Storytelling, show writing & guest experience
Overview Expanding upon concepts from J. R. R. Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy-Stories,” Return from Faerie is a narrative escape game that sees players recruit the five Sages- each associated with a different storytelling medium: film, video game, theatre, music, and print. Players travel across five kingdoms to convince the Sages to return from the Realm of Faerie and face the Darkness that has…
By: Alex Tylor, Colin Phillips, Kewalin Lerdprapapong (Mint) Overview of Operation 3’s World Our world, Operation 3 is a kitchen sink style land design. The story is about 3 distinct factions who were living in separate parts of their own country, Clade. They came together when one of the factions discover a precious material, and…
Tian Tang Dim Sum [天堂点心] Created by Isabel Li, Katherine Arcinue, Katherine Tan Affiliation: Claremont Colleges (All Second-Year Students) Themed Entertainment Association @ 5Cs Tian Tang Dim Sum is an interactive three-part indoor attraction that allows guests to build community through food, performances, and adventures in an RPG-styled traditional Chinese setting. Inspired by rural, pastoral…
Team Members Lori Kipp: Set and Theming Engineer, responsible for set design, puppet design, fabrication, puppeteering, art direction Tsai-Yen (Cleo) Ko: Software Engineer, responsible for show programming, A/V programming, hardware installation, digital puppeteering Ivy Liu: Art Engineer, responsible for concept art, storyboarding, graphic design, video production, prop fabrication Nolan O’Keefe: Hardware Engineer and Producer, responsible…
Team Members: Daniel Ruiz – Graduate Queue: Guests leave behind a small Viking village in medieval Scandinavia and enter the long home of the village’s oldest member and keeper of Viking history. Passing along weapons, paintings, clothing, and pieces of armory brought back from past battles as Nordic war tunes made from woodwind instruments fill…
A Concept Package and Scale Model by Sophie Kramer Portfolio: http://sophiekramerdesign.com | Ringling College of Art and Design, Rising Junior (’25) The Earth holds more to enjoy than meets the eye… Escape the urban world and join the Dryads in the heart of their sacred forest as an honored guest. Celebrate kindness to the Earth with…
It begins a while back when I wanted to do a Chinese themed ride, and I spent a lot of time and thought the best way to introduce the environment will be a Chinese take out place. It eventually turns into this. It’s not what I had in mind in the beginning, but I quite…
Hello, hello! I am Sarah Hicks, an English graduate student at Middle Tennessee State University. For the past two years I have been studying creative writing while also learning show writing for themed entertainment. “River Tour Rampage” started as an extracurricular project, but has grown into a fully developed story and attraction concept through my…
Lost Spirits: A One-Night Adventure Through Prohibition-Era Savannah Lost Spirits is a themed scavenger-hunt-meets-bar-crawl, designed as a one-night event taking place across four distinct locations in the Historic District of Savannah, GA. Premise and Introduction Savannah during Prohibition was known as the “Spigot of the South,” as its riverfront locale and longstanding drinking culture led…
The Mall – A Themed Land Concept Team Members: Eric Einhorn, Andrew Friedenthal, Dan Mastropietro Level: We are all “mature students” with previous degrees, but we worked on this project as part of our first year in IUPUI’s Themed Entertainment online certificate. When it comes to themed attractions, don’t just see one .…
Quest for the Fabled Fortune Introduction: Spring 2023 Texas Theme Park Engineering and Design (TxTPED) set out to create an immersive escape room set in the Amazon rainforest centered around an original story. Brainstorming started in early December with a project end date being set in early March, giving the team about three months to…
Midsummer: Shakespeare Through the Park Created by Grace Shelton – IUPUI Senior Part lighted night walk, part carnival, part immersive theater, this concept aims to transport guests into the fascinating world of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This idea was developed using the Newfields campus in Indianapolis as a hypothetical site for the interactive performance.…