Game On 2025

During check-in you’ll

• receive your badge

• receive your welcome pack

📍 Main Event Hall (Sibson Building) - Google Maps

📍 Ground floor of the Sibson building - this is where the conference will take place.

Have a quick browse before the keynote starts at 9:00 am.

Highlight Sponsors

🔒 Quizboxing: A new concept from France and a great option if you are looking to diversify your game portfolio.

🔒 Questy: A new game building platform for outdoor and play at home games. The best part, it requires zero coding skills.

🔒 Buzzshot: Escape Room Software powering business growth, player marketing and customer experience.

🔒 RiskBox: An insurance provider with packages specifically made for escape room needs.

🔒 Immersif: One-stop shop for escape room finances: Bookkeeping, Payroll, VAT, Annual Accounts, Self-Assessment, ER Insights, and more!

🔒 Massive Impact: Marketing agency looking after your website, SEO and PPC management needs. They also specialise in escape rooms.

🔒 Zolitopia: (Game On Organiser) Zoli offers over a decade of experience in the industry in long term business development and marketing.

Sponsors

🗝️ Escape Puzzles: Complete escape room plans and assets you need to start building an escape room.

🗝️ Escape Workshop: Creating full builds from the minds behind the highly praised Pier Pressure games in Brighton.

🗝️ COGS: Show control built for live interactive experiences such as Phantom Peak, Bridge Command and many more around the globe.

🗝️ Indestroom: One of the largest escape room supplier with dozens of different themes and game formats in their library.

🗝️ Drawbridge: Drawbridge takes the guesswork out of running your business—using smart AI alongside an optimized interface that brings together all your critical data to give you instant insight.

Zoli will welcome Game On attendees and we’ll also take a quick group photo before the keynote.

📍 LT2 - First Floor

🧙‍♂️ Game On Topic: Future Proofing

🎤 Speaker: Zoli Papp

🎯 Bio Highlights: Zoli consults escape room owners on business development and marketing. He also co-founded the UK’s longest running escape room clueQuest.marketing.

📈 Talk Summary

Next Gen ER Businesses

Although the global escape room market is valued at 9 Billion USD and is predicted to grow yearly by 15% in the next 5 years, developed markets such as the UK, US and Europe are experiencing bearish markets.

This new situation can only be survived by escape rooms that are well structured and keep innovating.

Zoli will share his insights on how you can set up an agile organisation that’s capable of navigating this new landscape.

📍 LT2 - First Floor

🧙‍♂️ Game On Topic: Future Proofing

🎤 Speaker: David Goodman

🎯 Bio Highlights: David - the owners of Hounds - writes, designs and builds all sorts of immersive productions. He is not only committed to evolve his own immersive business but he’s also eager to help the industry as a whole.

📈 Talk Summary

A thought provoking talk about the need to change our perspective on how we view escape rooms.

David will share insights on why and how he and his team almost entirely dropped the use of the words ‘escape rooms’ in order to fight negative connotation in potential customers’ minds attached to these words

This change helped them to reach a wide range of potential customers who might have thought: ‘Escape rooms are not for me.’

Time to grab a quick bite, coffee and do another quick browse of the sponsors.

✍️ Format Overview

• There will be three interactive workshops happening simultaneously that you can choose from.

• The goal of these workshops is to engage you in excercises so you can walk away with a to-do list.

• These workshops will repeat at 3pm so you’ll be able to attend two of the three options.

📝 Option #1 - Adjusting Difficulty On The Fly

📍 SR1 - Ground Floor

🧙‍♂️ Game On Topic: Future Proofing

🎤 Workshop Leader: Philly Harris

🎯 Bio Highlights: Philly’s academic career in psychology was cut short when she and her husband started Pier Pressure, a TERPECA winning spot. Since then she not only designed games for themselves but various clients around Europe.

📈 Workshop details

Learn about adjusting game difficulty on the fly and why this will benefit both the players and your operational team.

During the workshop you’ll turn a couple of your own puzzles into ones that have different difficulty levels. This will give you a framework to update all your rooms after the conference.

📝 Option #2 - Data Driven Decision Making

📍 SR2 - Ground Floor

🧙‍♂️ Game On Topic: Future Proofing

🎤 Workshop Leader: Chi Yun Wai (Sam)

🎯 Bio Highlights: Chi not only owned an escape room in Central London but he is a master of numbers and a certified bookkeeper. Since he sold his escape room, he’s supporting owners in making financially viable decisions.

📈 Workshop details

This workshop will dive deep into escape room business numbers and how you can back up your decisions with them.

If you ever wondered for example if one of your rooms is still making enough profit or it should be replaced, this workshop has your name written all over it.

📝 Option #3 - Memorable Branding

📍 SR3 - First Floor

🧙‍♂️ Game On Topic: Future Proofing

🎤 Workshop Leader: Zoli Papp

🎯 Bio Highlights: Zoli not only co-founded clueQuest with it’s widely recognised yellow mouse, Mr Q, but through his consulting work he also helped owners refresh their businesses around the globe.

📈 Workshop details

If you feel like your brand could use a refresh or just want to help your customers to recall your business more easily, this workshop is the one for you.

