# Cody Borst **Creative Technology | Immersive Design** Denver, Colorado Website: https://codyborst.com Cody Borst is a technologist and designer specializing in immersive experiences, escape room design, VR/AR development, creative technology, lighting installations, and interactive exhibition design. Award-winning designer based in Denver, Colorado. ## About Creating impactful experiences with creative technology and thoughtful design strategy. ### Roles - **Director Technology Innovation** - Meow Wolf - **Founder** - Escape Realm: Escape Room Design & Production - **Founder** - The Arcane Society - Immersive Arts Collective & ARG - **Creator** - Sneaky Cards - Social Card Games - **Game Engine and VR/AR Contractor** - Oculus + Unreal Engine - **Speaker** on Immersive Design & Themed Entertainment (Denver Startup Week, IAAPA, Denver Immersive Summit, American Alliance of Museums, WESTAF Creative Vitality Summit) ## Projects ### Cryptic **Immersive Live Show with OddKnock Productions & Fictive - Denver, CO - 2026** Cryptic merges live performance with cutting-edge technology to embody a tale rich with mystery, adventure, and ancient power. Guests explore the Cryptic Keep, a quirky roadside attraction that goes off the rails as an ancient power long forgotten awakens. Brought to life by OddKnock Productions in collaboration with Fictive, a creative venture by Cody Borst. Cody executive produced the show and was responsible for all show technology, including a custom show control system driving lighting, sound, projection, fog, and interactive systems. Site: https://crypticdenver.com/ ### 16th St Art **16th Street Fingerprints Project - Downtown Denver, CO - 2025** A window display lighting and art installation produced with Starry Night Productions as part of the 16th Street Fingerprints Project on Denver's 16th Street Mall. The piece represented the Barnum neighborhood in downtown Denver. The project brings kinetic light and visual storytelling into the public realm, transforming a window along the mall into a shared night-time experience. Lighting design and programming, plus an interactive trigger for viewers to activate the lights. ### The Solarium **Interactive Lighting Installation Aurora Borealis Festival - 2025** Solarium is an interactive lighting installation created for the Aurora Borealis Festival 2025. Guests shape light, color, and motion through direct interaction, turning the installation into a living solar landscape that responds to presence and play. ### Sips (With A Z) **Bar Lounge Meow Wolf - 2023** This luxury travel lounge bar resides in Convergence Station Denver. Contributions included project coordination, design, technical integration, installation support, and graffiti art. ### Vertimetric **Tensile Sculpture For Meow Wolf - 2022** As the lead artist, designer, and project manager, oversaw this three-floor installation that utilizes synchronized light and sound to create the illusion of movement through geometric dimensions. Optical mirrors enhance its vertical impact, allowing observers to experience the central element from multiple vantage points - both above and below - as they move around it. Lighting design by Ezrah Bartone and sound design by Eric Davis. ### Paradox **Escape Room For Rabbit Hole Louisville, CO - 2018** Enter the secret workshop to help an eccentric inventor with his incredible time machine. This thematic escape room experience uses a blend of mechanical effects and technology to send guests on a journey filled with twists and turns. Written, designed, fabricated, and produced from the ground up, including all scenic and technological elements. Features a laser obstacle course with fog, magic mirror display, projection-mapped clock, trick paintings, frozen coolant canisters, secret doors, polyphonic responsive audio, 8 subwoofers and 11 speakers, dynamic and reactive lighting, and more. ### Van Gogh Alive **Immersive Projection Show Produced By DCPA - 2021** Designed by Grande Experiences, Van Gogh Alive is a 40-minute walk-through projection experience featuring Van Gogh's art on 32 large-scale projection screens. As technology lead for the Denver production: assisted with projector and sound system setup and installation, configured projection mapping in WATCHOUT, and managed the content server throughout the show's production. ### Frost Base Z **Escape Room For Rabbit Hole Louisville, CO - 2019** Cutting-edge escape room experience with numerous special effects driven by a custom-built show control system, including a simulated ride vehicle, CO2 fog effects, transducers, wind effects, fiber optics, atomized fog, water mist, compressed air blasts, thermal and humidity control, organic rockwork, automatic doors, laser effects, linear actuators, dynamic and responsive lighting, 32 speaker drivers, and a fully interconnected input and logic control system. Designed, fabricated, and produced for Rabbit Hole Escape Room in Louisville, Colorado. ### Acoustic Installation **Architectural