Artefact Temporis
A museum escape game at the Asian Civilisations Museum for up to 150, solving puzzles among the galleries to reconnect a lost rover.
Venue Asian Civilisations MuseumMax players Up to 150 pax
For education teams
Host a learning journey your cohort learns from, and bonds over.
We run learning journeys as escape games. Students work the galleries in teams, and the history sticks because they have to use it to get anywhere. The same game covers orientation camps, VIA projects, post-exam programmes and cohort bonding, for one class or a whole level.
- For
- Schools, JCs, ITE, polys, unis
- Scale
- 10 to 1,000+ pax
- Formats
- Learning journey, camp, VIA
- Where
- Museums, heritage sites, campus
Why it works here
Built around what education teams need.
01
Written into the galleries
The puzzles run off what is actually on display at the Asian Civilisations Museum, the Maritime Gallery, the Battlebox or Haw Par Villa. Students read the exhibits because the answer is in them.
02
A whole level at once
Forty students or a thousand, in one morning, in waves or all together. On site or on your campus if the cohort cannot travel.
03
Light on your teachers
Our facilitators run the stations, the timing and the debrief, so form teachers and student leaders walk with their class instead of manning a table.
Suited games
A good place to start.
Learning journey venues
A learning journey starts with the place, not the activity.
These are the museums, heritage sites and parks where the game is already written and tested. Pick one and we bring the rest, or tell us the venue your school has in mind.
Orientation games
Orientation games for a cohort of 100 to 1,000.
An orientation game for a university or polytechnic cohort is one escape game that every orientation group plays at the same time. The host briefs the whole cohort, each OG becomes a team, and they all work the same case in parallel for 90 to 150 minutes. It works as an icebreaker for a plain reason: freshmen who met ten minutes ago cannot solve the first puzzle without talking to each other.
Up to 300
One hall, on campus
Journey into the Unknown
An indoor sci-fi escape game that runs in any hall, lecture theatre or multi-purpose room. Teams have 90 minutes to repair the escape pods before life support fails.
Up to 500
Across the campus
Race to Infinity
Teams spread out over indoor and outdoor checkpoints for 150 minutes, retrieving five jewels against the clock. The one race in our set, for a cohort that wants to move.
Up to 1,000
Off campus, all at once
Lost Treasure of Sarang Rimau
Takes a whole intake to Fort Siloso on Sentosa for an outdoor escape game, with no admission ticket or venue hire. Staying on campus with a cohort that size? It runs in waves instead.
How it runs on campus
- 01 You arrange the space. A hall, a lecture theatre or the grounds, through your school. We need room to seat the teams and somewhere to set up at the front. No projector, no special power.
- 02 One briefing for everyone. Our host briefs the whole cohort at once. Each orientation group (OG) becomes a team, or we split the OGs smaller if you would rather.
- 03 Phones out, nothing to install. Every team plays on its own phones in a browser, with a physical kit of props. Each team gets its own order of stops, so 300 freshmen never crowd one puzzle.
- 04 OGLs play, our staff run it. Orientation group leaders play with their group instead of manning a station. Our staff hold the timing, and on these Immersive games facilitators in costume are stationed around the venue.
- 05 A result to end on. The reveal and the scoreboard close it, OG against OG, with finish times, hints taken and wrong turns.
When it runs in the academic year
- January to March
- Searches for orientation games peak in January, when committees start planning. Brief us then and you keep your pick of dates.
- April
- The polytechnic academic year starts, so this is when a new poly intake is oriented.
- July to early August
- University orientation camps and freshman weeks, just before term starts in August.
- Through the year
- Hall, faculty and CCA orientations, and the post-exam weeks when a cohort needs something that is not another talk.
Journey into the Unknown and Race to Infinity are Immersive games, so the game fee is SGD 1,100 fixed plus SGD 20 a head: 300 freshmen is SGD 7,100, about SGD 24 a head. Lost Treasure of Sarang Rimau also runs on Standard at SGD 300 fixed plus SGD 20 a head, so 1,000 is SGD 20,300. Inducting new staff rather than freshmen? See onboarding and orientation. Want the game written around your own campus? That is a custom escape game. More warm-ups for a big cohort: icebreaker games for large groups.
Trusted by universities and polytechnics
Temasek Polytechnic
Singapore Polytechnic
How it works
Five steps to game day.
- 01
Choose your game
Pick from 11 games and venues, or tell us your headcount and we will match one.
- 02
Add any extras
Catering, transport, prizes, extra activities. Build the day you want.
- 03
Receive a proposal
Our events team sends a tailored proposal with pricing and logistics.
- 04
Confirm the event
Lock the date and venue. We handle facilitators, props and set-up.
- 05
Game day
Turn up and play. Our hosts run everything, with facilitators in costume on Immersive.
Good questions
Education FAQ
How many people can take part?
We run games for groups of roughly 10 to 1,000+ people. Our minimum is 10 pax, and we scale all the way to 1,000+. Different games have different maximum capacities, from 50 up to 1,000, so we will match the game to your headcount.
Can a learning journey be run as an escape game?
Yes. We write the puzzles around what is actually on display at the venue, so a learning journey at the Asian Civilisations Museum, the Singapore Maritime Gallery, the Battlebox or Haw Par Villa becomes a game the students play in teams. They read the exhibits because the answers are in them. A run takes about 1.5 to 2 hours and we can put a whole level through it in one morning, in waves or all at once.
Which venues can we do a learning journey at?
The games are already written and tested at the Asian Civilisations Museum, the Singapore Maritime Gallery, the Battlebox at Fort Canning, Haw Par Villa, Fort Siloso and River Wonders. If your school has a different venue in mind, or wants the game on campus, we can build for that too. The admission fee is charged by the venue and we set it out separately in the quote.
How many students can join a learning journey?
From 10 to more than 1,000. A single class runs as one game; a whole cohort runs in waves or in parallel teams across the venue, with our facilitators holding the timing. Teachers walk with their class rather than manning stations.
Does this work for VIA, orientation camps or post-exam programmes?
Yes. The same game covers values in action projects, freshman orientation, CCA and cohort bonding, and the post-exam weeks when a level needs something to do that is not another talk. Tell us the outcome you want out of the day and we shape the brief and the debrief around it.
What orientation games work for a cohort of 100 to 1,000 students?
One escape game that every orientation group plays at once. The host briefs the whole cohort, each orientation group (OG) becomes a team, and every team works the same case in parallel on its own order of stops, so nobody queues. Journey into the Unknown takes up to 300 in one hall for 90 minutes, Race to Infinity up to 500 across a campus, and Lost Treasure of Sarang Rimau up to 1,000 at Fort Siloso on Sentosa.
Can you run an orientation game on our campus?
Yes. Journey into the Unknown and Race to Infinity both travel, so we bring the game, the kits and our staff to your hall, lecture theatre or grounds. What we need is a space big enough to seat the teams and somewhere to set up at the front. Students play on their own phones in a browser, with nothing to download, and orientation group leaders play with their group instead of manning a station.
Request a proposal
Ready to start planning?
Tell us your group size, dates and what you have in mind. We will send a tailored proposal, no obligation.