Frequently Asked Questions

Tickets

Attendee Tickets and Admission Tickets are two similar sounding names, but they serve different functions.

Attendee Tickets: These are paid tickets that are part of your Billed To order. They can be purchased individually or in bulk and on behalf of others.

Admission Tickets: These are individualized tickets which are sent directly to the person they were assigned to during your initial Attendee Ticket purchase. These Admission Tickets will be used to check into RECON on the day of the event.

Bottom Line: After you complete your check-out process, you’ll first receive an email confirming your order has been placed. Shortly after, each attendee listed on the order will also receive their Admission Ticket.

NOTE: It could take up to 10 minutes for all of this to finish processing after you place your order. Please be patient. If you have questions, email RECON@roomescapeartist.com

Curation

It depends what you’re looking for. If you’re looking for a convention that can magically provide all the insights you need to turn your escape room business into a superpower overnight, you probably won’t find that anywhere.

At RECON, we’ll have a curated lineup of exceptional featured talks from knowledgeable speakers, all crafted for today’s audience. Additionally, we will have opportunities to engage with fantastic games, and learn through play.

Most importantly, RECON is different from other events because you’ll feel a sense of community. The entire event emphasizes 3 central goals:

Supporting the growth and evolution of escape rooms

Fostering escape room community conversation

Creating a sustainable escape room industry
We’re not just dropping speakers on stages; we’re curating an experience. Each talk will give different information, and our programming team works closely with each speaker to produce the content.

We’re looking for 4 qualities in the people that we will put on stage:

Deep knowledge of their craft

Willingness to give of their knowledge

Charismatic stage presence

Ability to put a creative spin on the content

We know a lot of people in the escape room and adjacent worlds. In some cases, we reached out to speakers and asked them to share their expertise in a certain area. In other cases, the speakers reached out to us, or answered our call for proposals, and together we determined that they’d be a great fit for RECON.
In one word: actively.

Lee-Fay Low leads the RECON Programming team in supporting each and every speaker to ensure the talks are:

Written well in advance

Crafted thoughtfully and skillfully

Fact-checked

Rehearsed

Taking setting and context into account

Room Escape Artist

No, it furthers our mission to provide valuable insights to this community, just as we do through the reviews.

The reviews that REA produces are part of our constant and ever-deepening analysis of escape rooms as a medium. Our bread and butter is studying the construction of these games, not serving judgment. It’s one of the many, many reasons that we have zero interest in ascribing ratings to games.

When we review, we call the experience as we see it. Our integrity has never been for sale… and even if it were, it would cost a whole lot more than a ticket to RECON.
The Reality Escape Convention exists to support a community and industry that loves, designs, and operates immersive games. We believe immersive games like escape rooms are a new category of storytelling, with the staying power of other media that came before. The companies thriving today are innovators and we’re excited about the innovations that will come next. RECON strives to support these businesses and to help grow a strong, sustainable industry.

Background

Room Escape Artist has been an active member of the escape room industry since 2014.

Co-founders David and Lisa Spira have been attendees, speakers (including keynote), panelists, panel moderators, exhibitors, media, and special guests at industry events all around the world. That’s how they honed a vision for a highly curated event with world-class speakers and an emphasis on community conversation.

RECON was originally planned as an in-person immersive games convention in 2020, but REA adapted in the face of the pandemic, translating the vision into an accessible, virtual, global event. RECON 20 and RECON 21 were resounding successes with over 900 attendees from more than 60 countries. In 2022, we finally hosted RECON in person, in Boston, and we've continued hosted RECON, both virtually and in person, ever since.

Frequently Asked Questions

Tickets

Curation

Room Escape Artist

Background

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