Fair warning: This post has approximately nothing to do with escape games. I’m sat here quite upset today. Upset because I don’t get the whole “woohoo New Year’s Eve!!!!!!1” thing and feel like I’m missing something. Upset because I’m already sick of seeing all the “new year, new me” and…
What generation are we up to with escape games now? Fourth? Fifth? Nth? The answer is of course “shut up”. But regardless of meaningless taxonomies, I feel like escape room puzzles, and in particular their answers, should be ‘better’, more elegant. I’m not talking about use of technology here; padlocks…
As most of you will be aware, the Escape Room Industry Conference (ERIC to his friends) took place a couple of months ago in Nottingham. It was an excellently produced and run event that I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at. But why was I invited?…
As part of my quest to explore many different areas on the fun spectrum, yesterday I attended my first game tournament. I’ll be reviewing the day shortly, but before that I’m gonna talk about some of what led me there. Long time readers may remember that I attributed my drop-off…
Don’t let the slightly dry title fool you, this post is going to get very nerdy. But it does have a pie chart, and we all love pie charts! A few weeks ago there was some discussion on Escape Room Enthusiasts about some escape room themes being so widely used that they’d become…
A couple of weeks ago TheLogicEscapesMe challenged me to come up with a visual representation of the ‘fun spectrum’. The fun spectrum being the term I coined to cover lots of different activities that are related to, or could possibly be liked by people who enjoy, escaping. At the time…
You may have noticed me using the term ‘megagame’ quite a bit recently, both here on the site and on Twitter. But a lot of you probably haven’t heard the term before. So what is a megagame? What seems like quite a straightforward question really isn’t. In fact it usually…
As promised (although it has just crept past midnight!) I’ve updated the rankings page based on the 30 reviews I’ve completed. The highest new entry is Escape Quest‘s Bad Clown straight in at #3. I didn’t give much away in my review because it’s incredibly hard to talk about it…
AKA a calendar! As is written in big red letters in the header, one of the goals of Really Fun is to help people find fun things to do. So alongside articles explaining what things are, I thought it would be a good idea to collect all these events…
I almost missed it, but assuming I can get this post published in the next 48 minutes, today is QMSM’s birthday! It was a cold and boring Wednesday afternoon when I decided to stop thinking about creating a blog and actually published something. Since then there has been a few…
