How to spend halloween party in the laser tag style?

Halloween is a mystical night, when different evil spirits gather together, they are eager to arrange a noisy sabbath. Usually this holiday is associated with pumpkins, blood and dead.

In our country there is a common way to celebrate Halloween – put on makeup, dress up as a witch or some dead person and go to a party. But there are many new things in the entertainment world, therefore, the option of a feast or a disco can be left for New Year or mother's anniversary. But Halloween you can celebrate with your noisy bunch of friends in laser tag club, there you can arrange a real battle of the dead and try to save the world. This is where you can truly immerse yourself in the festive atmosphere and have unforgettable impressions that you will definitely want to come back for.

The ideas how to organize Halloween, which starts on the night of October 31st will be helpful for:

• The owners of laser tag clubs can suggest a new game format and attract new audience.
• Professionals involved in the field of organizing holidays can celebrate kids or grown up birthday parties, meeting of classmates or graduates, corporate events and even weddings.
• The owners of entertainment facilities – cafes, night clubs, hotels – can expand the range of services with the theme party.
• A friendly company or colleagues can think in detail and organize themselves an unbelievable night on All Saints' Day.

To make a good fest, and in the night of dead all the living survived and stayed pleased, it is necessary to know the peculiarities of arranging laser tag games and to work out the ideas of their implementation in a thematic holiday.

THE PROCEDURE FOR PLANNING A LASER TAG EVENING FOR HALLOWEEN

Scenario is a basis for every celebration; therefore, you should start with thinking it in detail. But before that, it is important to decide where and for what company this holiday is going to be organized.

Because of the fact that this holiday is a holiday of “fear”, it will be better to keep children away from it, therefore the main participants are teenagers and adults. A funny party with laser tag fight, snacks and dancing till dawn can be organized as:

• A corporate party where colleagues will gather.
• Alumni meetings.
• Events for students of secondary and higher educational institutions.
• Plain friendly meeting
• Family gatherings, where relatives and friends will gather.

WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE TO ORGANIZE HALLOWEEN

Because of the fact that Halloween celebration is in the deep autumn, weather conditions is a kind of obstacle to arrange outdoor games. Because of that laser tag is better to be kept indoors.

For those who are brave and thirsty for thrills laser tag can be arranged outdoors. In advance you need to take care of warm clothes and appropriate paraphernalia that will convey the atmosphere of the holiday.

The most popular options for organizing laser tag parties for Halloween:

1. To organize a full-fledged calibration in a special laser tag club (the whole program of the celebration is included: from transfer and snacks to laser tag fights and contests with prizes).
2. To organize independent trip to laser tag club for conducting a battle as a part of the main celebration, which you can continue anywhere you want (café, shopping center, rent a house, your own apartment, night club).
3. To order an on-site laser tag  for yourself, including it in the event program as part of the entertainment.  These fights will not leave anyone indifferent. You can order an on-site laser tag anywhere you want: to the hotel, to the territory of the campsite, to your own cottage and so in.

The specifics of the preparation will depend on the type of laser tag, whereas it is outdoor or indoor, that you will include in your program.

WHICH CLOTHES DO YOU NEED FOR LASER TAG FIGHTS?

Usually, special vests are issued in laser tag clubs, or they can advice you to wear comfortable sport clothes. Since the games assume running with guns, hiding behind the obstacles and other active exercises, it is important for clothes to be loose and masking. For example, dark-colored clothes are popular in the twilight, and light-colored clothes - on the snow surface.  

The rules can be ignored in the Halloween night, because the Halloween costumes are usually black, white, red as blood and have bright elements of orange, yellow, red and green tones. However, you always should take into consideration the fact that clothes must not interfere with running and create risky situations for the health of players, so it is better to change long dresses, robes, raincoats and floor-length capes or abandon them.

To replace heels and business shoes, you need to bring comfortable sports sneakers or sneakers. So, laser tag participants should know about upcoming game, it should not be a surprise for them, they must think over the appropriate image for the upcoming event.

If you can know the scenario in advance, you can make a costume battle. To do this, half of the team must put on a pre-agreed costume, for example zombies or vampires.  It will be simpler to distinguish the allies and enemies during the buttle. But you can also indicate the roles with the help of paraphernalia and equipment for laser tag games.

THE DESIGN OF THE ROOM AND HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS

To plunge into the atmosphere of real mysticism and horror, you need to think over the design of the hall, where the game will take place. You can use hand-made decoration:

• Pumpkins, carved from a real vegetable or made from other different materials.
• Net made from gauze threads - looks very realistic.
• Blood splashes from ketchup, beetroot syrup or paint.
• Candles for making semi – darkness and other lightning gadgets in the form of massive lampshades.
• Garlands in the Halloween style – with the figures of different evil spirits – cats, bats, skulls, spiders, Grim Reaper, the witch's hat and broom, ghosts, pumpkins and so on.
• Balloons (usually for Halloween the balloons of orange, yellow, painted with black marker are used).

