Aftermath Islands Partner Hourglass Escapes to Create Unique Virtual Escape Room Experiences for Its Metaverse

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TORONTO, ON, BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS and SEATTLE, WA / ACCESSWIRE / January 25, 2022 / Oasis Digital Studios Limited ("Oasis"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Liquid Avatar Technologies Inc.(CSE:LQID)(OTCQB:LQAVF)(FRA:4T51) ("Liquid Avatar Technologies" or the "Company"), a global blockchain and fintech solutions company, focused on digital identity, integrated avatars and the metaverse, is pleased to announce that its controlled subsidiary, Aftermath Islands Metaverse Limited has signed an initial partnership agreement with Hourglass Escapes LLC, a Seattle based, award winning, real world and virtual escape room creator that has a number of key licenses including Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn^TM voted the best remote escape room in the USA in 2020 according to Escape Authority and Escape the Roomers. Aftermath Islands and Hourglass are creating and building several themed virtual escape rooms that will allow Aftermath Islands players to participate in virtual team adventures and earn Aftermath Credits, the planned metaverse currency, and limited edition NFTs. The first Aftermath escape room test games are slated for mid-2022 as part of the Aftermath Islands initial experience launch.

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With over 2,000 Escape Rooms in the US and Canada, and the phenomenon growing globally with over 50,000 escape rooms hosting millions of players, especially the millennial generation, IBISWorld in its September 2020 paper reported that the industry had grown to over USD $465 Million annually in the US alone. Since 2016, Hourglass' team of award-winning movie, television and theme park creators and designers have focused on creating experiences that promote entertainment and team building in an exciting and fun interactive environment. With the pandemic, Hourglass enhanced its focus to create human avatar and first person view enabled escape rooms. Aftermath Islands, together with Liquid Avatar Technologies' wholly owned subsidiary, Oasis Digital Studios and their Meta Hero Project are planning to work to enable immersive 3D technologies to enhance the virtual escape experience.

"We are very excited to be a part of the creative team of Aftermath Islands. We are looking forward to bringing escape rooms into the metaverse and crafting compelling stories to gamify the virtual space", said Seth Wolfson - Owner, Creative Director Hourglass Escapes.

Aftermath Islands has already initiated a successful launch of the initial first 3 phases of its virtual land sales program and is planning to grant access to the virtual escape rooms from a number of different quest points on islands and through the upcoming Aftermath Islands Explorers' League, a community center that will manage many operations and services for the Aftermath Islands Metaverse.

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"We are excited to work with Seth and his team at Hourglass as we look to develop a wide range of virtual and interactive experiences for Aftermath Islands players and virtual landowners," said David Lucatch, Managing Director Aftermath Islands Metaverse, Oasis Digital Studios and CEO of Liquid Avatar Technologies.

"Virtual escape rooms are a natural fit for our environment as we look to create theme-based quests, entertainment, education and rewards that allow our participants to have an ever-increasing number of activities in the Aftermath Islands Metaverse."

Aftermath Islands Metaverse is also exploring and welcomes partnerships, that will create new and interactive virtual experiences, including escape rooms.

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