Cosmic Crisis

Cosmic Crisis is The Escape Game’s most technically ambitious escape room — a deep-space adventure where up to eight players crew a spaceship, battling asteroids, docking at space stations, and navigating a black hole. I was the Unreal Engine programmer at Fivestone Studios, responsible for writing all of the game logic that brought the artist-provided CG scenes to life in real time.

The experience required the Unreal application to drive everything players see through the ship’s screens while responding dynamically to physical controls — buttons, switches, and levers mapped into the engine via UDP. Every action in the room had to trigger a corresponding visual response with zero perceptible latency, keeping the illusion of piloting a spacecraft intact across multi-room deployments at Escape Game locations nationwide.