During the workshop you will work on your brand’s personality and will be shown practical techniques that will help you to differentiate your business from the competition.

🍔 Enjoy a delicious selection of sandwiches and finger food in the main hall.

🛒 This lunch break is two hours long so you’ll also have plenty of time to explore the sponsors exhibiting in the main hall.

Highlight Sponsors

🔒 Quizboxing: A new concept from France and a great option if you are looking to diversify your game portfolio.

🔒 Questy: A new game building platform for outdoor and play at home games. The best part, it requires zero coding skills.

🔒 Buzzshot: Escape Room Software powering business growth, player marketing and customer experience.

🔒 RiskBox: An insurance provider with packages specifically made for escape room needs.

🔒 Immersif: One-stop shop for escape room finances: Bookkeeping, Payroll, VAT, Annual Accounts, Self-Assessment, ER Insights, and more!

🔒 Massive Impact: Marketing agency looking after your website, SEO and PPC management needs. They also specialise in escape rooms.

Sponsors

🗝️ Escape Puzzles: Complete escape room plans and assets you need to start building an escape room.

🗝️ Escape Workshop: Creating full builds from the minds behind the highly praised Pier Pressure games in Brighton.

🗝️ COGS: Show control built for live interactive experiences such as Phantom Peak, Bridge Command and many more around the globe.

🗝️ Indestroom: One of the largest escape room supplier with dozens of different themes and game formats in their library.

📍 LT2 - First Floor

🧙‍♂️ Game On Topic: Diversification

🎤 Speaker: Phil Harris

🎯 Bio Highlights: Phil not only co-own Pier Pressure - a UK’s top 100 winner - but also successfully diversified their business into room and prop building.

📈 Talk Summary

Every owner brushes up to the idea at least once in their career to become a supplier for other escape rooms for their props, booking software, marketing needs, just to name a few.

Phil and his team not only played around with this idea but actually did it. During his talk he will share the pitfalls and learning points of their journey.

This talk will equip you with knowledge on how you too could take one of your expertise and become an industry supplier.

♻️ 11:15 AM Workshops Repeating

All three interactive workshops from the 11:15 am slots are repeating to give you the opportunity to attend two of the three available workshops on day 1.

📝 Option #1 - Adjusting Difficulty On The Fly

📍 SR1 - Ground Floor

🧙‍♂️ Game On Topic: Future Proofing

🎤 Workshop Leader: Philly Harris

🎯 Bio Highlights: Philly’s academic career in psychology was cut short when she and her husband started Pier Pressure, a TERPECA winning spot. Since then she not only designed games for themselves but various clients around Europe.

📈 Workshop details

Learn about adjusting game difficulty on the fly and why this will benefit both the players and your operational team.

During the workshop you’ll turn a couple of your own puzzles into ones that have different difficulty levels. This will give you a framework to update all your rooms after the conference.

📝 Option #2 - Data Driven Decision Making

📍 SR2 - Ground Floor

🧙‍♂️ Game On Topic: Future Proofing

🎤 Workshop Leader: Chi Yun Wai (Sam)

🎯 Bio Highlights: Chi not only owned an escape room in Central London but he is a master of numbers and a certified bookkeeper. Since he sold his escape room, he’s supporting owners in making financially viable decisions.

📈 Workshop details

This workshop will dive deep into escape room business numbers and how you can back up your decisions with them.

If you ever wondered for example if one of your rooms is still making enough profit or it should be replaced, this workshop has your name written all over it.

📝 Option #3 - Memorable Branding

📍 SR3 - First Floor

🧙‍♂️ Game On Topic: Future Proofing

🎤 Workshop Leader: Zoli Papp

🎯 Bio Highlights: Zoli not only co-founded clueQuest with it’s widely recognised yellow mouse, Mr Q, but through his consulting work he also helped owners refresh their businesses around the globe.

📈 Workshop details

If you feel like your brand could use a refresh or just want to help your customers to recall your business more easily, this workshop is the one for you.

During the workshop you will work on your brand’s personality and will be shown practical techniques that will help you to differentiate your business from the competition.

Once the 3pm workshops wrap at 3:45pm you’ll have another hour and a bit to explore the exhibitors. This is also a perfect time to pop back to your accommodation to freshen up for the evening.

We’ll stay in the Sibson building to play Time Crimes and do networking from 5pm.

📍SR1 and SR2 - Ground Floor

Time Crimes is an exciting mobile game brought over from the Netherlands to showcase how you too could diversify into off-site events.

The game will run in two back-to-back sessions. Please refer to your badge for team assignments.

⏱️ 1st session starts at 5:00 pm

⏱️ 2nd session starts at 6:45 pm

‼️AGENDA CHANGE NOTICE‼️

Originally Canterbury Tales by the Escapement team was included in the schedule. Unfortunately due to severe delays to their construction we had no choice but to replace the activity.

We think you’ll love Time Crimes but we do understand if this change may be upsetting. We were just as much looking forward to experience Canterbury Tales.

Thank you for your understanding and we apologise for any incovenience this may cause.

📍 Main Evet Hall

🍹 5:30 PM: A bar will be set up for us to enjoy drinks. (pay your own)

🍗 8:00 PM: Dinner will be served (Dinner and a soft drink is included in your ticket)