensible organization to a local?
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Post by Chris M. Dickson on Oct 10, 2014 11:36:54 GMT
"Let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend" - the more directories the merrier, I'd say. Essa has found at least one UK site that I didn't know about in the past, and we can all learn from each other.
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Shaun
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Post by Shaun on Oct 14, 2014 17:59:37 GMT
I agree with Chris, the more the merrier, if its any help I can let you have a kml file of the european locations that I have mapped here: BlogShaun
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Post by Essa on Oct 15, 2014 10:08:14 GMT
+2 in agreement - I view the topic of room escapes as a large project to cover (there's heaps of different aspects to cover) and which anyone can contribute any of their skills to. Plus everyone here is passionate about the topic - which makes it really awesome.
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Shaun
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Post by Shaun on Oct 20, 2014 7:14:36 GMT
Ahoi! Updating my map, I have broken the 100 location mark at last! I found Hemos Salido a listing and review site for spanish locations, one of which has the very intriging name "Chicken Bananna" Shaun
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egnor
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Post by egnor on Nov 5, 2014 4:34:08 GMT
I agree with Chris, the more the merrier, if its any help I can let you have a kml file of the european locations that I have mapped here: BlogShaun That would be cool! If anyone else is interested in cross-referencing, I've made the underlying spreadsheet with the data from escaperoomdirectory available. There's a link at the bottom of the site, or you can go here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KNrE3mw0YY2kVDNVamNBQ4H6UUN7G_1BK4tct5umR-E/edit#gid=0
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Post by artenigma on Nov 11, 2014 17:10:14 GMT
Hi! I would like to present you a new scape room in Valencia: Art Enigma. www.artenigmavlc.com could you join on it? thank you!
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Shaun
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Post by Shaun on Nov 12, 2014 14:54:17 GMT
Ahoi! I added Art Enigma but you need to edit out the semi-colon in the link in your post.
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Post by Essa on Nov 14, 2014 12:48:09 GMT
Hi artenigma, Welcome to the forums and I'll add your new escape room as well. I edited out the semi-colon in the website provided too.
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