Acoustic Feature Meow Wolf - 2023** Designed and oversaw this architectural feature at Convergence Station Denver. Goal: create an acoustic dampening system that reduces audio reverberation while maintaining a unique and artistic aesthetic. Installation by Acoustical Elements LLC, panel fabrication by Kinetics Noise Control. ### Camp Christmas **Immersive Holiday Walkthrough Show Produced By DCPA & Hanzon Studios - 2020-2022** Festive Christmas walkthrough experience featuring spectacular lighting displays, decorations, and holiday cheer. As lead technical designer: created audio sound systems, animated lighting displays, projection-mapped sheep, and a virtual camp app where guests could explore the campgrounds, complete interactive activities, and earn badges. ### Meow Wolf Lighting **Architectural Lighting Programming for Meow Wolf Denver, CO** Special event lighting show programmed using Pharos Designer for the exterior architectural lighting surrounding Meow Wolf's Denver Exhibition. Fixture installation by Visual Interest. Drone footage filmed by Cody Borst. ### Providence XP **Vintage Computer Terminals For The Immersive Show From On High - 2022** Unique computer terminals featured in "From On High" by Oddknock Productions, with fully interactive gameplay similar to a choose-your-own-adventure. Features guest choice, tracking, leaderboards, sound, and thematic vintage effects. Designed a custom clean kiosk OS for Raspberry Pi running a local interactive JavaScript and HTML gameplay system with local storage for data collection. ### Ruins of the Mystic Temple **Escape Room For Rabbit Hole Louisville, CO - 2018** Treasure hunter themed Mayan temple escape room with story-motivated interactive set pieces, puzzles, and special effects including dynamic speakers, wind effects, water-based fog, actuators, reactive touch inputs, weight sensors, and more. ### Pipe Organ Interactive **Interactive Mechanical and Synthesized Pipe Organ - 2022** Led redesign of a digital synth pipe organ, creating new handle assemblies with pressurized gas linear actuators, durable Delrin construction with steel cores, and an embedded accelerometer with a slip ring for seamless digital input. Also developed an interactive Easter egg feature activated by playing a specific sequence on the organ, with audio and creative direction. ### Spygames **Escape Room Greeley, CO - 2017** Join the CID agency as an espionage recruit and prove you have what it takes to be a true spy in this thrill-filled training course. ### Sneaky Cards **Social Card Game With Digital Integrated App - 2014** An international phenomenon that encourages play and exploration in everyday life. Designed and produced this unique card game, published by Gamewright Games and sold internationally. Success led to a sequel and integrated companion app. ### Orbital **Escape Room Greeley, CO - 2017** Unique escape room featuring a repeatable collection of procedural puzzles, auto-scaling difficulty, and a fully controlled show system. Designed and produced this experience. ### The Wonderland Society **Box Puzzle Game - 2019** Puzzle box game with a variety of puzzles through a mixed-media packet. Helped develop puzzles, story, and a web app for clueing and answer verification. ### Arcane Society ARG **A Secret Society Puzzle Hunt - 2018** Founded a hybrid Alternate Reality Game and puzzle hunt group known as the Arcane Society. Seasonal hunts invite participants to join virtual and physical team adventures engaging with escape rooms, websites, and mysterious locations. ### D&D Companion App **D&D Companion App, Trapdoor Technologies - 2014** Worked on Project Morningstar, an Official D&D Companion App, as a front-end developer and integrator. Collaborated with Trapdoor, Hasbro, and Wizards of the Coast, as well as design and backend engineering teams. ### Laser Cage **Mystic Escape Room Littleton, CO - 2022** A laser net that physically interacts with guests in a heist-themed escape room, using photocell sensors to detect unintentional alarm triggers. Features fog activation through DMX control and integrated sound effects. ### Saberclaw **Saber Sword Display Vanderbain Customs - 2021** Flat-pack product for displaying lightsaber-style sword hilts, with embedded LEDs and slots for crystals. Designed for easy CNC or laser fabrication at scale. ### Grimstacks **Escape Room Northglenn, CO - 2016** Grimstacks Books & Bindings is a mysterious oddities shop whose owner is up to something mischievous. Explore the magic and fantasy of an immersive world filled with tomes, puzzles, and grand effects. ## Keywords Cody Borst, creative technology, immersive design, Meow Wolf, escape rooms, interactive installations, lighting design, projection mapping, Denver, Colorado, Oddknock Productions, themed entertainment, VR, AR, experience design, show control, puzzle design, exhibition design ## Contact - Website: https://codyborst.com - LinkedIn: available via the site header - Location: Denver, Colorado