Build Your Own Escape Room – IRL Escape Rooms are a phenomenon that has skyrocketed over the past few years. Challenging a group of friends to hack their way out of a puzzle box using their minds is a concept that translates perfectly into the world of video games. That’s exactly what developer Pine Studio has recreated with its upcoming game ‘Escape Simulator’.
This first-person conundrum challenges players to muster all their nerves to figure out how to escape 15 interactive escape rooms. It can be played in single player, but in true escape room fashion it can be experienced with up to three friends in co-op. There is also a character customization menu. You must be on the fly looking for your collaborative companions.
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Players can pick up and explore objects to their heart’s content. It evokes a similar feel to other puzzle games such as The Witness and The Room but with a hint of Resident Evil about it – without the terrifying monsters. Unlike real life escape rooms, you can pick up furniture and objects to your heart’s content. There’s no big brother watching you over these cameras, so mess up the room as much as you want! That might help you find an answer…
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All of the available rooms have completely different themes. One sees players navigate their way through an Egyptian Labyrinth. Other players blast off into space on a level set deep in the cosmos. It looks like there’s plenty of variety in the levels available at launch, which is great to see.
Perhaps the most interesting prospect of Escape Simulator, though, is the option to create your own puzzle box from scratch. Using the game’s asset library, players can use a level editor to build their own level ideas. Steam Workshop integration makes these ideas super easy to share too. It will be exciting to see what the community comes up with. It will also significantly expand the game’s content library, providing a wealth of new content beyond launch.
We are so pumped to see what players create with our level editor. We’re doing something we don’t think has ever been done before, and we’re sure the community is going to blow us away with their ingenuity,’
‘The last moment for us will be to get stuck in our own game – blocked by a player whose dedicated room is much smarter than us. That will be pretty neat.’
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Escape Simulator is set to release on October 19th on Steam. A demo is available for download right now if you fancy an early preview of what the game has to offer.
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A traditional escape room is where a handful of friends (usually 5-6) are locked in a room (or two), and using clues, they must solve all the puzzles in order to escape. The kicker? You only have an hour to do it. Businesses like this are popping up all over the country with clever themed rooms with tasks such as solving a mystery, preventing crime, defusing a bomb, searching for and rescuing a person, and others.
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In teaching, the use of escape rooms inspires creativity, sparks a little healthy competition, and engages puzzle lovers and even those hard-to-reach students. You will be surprised at the level of participation from all the students!
The great thing about using escape rooms in the classroom is that they can be created and adapted for all grades and ability levels.
There are several places where you can buy whole kits; however, they can be expensive. If you want to get started, here are some basic supplies that may be useful:
If you have never designed an escape room, the first time can be time consuming and maybe even confusing. Luckily, here’s an Escape Room Template you can use to get you started. Once you create and facilitate your first escape room, you’ll become more efficient and spend less time planning and more time having fun!
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Like any lesson planning, you want to start with the end in mind. What is your objective? What do you want students to be able to know and do? For example, an objective for an escape room reviewing The Giver might be: Students will be able to recall significant events in The Giver and understand how the plot achieves the underlying theme.
Once you have established your objective, then you will be ready to answer the next question: Now, how do they get there? This is where you plan your students’ escape.
Using the Escape Room Template, fill in the Information section. If you can’t think of a creative title right away, that’s okay. Come back to him. Next, you want to write a creative and compelling backstory. Like the introduction paragraph of an essay, this needs to grab the students’ attention and leave them excited to begin with. Your backstory needs to be context specific, including time period phrases and geographic descriptions (if applicable). Questions to think about: What country is this in? What period of time? Who are the characters? What kind of metaphorical barriers might students encounter? Keep it short, about a paragraph, because your students will want to get started straight away.
Next, decide which locks you will use. You may not know the combinations you will install yet. The combinations you set can be incorporated into the steps on the second page of the template. Come back to this section after you have created the steps students will take to escape the room.
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This is where you will spend most of your time. You should find the final answer to all the puzzles first and then work your way back. In the steps section of the template, create the clues, specify the lock combos or puzzles you will use, and how students will get to the next step. (Do they come to you for the next clue? Are the clues hidden? Do they get all the materials in advance, and thus have access to the next steps?)
Metacognition – thinking about thinking – is a powerful tool to help students dig a little deeper into the lesson and also to get feedback from students to use in the future. After the students have completed the escape room, ask them to reflect on their experience and what they learned. Here are some sample reflection questions:
These are gold for getting to know your students and being able to improve the experience for your next group of students.
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How To Create An Escape Room?
Escape Rooms is a cooperative learning game where students work in teams to solve a series of puzzles, collect codes or keys, and somehow gather their knowledge to “escape” the scenario. They can be as simple or complex as you like, but an effective Escape Room doesn’t have to be difficult to create. Creating an entire Escape Room can be a daunting task, but you absolutely CAN do it.
Today, we’re going to focus on how to create one short Mini-Escape experience. Your final game will be 10-15 minutes, and your students will get the same cooperation and critical thinking as a longer game.
When I create games for presentation or review, I want students to engage in a puzzle that relies on information they have learned from a close reading or from an entire unit. They figure out how to enter the answers, get bits of final code, and somehow decode a Secret Message. You can make the Secret Message anything you want, and you can link it to a writing activity after the game. In my Poetry Escape Room, I made this a Mystery Poem for students to decode and then analyze. In my Lord of the Flies Escape Room, students show how the Mountain Top Message (“Fancy thinking the Beast…”) illustrates a theme present in the novel. This is a great way to move from the energy