experiential design and creative technology

Twilight Circus

60out Escape Rooms (Silver Lake), 2026

After boarding a train to visit the grand reopening of the world famous Twilight Circus, you find that a mysterious otherworldly force has frozen the circus and its performers in time. You must escape before it can trap you too!

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Twilight Circus was fully designed and produced by Awkward Dog on behalf of 60out Silver Lake. It is a full reimagining of the classic 60out escape rooms Hyde Circus.

The experience transports guests from the relative normalcy of an 1800s passenger train car into a magical, spooky, highly interactive world filled with dynamic practical effects and highly immersive lighting and sound design. As they forge deeper into the unknown, guests come face to face with increasingly surreal and Lovecraftian obstacles in their quest to reverse the mysterious curse keeping the circus frozen in time, doomed to sink further into decay and depravity.

Building on top of the foundation provided by the set of the original Hyde Circus escape room, the Awkward Dog team heavily revised all aspects of story, gameplay, and presentation, including:

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