Designing Escape the Room Puzzle Games in E-Learning #198

Thank you Linda. It's a small, small world, isn't it. :)

Thanks a lot Linda for your kind words. ☺️

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.

Linda, thank you for taking a look! I used a higher resolution than I usually use for courses. It's 1200 x 675. Did it require scrolling on your laptop?