Arena For Live Action Gaming, Mission Quests and Puzzle Solving Attractions

Abstract

A modular, portable arena for housing a plurality of escape room game environments is described. The arena provides basic services such as power, control, sales, marketing, climate control, and isolation from the surrounding environment needed to support the individual games and their rooms. Games are temporarily installed within the arena, and can easily be swapped out. Arena is configurable to support various types and shapes of escape room type games. Each game environment could have multiple rooms or levels.

1 . A modular, portable arena for housing a plurality of escape room type games, the arena comprising:
 external walls surrounding the arena, the external walls comprised of a plurality of panels assembled around the arena;   a roof mechanically connected to the top of the external walls, forming a top of the arena;   the arena configured into a plurality of game environment areas, each game environment area having separate entrance and exit doors providing access to and from the arena through the external walls;   wherein the arena is designed to hold a plurality of games, each game comprising internal walls, some of which attach to the external walls forming double walls, where the internal walls hold decorations and props for the specific escape room type game, each game comprising a plurality of rooms within the game;   wherein the exit doors allow egress under specific conditions including some conditions related to rules of the escape room type game.   
     
     
         2 . The arena of  claim 1  wherein there are two or more game environment areas. 
     
     
         3 . The arena of  claim 1  wherein the internal walls contain internal doors separating the rooms of game play. 
     
     
         4 . The arena of  claim 2  wherein the conditions to allow egress through the internal doors include an expiration of a period of time. 
     
     
         5 . The arena of  claim 2  further comprising a control panel and a means for control communications, the control panel controlling the game environment, internal doors, and external doors. 
     
     
         6 . The arena of  claim 1  wherein the external walls are self-supporting. 
     
     
         7 . The arena of  claim 1  further comprising a ticket booth. 
     
     
         8 . The arena of  claim 6  wherein the ticket booth provides a means for access through the entrance doors. 
     
     
         9 . The arena of  claim 1  further comprising a power panel and a power bus for providing power to the game environment areas. 
     
     
         10 . The arena of  claim 1  further comprising an inner hallway between the game environment areas. 
     
     
         11 . A system for playing a plurality of escape room type games, the system comprising:
 a modular, portable arena for housing the plurality of escape room type games, the arena comprising:
 external walls surrounding the arena, the external walls comprised of a plurality of panels assembled around the arena; 
 a roof mechanically connected to the top of the external walls, forming a top of the arena; 
 the arena configured into a plurality of game environment areas, each game environment area having separate entrance and exit doors providing access to and from the arena through the external walls; 
 wherein the arena is designed to hold a plurality of game environments; 
 wherein the exit doors allow egress only under specific conditions including some conditions related to rules of the escape room type game; 
   each of the plurality of game environment areas comprising:
 internal walls, some of which attach to the external walls forming double walls; 
 a plurality of rooms, each room separated by internal doors mounted in the internal walls; 
 decorations and props, specific to each escape room type game, attached to the internal walls and a floor in contact with the internal walls; 
 wherein the internal doors allow egress only under specific conditions including some conditions related to rules of the escape room type game. 
   
     
     
         12 . The game environment area of  claim 11  wherein the specific conditions to allow egress through the internal doors include an expiration of a period of time. 
     
     
         13 . The arena of  claim 11  wherein the external walls are self-supporting. 
     
     
         14 . The arena of  claim 11  further comprising a ticket booth. 
     
     
         15 . The arena of  claim 14  wherein the ticket booth provides a means for access through the entrance doors. 
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 11  further comprising a control panel and a means for control communications, the control panel controlling the game environment, internal doors, and external doors. 
     
     
         17 . A method for assembling a modular, portable arena for housing a plurality of escape room type games, the method comprising:
 connecting a plurality of panels assembled around the arena to form external walls surrounding the arena;   attaching a roof mechanically to the top of the external walls, forming a top of the arena;   configuring the arena into a plurality of internal game environment areas, each game environment area having separate entrance and exit doors providing access to and from the arena through the external walls;   installing in the arena the plurality of game environments, each game environment comprising internal walls, some of which attach to the external walls forming double walls, where the internal walls hold decorations and props for the specific escape room type game, each game environment comprising a plurality of rooms of game play;   wherein the exit doors allow egress only under specific conditions including some conditions related to rules of the escape room type game.   
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 17  further comprising installing a control panel in the arena and connecting the control panel to the game environments and the exit doors. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 17  further comprising installing a power panel in the arena and connecting the power panel through a power bus to the game environments. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 17  further comprising the installing of a HVAC system in the arena.