A Lost Memory is a free digital game created by Creators United, a collaboration of escape game companies in The Netherlands.
Format
Style of Play: something between a light puzzle hunt and an online point-and-click adventure game
Required Equipment: computer with internet connection, pen and paper.
There’s only one puzzle that is easier solved when printed. Otherwise, just have pen and paper ready to solve puzzles and keep notes.
Note that one puzzle required dialing a phone number in The Netherlands.
Recommended Team Size: 1-3
Play Time: 3-10 hours, per the website. Our reviewers took closer to 3 hours.
Price: free
Booking: play at any time
Description
Players click on interesting parts of scenes in the game to reveal puzzles and information. The game asks you to enter codes and solutions as appropriate. Many puzzles require internet searches, but this often seems reasonable in context of the story.
It’s finally happening. We’re N95ing up to play our first two real-life room escapes since the first week of March.
The location has been specifically selected and we are taking a few extra precautions.
What games are we playing?
How are we going about this?
How will it go?
Find out at our post-play livestream on Sunday, November 8th. This will be an exclusive conversation with our Patreon supporters (at any backer level) as we try to get more creative with the ways that we reward them for helping to fund the growth and sustainability of Room Escape Artist.
Details
Date: Sunday, November 8th
Time: 5:00PM Eastern Time
Access: Patreon supporters will receive the link through Patreon
Topics: We’ll be discussing the games that we played that day as well as our thoughts and observations on the current state of the industry. We will of course have a live Q&A where we chat about whatever our supporters have on their minds.
Welcome to our new backers: Angie Meyers, Bronna Butler, and Farand Pawlak. We’re thrilled to have your support.
And thank you to everyone who continues to help us each month:
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So many people told me at RECON that they were eager to watch Jason Richard’s tech session over and over again. It’s loaded with fantastic information for the aspiring escape room technologist. During RECON, this talk inspired an impromptu 2-hour conversation in the escape room tech channel, so we are thrilled to share it once again with the community:
Don’t forget to check out this companion document compiled by Hivemind reviewer Brett Kuehner. It’s loaded with all of the tools and programs that Jason references.
Featured Talk Information
Make It Work: Leveling Up Your Escape Room Tech
Details: Originally presented on Sunday, August 23 at 16:00 (New York)
Speaker: Jason Richard
Company: Steal and Escape
Abstract: Jason Richard is a self-taught escape room technologist. With solid game design principles realized through technology, he has invigorated his games. In this talk, you enter Jason’s workshop for an introduction to tools and techniques that you can use in your escape room – everything from how to solder to working with raspberry pi and arduino. Coming away from this talk, you’ll have the direction you need to dive into escape room technology. He can’t make you an expert, but he can set you on your path.
Continued Conversation
We invite you to join Thursday’s video watch party and conversation with Jason in the RECON Discord.
RECON ’20 was Room Escape Artist’s digital escape room convention featuring 15 pre-recorded talks, live Q&As, and over 30 exhibitors. We had over 900 attendees from 62 countries watching and participating live.
Each of the 15 talks will be made available for free on our YouTube channel this fall. We’ll release one each week.
Villains Lair is a real-life escape room livestreamed and played through an avatar, created by Fuzzy Logic in Downers Grove, IL.
Format
Style of Play: real-life escape room livestreamed and played through an avatar
Required Equipment: computer with an internet connection
Recommended Team Size: 2-5
Play Time: 60 minutes
Price: $69.99 for small groups or $99.99 for larger groups
Booking: book online for a specific time slot
Description
This is a standard escape room played via avatar over Zoom. It uses Trello for inventory management. You’re a villain and you want to fire your mega-weapon to take over the city.
