Escape Room
Continuing off a recent blog post, I’ve finally started work on the escape room.
I decided to buy a Pirate Escape Room, but since this is all printouts, I’m going to rework as much of this as I can into real props that aren’t just paper. The clues themselves are good, and the ideas are good, it’s just the printer paper format that isn’t working for me, If I had less time, this would be a great resource for a spur of the moment escape room, I just have extra time and want to make it a little more interactive.
I’ve spent the past couple days using the new Generative fill feature on Photoshop’s beta to edit new versions of the existing clues to make them a little more user-friendly and more like what I want out of this escape room for my students.
A good example of this is one of the first clues, a drawing of Blackbeard that is cropped to fit on letter sized paper. I decided to make this into a full-size poster, so I could decorate the room like a museum.
Another clue, this map had some difficult to read and small text, and also had some missing text. I remade this one in Illustrator.
There’s 3 clues as of right now that I’m trying to make into real props. The very first seashell clue in the second branch, the very first plank clue in the first branch, and one of the last clues in the first branch.
The shells were 3 cut-outs of shells with questions on them that pertained to a poster. I’ve changed the shells to be three message-in-a-bottles. Each bottle has a different letter that has the question you need, in code.
The plank is an image of a wooden plank with a three-digit number carved into it, which again is perfectly fine for a print-out escape room, but I want to make it a little more difficult. I’m going to make a sort of puzzle for it with a real wooden board that they then have to arrange to get the code.
Lastly, the clue is three pendents that are missing gems, and you have to add 4 gems to each to make a the shape of a number, revealing the code. I’m making the pendents a physical prop with foam core, paint, rhinestones, and a small wooden box each.
There’s many more clues I want to alter, but I haven’t gotten there yet. Here’s some of the document’s I’ve remade so far:
