From an evening of slides to active team training
The starting point was an evening-long PowerPoint presentation. Classic theory sessions often do not stick, especially in the evening after a long working day.
The escape room replaces listening with doing. It combines realistic fire-service scenarios with teamwork and direct feedback, and participants solve problems under time pressure. The scenarios deal with incidents involving hazardous substances.
Four firefighters, one 20-minute air supply
The training is fully multiplayer: four firefighters play at the same time. Together they work on tasks such as multiple-choice questions, recognising icons and realistic interventions.
Players can join in the same room or from another location, and see and hear each other live in the virtual environment.
The clock is set to 20 minutes, the time one breathing-air cylinder lasts. This makes it team training under time pressure.
Instructors steer with a tablet app
Instructors use an admin app on a tablet. They can watch through cameras or through a player's eyes, give hints, reset items or join the session themselves with a unique code.
That way the instructor can steer each session in real time and adapt it to the group.
Developed with Windesheim University of Applied Sciences
Our studio developed the escape room together with Veiligheidsregio IJsselland and Windesheim University of Applied Sciences.
The project brought a public safety authority, a university of applied sciences and our studio together around one learning product.
Planning something similar for your own learners? You can talk to us about a project like this.
