Show HN: Escape Team

[hemmert]

https://www.escape-team.com

[hemmert]

I finally found the time to update my wife‘s and my moonlight project: Escape Team. Have fun defusing those bombs :-)

(a.k.a. ”How to survive mandatory family get togethers over the holiday season“)

[c17r → hemmert]

Doesn't come up for me, timed out

[c17r → c17r]

well, it's loading now but the document is taking around 10s to load.

[hemmert → c17r]

Let's hope that server will not collapse under today's attention overload ;)

[hemmert]

I also made a little mission editor for it:

https://www.escape-team.com/create

People are using it to create custom escape rooms, at home, at work and especially in education. Finally, a chemistry class about defusing a bomb. :-)

[hemmert → hemmert]

It also supports MP3 audio narration in user-created missions, but only via linking to your own Dropbox, which would host the MP3.

(I‘m super paranoid about hosting user-created content and copyright stuff.)

[Mizza]

Love it! Great initiative, these games are fun. We played a lot of 'Space Team' on the phone, cool to see collaborative puzzle games evolve.

It super, super bugs me that black has two light square bishops in the chess puzzle :) (and the labels are the wrong way round)

[hemmert → Mizza]

And here my chess expertise shows its boundaries ;) I‘ll see if I can fix those bishops and labels :)

[hemmert → Mizza]

Space Team was indeed the inspiration for the name, as well as the mechanic of „Keep talking and nobody explodes“, having physical paper on the table.

[Malcx → Mizza]

> It super, super bugs me that black has two light square bishops in the chess puzzle

Clearly one of them is a promoted pawn.

[hemmert]

Here's also a starter kit for custom missions:

https://www.escape-team.com/free-escape-room-diy-kit

[jepler]

Not to be confused with https://tmbg.bandcamp.com/album/the-escape-team

[nehushtan → jepler]

confused me, haha! http://tmbw.net/wiki/The_Escape_Team

[jokethrowaway]

Lovely project - but I hate the printing paper bit.

Not only it's creating rubbish, I don't even own a printer, so I would need to go to the local library to print a new mission.

[RobKohr → jokethrowaway]

I take the alternate view. Tangible stuff is great and I like having something to toss on the kitchen table for the family to work through.

And a little rubbish is not a problem. Paper does sequester CO2 afterall.

[getcrunk]

Yea the site is slow. BUT WOW! Super cool concept. And looks very fun. I can't wait to try this out with friends at our next game night.

[hemmert → getcrunk]

Looking forward to hear your opinion! Have fun :)

I do get the feeling that my good old Webserver from 2009 might be retiring soon…

[ElCapitanMarkla]

Awesome :D we played through these a couple of years ago and I’ve been checking in every so often for an update.

[hemmert → ElCapitanMarkla]

I have missions 6-9 on my desk, the audio is recorded, and finally, our daughter gives us some time to launch the update in the next weeks ;)

[ElCapitanMarkla → hemmert]

Oh great to hear, shout out if you want us to test anything

[kdamken]

This is cool. Just a tip, your mobile site’s overflow is messed up, so you can scroll way off site to the right.

[hemmert → kdamken]

Ahhh, stupid me. I made a last minute change with the newsletter field, and that had a fixed width. Should be better now. :-)

[siva7]

I really like the landing page!

[hemmert → siva7]

Thank you!

I built it with Kirby:

https://getkirby.com/

– super easy, really great to customize!

(And multi-language!)

[sabhiram]

Hug of death!

[hemmert → sabhiram]

No way, that server has been stable since I rented it 10 years ago. ;)

[DavideP86]

Love it!