The Dunny wasn’t bought in, franchised or flat-packed. Escape This designed, wrote, built and painted it in-house at its own escape room design studio and factory in Perth, like every room it runs.
In short: The Dunny was designed and built in-house by Escape This, Australia’s largest escape room operator. Its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Bayswater, Perth, writes, engineers, builds and paints every room before installing it in venues across Australia.
Most escape room companies buy their rooms in. Escape This builds its own. Its design studio and escape room factory in Bayswater, Perth, is where every Escape This world is written, engineered, built and painted, from The Dunny’s outback outhouse to the tombs, asylums and pirate ships in its other venues.
Owning the whole production, from story and gameplay to physical sets and integrated technology, lets Escape This hold every room to one standard. It calls that standard total immersion: movie-set quality worlds where the players are the main characters.
Escape This’s in-house team is always busy with the next production.
Shape each world and the journey through it.
Write the story, the characters and every line they speak.
Design non-linear puzzles that fit the story, not the other way round.
Build movie-set quality rooms full-scale in the factory.
Age, paint and texture every surface until it feels real.
Make the objects you pick up, open, break and solve.
Build each world’s controllers, electronics and special effects: the hidden tech that makes a world react to you.
Record and mix each world’s soundtrack, sound effects and professional voice-overs.
Every room starts as a story, like Huge Axeman’s locked dunny, with a world, a character and a ticking clock.
Puzzle planners map how a team moves through the room, so the puzzles drive the story.
Set builders construct the room in the factory, from the timber outhouse to the bush around it.
Scenic artists and the props team age, paint and dress every surface and object.
Soundscapes, voice-overs, lighting and hidden technology bring it to life: cicadas, a whistled “Waltzing Matilda”, an axe outside.
The finished room is installed in a venue and run by trained gamesmasters, and player data and reviews feed back into the next production.
48 Escape This escape rooms across 5 venues, all designed and built in the same factory.
The largest escape room venue in the Southern Hemisphere, home to adventures including The Dunny and Hotel: Murder Mystery.
Australia’s premier dedicated horror venue (18+), inside a heritage-listed building more than a century old.
Immersive adventures in the heart of Sydney.
Home of distinctly Australian concepts like The Dunny.
Escape This’s newest centre, on Collins Street, with horror and adventure worlds under one roof.
Coming soon, including what will be Queensland’s largest escape room centre.
Plus sequels to The Wizard’s Chamber and Buried Alive.
Escape This is Quality Tourism Accredited, and its rooms have won awards in Australia and overseas. See all awards →
The factory is a working production facility, not a public venue. To play The Dunny, book Manly or Perth CBD.
Escape This is Australia’s largest escape room operator, with venues in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. It also runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia, and it produces The Dunny.
Yes. Escape This runs its own escape room design studio and escape room factory in Australia, so rooms like The Dunny are produced in-house by Australia’s largest escape room operator.
The Escape This head office and escape room factory is at 21 River Road, Bayswater, Perth WA 6053. Australia’s largest escape room operator designs and builds its rooms there, including The Dunny, before installing them in venues around the country.
Escape This’s own in-house team designs and builds its rooms: escape room designers, script writers, puzzle planners, set builders, scenic artists and a props team, working from its design studio and escape room factory in Perth. The same team made The Dunny.
No. Escape This builds every experience in-house at its own production facility in Perth, not through a franchise or licensing model. It controls the story, gameplay, physical sets and technology of each room, The Dunny included.
Escape This was founded in Perth in 2020 by Bernie and Daniel Janes. It has since grown into Australia’s largest escape room operator, with its own escape room design studio and escape room factory, more than 500,000 players hosted and rooms like The Dunny.
Escape This runs 48 escape rooms across 5 venues in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, with Brisbane and the Gold Coast coming soon. Its Perth CBD venue on Hay Street Mall, one of the two homes of The Dunny, is the largest escape room venue in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Escape This factory currently has Accused, President’s Bunker, Aladdin, Wonderland, Area 51, Super Soldier and Dragon’s Dungeon in production, plus sequels to The Wizard’s Chamber and Buried Alive — built by the same team that made The Dunny.
Book The Dunny in Sydney or Perth. Every booking is private to your group.