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 you may have noticed I haven’t published many reviews recently. There are a few reasons for this that I’m not going to get into right now. But my lack of reviews doesn’t mean I’ve not been playing games. I’ve been recording all these games in a google sheet and…
As a Lancastrian (let’s not bring Greater Manchester into this) I’m contractually obliged to hate Yorkshire. But in reality I don’t mind it at all (some parts are actually quite nice). If for nothing else, it gave substance for one of my all-time favourite comedy sketches: This last weekend…
I’ve put off writing this post for far too long. Unfortunately that means the ‘enthusiasm’ which I used to fuel the criticism in the earlier sections has long since waned, now that I want to be positive. But they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so hopefully these…
For someone who doesn’t get a lot of time to blog I seem to be spending a lot of time on one subject, eh? Now that I’ve got all that qualifying stuff off my chest I can hopefully be a little more objective. This post will be about the Red…
As I was putting the finishing touches to part 2 of my Red Bull Mind Gamers Recap yesterday I was quite content that most of my (carefully-considered, composed) ranting was over. This chapter was intended to be a quick overview of how we struggled, or not, with the other puzzles and…
Okay, I know why you’re here. You want to see me pass some opinion on the Red Bull Mind Gamers World Championship. Maybe even get ‘controversial’. Maybe, but first: I want to talk about biscuits. Wait, what? Stay with me here. While we were out in Budapest a much bigger…
I know a lot of people are clambering for information and opinion on the Red Bull Mind Gamers World Championship which I participated in last week. I’ll do what I can, and hopefully connect people to other relevant content. But the question is where to start? I don’t have the…
This review of Revenge of the Sheep was based on a visit from April 2016. What comes after puzzles, theming and story? That’s open to interpretation. The theoretical ‘fourth generation’ is about somehow going beyond the normal definition/expectation of an escape game. It’s a very exclusive club at the moment:…