You can decorate the hall all by yourself or it can be done by professions. Many ideas you can find on the internet.

THE ORDER OF THE EVENT

If a laser tag club suggests a comprehensive service, then you can offer the guests a full range:

• Transfer from the gathering point to the club and back again
• Services of a professional make-up artist
• Holding a laser tag game
• Snacks
• A festive show.
• Contests and prizes
• Photo shoot

But even when organizing independently, it is important not to forget the main components of any festive event. After the arrival of the guests, you can deal with their image, because not everyone has the opportunity to apply makeup on their own, and this is perhaps the most interesting thing when once a year you can try on the image of some kind of villain or the living dead.

It is highly advisable to organize at least a small buffet so that guests do not get hungry before arriving at the main party venue, if you decide to stop by the laser tag game along the way. Light snacks in the form of terrifying Halloween paraphernalia will be relevant here. You can also buy food in the store or cook it yourself, or assemble it together, for example, everyone brings something with them. Fruits, vegetable and meat cuts, sandwiches, sweets, etc. are suitable for the buffet. Design options are limited only by your imagination. Usually, pumpkins are made from tangerines, some scary things are made from bananas, sandwiches and sweets are decorated in the form of spiders, zombies, fingers, eyes, brains, salads are presented in the form of skulls, pumpkins, etc. Ideas, again, can be spied on the World Wide Web.

In addition to the laser tag battle itself, the celebration of the event should include a show program, animation, fun contests, and, of course, prizes and presents. Quests and contests corresponding to the theme of the evening should also be thought out in advance. It is important not to miss the competition for the best costume on such an evening, additionally announcing several more nominations (the most original image, the scariest makeup, etc.). As presents, you can give guests small souvenirs with the logo of the laser tag club (if the holiday is organized by the club) or Halloween paraphernalia (pens, notebooks, key chains, soft toys, etc.)

Guests will certainly want to keep their impressions in the form of photos, so it is preferable to organize a special corner for photo shoots, decorating it in the right style. You can also invite a professional photographer or videographer to capture the best moments of the party. Videography is especially useful during a laser tag battle to capture the most interesting things.

LASER TAG GAME SCENARIOS

Usually, game scripts are taken from various computer games or popular movies. In the case of Halloween, you can come up with something new or adapt existing scenarios for a themed holiday.

The software allows you to set up laser tag equipment for various scenarios, so club owners may well implement the first option of holding games - to prepare unusual plots. If the holiday is organized independently, then you can play games according to the usual rules - only in appropriate costumes — it's even easier in terms of preparation. For example, any heroes can participate in the game "every man for himself" - witches, ghosts, death with a scythe, the Joker, Dracula, the vampire queen, etc. In team games where two teams fight, people and zombies, humans and vampires, female evil spirits against male evil spirits, etc. can act against each other.

The living dead or zombies. Two teams – zombies and humans - are fighting for survival. Out of 10 people, the role of a zombie is given to two. If the dead fall into people, they do not die but move to the opposite side. Zombies have more health units, and "humans" have an inverse mode enabled (so that infected participants can be identified, who are now fighting for zombies). The game continues until one of the teams is completely destroyed.

The zombie boss. In this scenario, a team of people is fighting against a team of zombies led by an almost invulnerable boss, who has increased the number of rounds and health units. Affected people also switch to the side of zombies, so the team of human players must have reverse mode enabled.

The battle against vampires. The peculiarity of this scenario is that with equal preset weapon parameters, a team of humans and vampires are fighting. If you hit an opponent, you can replenish your vitality by the amount of damage done (the main condition is that you cannot exceed the starting health parameter).

The Lord of the vampires. In this scenario, two teams are fighting, but the vampires have a Lord who has increased health and damage. And the human team has snipers, stormtroopers and medics. The equipment must be configured accordingly.

Ultimate weapon. Two teams are playing. Points are awarded for killing an opponent. The team that scored the most points wins. Scenario devices are installed in the game, for example, a base where you can restore health, an Arsenal – to replenish ammunition by any participant from two teams (their number in the Arsenal is limited).

If you want, you can come up with your own scenarios, taking into account the age of the players, the number of participants, their physical fitness and previous experience in laser tag games. Tasks can be complicated or made simpler. The options can be discussed in advance with the organizers of the event so that the participants are prepared, and the game turns out to be exciting and gambling.

Laser tag battle is probably the best idea for Halloween, because when else will you fight a zombie or a vampire clan, if not on the most mystical night of the living dead. There is still a reason for ordinary gatherings in a cafe, but the chance that comes once a year should not be missed. You will definitely remember such battle for a long time.