I’m not sure this is really an MM, as I’m not really proposing anything new, but thought it was worth commenting on anyway (and it’s definitely Monday). In some of the recent twitter chat (I’m not going to try and portmanteau that) we’ve been talking about how UV torches seem…
I know a few of you had already noticed ‘my favourite rooms’ page, where I’ve been ranking each of the rooms I’ve visited after I’ve reviewed them. But it’s been nagging me that “favourite” suggests picking out individual games, whereas what’s there is a full list of every game I’ve…
If you don’t know what Themed Thursday is please read this. Today’s object is a painting. Next week’s ‘object’ is betrayal! It’s awesome that the global escape game community has grown so much, and continues to grow so quickly, that there are now so many sources and articles to read…
I was delighted to get an email from my friend Helen saying “my plans have fallen through for Sunday night. Fancy doing something, maybe escaping?” Not delighted that her plans had fallen through of course, but that someone else had initiated a plan to go escaping rather than my constant…
A slight twist on the original definition of a Mechanics Monday, instead of an element that’s constant in every game, I’d like to discuss an element you some of the time – red herrings – and maybe start some discussion on whether they’re a good thing for escape games or not.…
As we’ve already got a plan for next week’s Themed Thursday I thought I’d share this with you today. I thought I’d had a really good original idea for an escape room. It would be set in Paris and your daughter has been kidnapped. You take on the role of…
The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that when @Escapistto first coined the phrase he said “Themed Thursdays” rather than “Theme Thursdays” as I’ve preferred. The reason for this is that it wasn’t intended to be purely about escape room themes. Just that posts on a Thursday – a potential midweek…
Unsurprisingly when people are coming up with themes and plots for escape games they think about situations where you’re trapped inside somewhere you don’t want to be. Prison is the most obvious example, but we certainly can’t say that’s an underused theme as there are two jail breaks in Manchester…
Reviewing a new room is fun enough, but visiting a new site is better, and a new operator better still. And I got do that twice this last weekend! But first things first. As mentioned by ExitGames, Escaping is exploding in Liverpool at the moment. Not long ago Clue HQ…
Prologue: I started writing this post on Wednesday, and planned to finish it the next evening. Then when I got home from work on Thursday I saw this tweet from @EscapistTO. I’ve said before that great minds think alike but this is getting ridiculous! Anyway, I haven’t read that post yet…
