WEEK 4: SET DESIGN AND BUILD TEAM-WALLS COMPLETED AND REPAIRING & PUZZLE MAKING

Posted by Shano November 24, 2019

WEEK 4: SET DESIGN AND BUILD TEAM-WALLS COMPLETED AND REPAIRING & PUZZLE MAKING

After several days of building work, our team basically achieved the following goal: finished all parts of the wall construction and painting without color, completed most of puzzles, solved the problems on building slide door and made it works, repaired the cracked parts of the wall, used cardboard to cover the exposed areas of the electric wires and preparing for the color paintwork next week.

My gas mask that prepared for next week's color paint works

For the wall construction work, on Monday and Tuesday, thanks for the help by other group members, we painted three unpainted walls remained from the last week and built several thin walls to cover both the slide door and the exposed areas of wires with painted wooden frames and cardboards. On Wednesday and Thursday, we finished the layout and set of lighting effect of the first room and assisted the software & electronic team to finish the work of wall embedding screen and equipment. On Friday night, after the AlphaFest, we reinforced and repainted the reworked sliding door and repaired massive of cracks in the walls. It should be noted that a large number of wall cracks unanticipated appeared after the paint dried and need to be re-taped and re-painted, and this process has resulted in a shortage of tape. On weekend, we checked and fixed the wall paint for the last time to make sure that all the dried walls are no longer cracked and peeling which is a pre-work for the color paintwork next week.

Painting the wall that was unfinished last week (Tuesday)

Making the one-way mirrors (Tuesday)

Adding the sliding shaft to the door (Wednesday)

Interior finished effect photo 01 (Thursday)

Interior finished effect photo 02 (Thursday)

Most of the wall building works are non-creative work and highly repetitive, and it is hard for recorder to present a detailed report or content even these works may take up 14 hours per group member, so there will be no more useless descriptions of these efforts herein.

For the puzzle making work, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we made several puzzle prototypes, including the slider puzzle, however, unfortunately, most of them were either doesn’t work or quality-insufficient; one of the most difficult puzzles to build is the slider puzzle, and we have no idea about how to make it by limited tools and materials. On Thursday, we completed and reformed several word puzzles or intellectual puzzles to make them suited for putting into the room, since most chosen puzzles were just concepts or ideas, for example, breaking the decoding section of a puzzle into two pieces (an employee poster with clues and a diary with the key number written on it) that players need to discover and compare to solve the puzzle instead of just got the key or answer once they found the clue-sheet. The problem on slider puzzle making were also temporary solved by the implemented way provided by Professor Adryen Gonzalez, which is drilling holes and inserting magnets into each slider, then covering the holes with paint and arranging the resulting sliders in a box with one transparent layer side and five non-transparent layer sides. On this weekend, we also finished several puzzles such as the laser puzzle and dairy puzzle with testable prototypes; we spend a lot of time looking for boxes or containers without build-in locks that we can match them with our locks we already have, and it also took us a lot of time to playtesting and iterate puzzle prototypes which resulted that all of our group members were spoiled and lost interest in playing our own escape room.