In this last post on Escape Room Project, I am reflecting on how the background research supports our escape room design, I am telling about the lessons that I have learned from the experience of creating our own escape room, and I am acknowledging the major weaknesses and strengths of our project. You may also find the link of gameplay videos of play groups recorded in the two days of running our escape room. Affects of background research on the project: I have completed se

In this third post on the Escape Room Project, I am explaining the process of connecting the puzzles and working on the game set up for a holistic player experience. Please read Escape Room W1 and W2 posts first, before starting to read this one. Since all the puzzles of our game were designed by a different member of the team, they needed to be arranged so that one puzzle can input the output of another puzzle, leading the players to find the result (formula) and finish the

In this second post on the Escape Room Project, I am explaining the design and production process of the puzzles that I focused on. Initially, I had several ideas for tasks and puzzles to include in the room; you can read about the rest from the Failed/Incomplete Attempts section below. Eventually, I decided to focus my time and energy on one of the puzzles I chose, which is the Mini Zen Garden. Later, I included the Cosmic Calendar to the game, and connected it to the Mini Z

In this first post on the Escape Room group design and development process, I am telling about the work-in-progress theme of the Escape Room, and later in my second post I will focus on the puzzles I created for the project. Project Brief: Play-time: 30 minutes Number of players: Must be 3-4 Project start date: 1 November Wednesday, 17 Escape Room running dates: 4 sessions of Thursday, 16 and 4 sessions on Friday, 17 November 2017 Room access time and date for set-up, decorat