| That's valid! I think communication and setting expectations around immersive events is an unsolved problem. We have a gif here:
https://twitter.com/dustinfreeman/status/1096887625779048448 And a secret highlight reel from our premiere show:
https://escape-character.com/secret/TheAluminumCatHighlights... For many immersive events, lots of people are curious, but afraid that they'll be forced to act, or put in an awkward situation. It doesn't help that most "immersive theatre" events are so expensive to run they haven't really tried to expand out of the rich early adopter urbanite demographic. Initially our closed alpha format had audience speaking to the actor, but we repeatedly found out that the average person was intimidated. We recently switched to a mouse-based/ouija-like UI you can see in the highlight reel. This has been surprisingly expressive. We don't use audio or text chat at all for the audience anymore. More info on my blog:
https://dustinfreeman.org/blog/immersive-theatre-mice/ If I was to describe these events honestly, I'd called them "streamlined D&D" or "training wheels LARPs", but I think D&D and LARP* are intimidating mediums to the average person. * Live Action Roleplaying. |