Recent Collaborations
Chris Evans designs prank escape game with Trapology
Trapology teamed up with Chris Evans to design and build a surprise pop-up escape game inside a local comic book shop. The viral video has surpassed 105 million views.
The stunt raised $477,000 for Christopher’s Haven, drawing donations from 86 countries and funding one-month housing stays for 310 families of children undergoing cancer treatment.
The secret economics of Escape Rooms
Phil Edwards sat down with Trapology CEO Jason Loeb to explore the hidden psychology and economics behind escape rooms.
Known for his work at Vox, Phil’s signature deep-dive storytelling spotlighted the cultural phenomenon Trapology helped shape.
WGBH x Trapology on an interactive virtual & IRL space-themed escape game live streamed on Twitch
“Jon Abbott of WGBH highlighted a bold Emerging Platforms project: a futuristic space station escape experience fully designed and built by Trapology.
We created the set, engineered the game, and produced the interactive livestream format on Twitch, turning public media into a fully immersive, playable broadcast.
Custom experience for Jr. Celtics Academy
Trapology designed a custom escape game for the Jr. Celtics academy
Spooky Immersive Theater in Salem
Trapology Boston recently produced a fully immersive theater experience where audience members uncovered the secrets of a powerful society rumored to communicate with the dead.
Blending live performance with interactive puzzles, guests didn’t just watch the story unfold, they stepped inside it.
Mobile Game App Design: Firefly
Communicate in real-time with Jamie, as you help them navigate the wicked and increasingly treacherous woods of the Bridgewater Triangle.
An interactive and immersive theater escape room experience: “Keep Your Garter Up”
A live, fictional wedding created by Trapology Boston. Buy a ticket and attend as a guest while 18 actors bring the bride, groom, and surprise characters to life.
Solve puzzles, uncover Christina and Jeff’s secrets, and help decide their “happy ending.”
Our first of many interactive puzzle events, with multiple rehearsed endings based on the winning team’s choice.
Cannolians, A Historical Puzzle tour around Boston’s Freedom Trail
Trapology transformed Boston’s Freedom Trail into a fully immersive, city-wide puzzle adventure.
For a financial services conference with 80 attendees from five international cities, we produced a custom, high-production mystery centered around Boston’s favorite dessert: the cannoli.
Teams of five navigated historic landmarks, interacted with eight professional actors, unlocked high-tech QR and augmented reality puzzles, and even uncovered clues inside Paul Revere’s House.
Murder Mystery on Cape Cod, a large scale 150 person team building activity
“Give them a challenge. These are smart people,” our client wrote.
“They’re 150 actuaries.”
“Perfect.”
Trapology produced a fully custom, two-hour, multi-location murder mystery for 150 actuaries at their Annual Summit.
Powered by nine live actors, the experience wove in actuarial inside jokes, industry puns, layered logic traps, and twists designed specifically to challenge some of the sharpest analytical minds in the room.
Competitive team building bake-off
Welcome to Escape Game meetings Game Show Cooking Challenge! Trapology has partnered with WeWork, Teams of 4 will go head-to-head in an intense bake-off puzzling competition.
Trap Trivia
We can keep it PG or we can ramp it up to R. We’ve have themed games: Friends, Game of Thrones, and other popular topics.
We’ve hosted at breweries, non-profit events, and private gatherings.
PAX East Speakers
Trapology Owner, Jason Loeb, has spoken at the PAX EAST panel for the last three years about the future of escape games, battle stories, and industry trends.
PBS live interactive escape game on Twitch
Trapology built NOVA’s first-ever live escape room experience from the ground up for NOVA on PBS.
Across four nights and four fully produced episodes, we designed and constructed the entire set, engineered the puzzles, and powered the live interactive gameplay streamed simultaneously on Twitch and YouTube.
The Bodega Boys and Senator Elizabeth Warren play Trapology’s Ghost Submarine
Trapology collaborated with Showtime’s late-night television show, “Desus and Mero”. The illustrious Bodega Boys brought Senator Elizabeth Warren with them to conquer our most challenging room, Ghost Submarine
The Possible Zone
Trapology partnered with The Possible Zone to mentor the next generation of creators and problem-solvers. We hosted a behind-the-scenes tour of our facility and consulted directly with students on escape game design, puzzle flow, story architecture, and experience strategy.
By sharing our real-world design process, we helped transform classroom concepts into fully realized, immersive experiences.
“Space Corp” Tabletop Game
Trapology didn’t create another escape-room-in-a-box. We engineered a fully immersive, tech-integrated space adventure for your living room.
Space Corp blends physical artifacts, interactive online components, and original narrative design into a 45 to 90 minute mission that feels as polished and layered as our in-person experiences. It’s not paper puzzles in a box. It’s a fully built universe, shipped to your door.
Game Design 101: Speaking to highschool students
Trapology game designers gave a presentation to a group of high school students from Brookline High. They discussed how to design an escape game, explained puzzle theory, and shared insights into the effort that goes into creating interactive experiences.
Let’s create something remarkable
The Trapology Difference
We will listen intently to understand your goals – You have a specific target market you’re going after, with distinctive goals and metrics you want to reach. We get you. We hear you.
Wide breath of expertise and skillsets – The Trapology team is a healthy mix of reach-for-the-stars creative alchemists as well as data-driven, spreadsheet-loving, savvy marketers that will speak your CMO’s language.
We’re all under one roof. Like the best of sports teams and theater groups, we’ve worked together for years, practicing, learning, and evolving.
We get sh’t done and have a lot of fun doing it! – We will produce results!
Let’s create something remarkable
Our promise to you
A dedicate, diverse, and talented Trapology team of hardworking designers, engineers, marketers, visual artists, carpenters, electricians, special effects specialists, photographers, filmmakers, animators, fabricators, and project managers that will bring your project concept to life.
Collaborative brainstorming sessions with your goals in mind. We consistently aim to create a standout experience for your consumers that they will remember forever.
A passionate team with a focus on advertising, promotions, STEM education, cutting edge technology, and interactive entertainmentAn impressive
Offering 5,000 square feet of space in downtown Boston on Tremont Street, with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the Boston Common.