New interactive game show venue from ‘Breakout’ brand launches in Manchester

From the team behind Breakout & Virtual Hideout comes Challenge Point, Manchester’s brand new interactive game show venue, launching this October.

The concept combines a host of classic TV game shows, a Mission Impossible style laser maze, a wild crazy golf course & remote control tanks trapped in a Tokyo based maze, and is centred around the fictitious story of ‘Breakout Studios’ and its hit TV Show ‘Challenge Point’.

Challenge Point offers a TV game show experience in its Manchester venue. The brand won a £30k Innovate UK grant to create its Ball Pit mini game as part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which aims to provide businesses with the expertise, facilities and funding they need to test, demonstrate and evolve their ideas.

The new concept comes from the Breakout brand, which opened its first live escape room venue back in May 2014 in Manchester.

Breakout now has 17 rooms and has grown its team to 60 employees in operation across the city, with sites also operating in Liverpool and Chester. Since launch, over 1 million players have attempted to escape across all Breakout North West venues.

The Breakout brand has also sold escape room designs to over 20 countries across the globe including the USA, Peru, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and Australia, as well as having a room situated within a TUI Cruise Ship and has now eyed an interactive game show experience as its next expansion route

Ed Roberts, Director of Challenge Point, Breakout and Virtual Hideout, commented: “We’re really excited to be launching our new interactive game show experience, Challenge Point, under the umbrella of the Breakout brand.”

“We wanted to bring a new immersive game concept to Manchester, with a series of unique mini games that are accessible and fun for the whole family, including our grant-winning Ball Pit, a fast paced game where coloured balls fall from the ceiling and must be thrown into the corresponding containers to gain points.”

Much like its sister brands, Challenge Point offers an ‘immersive’ game experience, catering to groups of friends and family alike. Teams of two to six can battle it out in a series of mini games, with the aim of earning as many points as possible to win a host of prizes.

Teams that reach the target figure of 100 points across the mini games will go forth to play Challenge Point’s elusive final game, The Point. Every three months, the teams that top the leaderboard will be invited back to compete in a champion-of-champions game, where the winners will be rewarded with up to £4,000 worth of prizes.

By Matthew Neville – Senior Correspondent, Bdaily

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