How to create a puzzle in your online escape game project?
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Add puzzles to your escape game creation project to make your adventure even more thrilling.
Structure of an escape game on Rakura
On Rakura, an escape game is defined as follows: Game → Room → Furniture (puzzle). First, players are locked in a virtual game. During their adventure, they can discover different rooms and solve various puzzles symbolized by furniture.
What is furniture?
Furniture is one of the ways to challenge your players. You can add them to your rooms and assign actions to them (events). They can either be directly accessible or locked by a puzzle.
How to add furniture to a room?
Furniture is placed inside a room. Simply click the Add furniture button and give it a name. Once this step is completed, you can manage the events linked to it. To access your furniture settings, click the Edit button associated with the furniture in the Escape Creator.
Locking furniture
To lock the furniture with a puzzle, just add a Lock to it. A lock can be of several types:
- Text – Players must enter a word or phrase you define to unlock the furniture. Uppercase/lowercase letters and spaces are ignored.
- Object – Players must select an object from their inventory. Be sure to give them the object in a previous puzzle to avoid them getting stuck.
- Number – A numerical code will be required from the players to continue the adventure.
- Direction – Players must use a directional lock to unlock the furniture.
Then just save the lock, and your furniture will be considered locked during the gameplay phase.
Note: Only one lock is allowed per piece of furniture.
Furniture events
Events are linked to the furniture and will be triggered when players open it. By clicking on Add event, you can combine multiple possibilities, such as:
- Add Inventory Object – Adds selected objects to the players’ inventory.
- Remove Inventory Object – Removes objects from the players’ inventory (e.g., the object used to open the furniture).
- Unlock Furniture – Unlocks various furniture items in your game.
- Unlock Room – Choose to unlock one or more rooms.
- Access Room – The furniture acts as a door to another room (navigation).
- Lock Furniture – Allows you to lock other pieces of furniture in your game.
- Lock Room – Choose to lock one or more rooms.
- Open Final Door – Unlocks access to the final door.
- Show Message – Displays a predefined message to players.
With all these options, Rakura lets you bring your story to life exactly as you imagined it.