Echoes in Kellie's Castle: A virtual escape room

Ng, Xue En (2025) Echoes in Kellie's Castle: A virtual escape room. Final Year Project, UTAR.

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Abstract

This project seeks to innovate a 3D virtual educational escape room that leverages VR technologies and the history of Kellie’s Castle to promote tourism in heritage sites while educating users about the site’s historical and cultural significance. Virtual educational escape rooms are digital adaptations of traditional escape rooms where users solve puzzles to "escape" a confined space while learning through interactive storytelling. Current approaches to promoting heritage tourism lack gamification elements like virtual escape rooms, leaving untapped potential in the virtual tourism industry. In addition, there also exists a gap in the integration of historical and cultural narratives within virtual educational escape rooms, as existing studies primarily focus on the effectiveness of virtual escape rooms as an educational tool and their impact on learners’ engagement. Therefore, this project aims to address these gaps by creating a virtual educational escape room based on the real-world setting of Kellie’s Castle, offering an immersive experience that enhances users' understanding of the site's history and culture while promoting tourism through interactive learning.

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