Escape the Room Games #198: Challenge | Recap
Challenge of the Week
This week, your challenge is to share an interactive demo based on the popular escape the room games. You can choose an...
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Hi James!
I can imagine this must have taken a ton of time. The intro is beautiful and sets the stage perfectly. Beyond that I'm not able to do anything besides grab the lantern and the rope, so I'll be interested to find out what I'm missing!
I can imagine this must have taken a ton of time. The intro is beautiful and sets the stage perfectly. Beyond that I'm not able to do anything besides grab the lantern and the rope, so I'll be interested to find out what I'm missing!
Thanks, Jackie for the kind words - I always enjoy your entries in the challenges and I'm thrilled you checked it out! I started noodling on this on Friday morning and procrastinated on a current - but less fun! - project over the weekend. The intro alone started to balloon out of control as I found more background images and thought of more people I wanted to include. ;) I also started without music during what was supposed to be a 5-second intro and decided I had to include a song that Indiana Jones fans may remember from one of the films.
I had a friend of mine go through it quickly and I had to give hints - and I almost decided to code in hint pop-ups conditionally based on what items had been picked up - but I had to call it done at some point. I may revisit as a portfolio piece and code in some help along the way.
Here’s the solution. << SPOILERS AHEAD! >>
1) In any order (some in-game pop-ups differ depending on the sequence at the beginning):
Pick up the rope > Use the rope with an amphora (containing oil) to make a greasy rope > use the greasy rope on the center torch [clicking on the torch before the step below gives a little hint of what’s to come]
Pick up the dagger > Use the dagger on the bags on the ledge [clicking on the torch before the step above gives a slightly different hint of what’s to come]
2) Then slide the torch (slider) down a little more than halfway until the rock wheel has a glyph aligned in the same direction as the carving in the rock that appeared when the dagger pierced the bags of sand.
3) Click on the carving on the rock in the foreground.
I had a friend of mine go through it quickly and I had to give hints - and I almost decided to code in hint pop-ups conditionally based on what items had been picked up - but I had to call it done at some point. I may revisit as a portfolio piece and code in some help along the way.
Here’s the solution. << SPOILERS AHEAD! >>
1) In any order (some in-game pop-ups differ depending on the sequence at the beginning):
Pick up the rope > Use the rope with an amphora (containing oil) to make a greasy rope > use the greasy rope on the center torch [clicking on the torch before the step below gives a little hint of what’s to come]
Pick up the dagger > Use the dagger on the bags on the ledge [clicking on the torch before the step above gives a slightly different hint of what’s to come]
2) Then slide the torch (slider) down a little more than halfway until the rock wheel has a glyph aligned in the same direction as the carving in the rock that appeared when the dagger pierced the bags of sand.
3) Click on the carving on the rock in the foreground.
- Jackie and I got stuck in the same place. I'm terrible at these! I only did it once with my friends. One wrote a book about Houdini and we still couldn't escape. Thanks for sharing it and spending all that time.
- Jodi - thanks for checking it out!
- I did it!!!! Well, technically you did it because you told me how to do it, James - but it worked!!!
Really beautifully done. Congratulations!
