I’ve already talked about the storytelling. Now I’m going to look at the game from a mechanical perspective, and my thoughts on it as a participant. I’m not sure how interesting this post will be to anyone other than me, but you’re very welcome to read along. Another fascinating aspect…
Apologies for the crudity of the title, but it was unavoidable. Read on to find out why it was central to our game of Watch the Skies. For those of you that read regularly you’ll know that one of my passions outside of escape rooms (and rugby) is megagames. I…
There’s quite a long time to go until this event, taking place on Saturday 20th August 2016, but due to massive demand I need to tell you about it now. I posted a little while ago about what a megagame is, and there’s another take on it here. While they…
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…
A big hello to any first time readers borne out of our meeting on Wednesday. I used to post here quite regularly. Please have a rummage through the archives, you might find something of note. An only slightly smaller hello to everyone else. What happened on Wednesday? I attended the…
