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Dev Log #1: Edgewood Mannor



Dr. Edgewood is a renowned psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, and surgeon who was always fascinated with the occult. You were invited to attend a special dinner with him at his mansion. But instead of eating great food, you'll be solving a victorian mystery.



Edgewood Mannor is the first room pack in Escape Simulator. Rooms in a pack are set in theme and follow the same underlying storyline. In this pack, you'll go through 5 rooms in a Victorian mansion: The Clinic, The Library, The Attic, Seance Room, and The Laboratory.

When we first started working on the game in 2019, we started making a detective noir room.

2019 - Prototype

With the prototype, we tested if we liked interactions and how the co-op would work. We thought it was fun and that we had to make this game :)

Since the gameplay looked good, we decided that it was time to work on the graphics too. While doing that, the noir theme morphed into a victorian theme. Our main goal was to make a beautiful escape room game, and this is what we ended up in 2020:

2020 - Vertical Slice

Even though it's much closer to how the game looks now, we still weren't happy with it. The style wasn't consistent, single objects looked good, but when put together, they were missing something. After endless iterations, this has finally led us to the final look for the first room:

2021 - Current Version

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To give a quick update about the development - it's going very well! The target release in 2021 is still on. We also hope to make more "making of" posts like this.

You can follow the development closely on our Discord.

To get notified when the game will be out, you can wishlist the game here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1435790/Escape_Simulator/

Vote for Escape Simulator at Indie Celebration (Play the updated demo!)

Escape Simulator is a part of the Indie Celebration hosted by Digital Dragons. To celebrate, we updated the demo!

There is a Community Vote, and if you liked the game, we invite you to vote for us: VOTE HERE! Thanks! :)



Demo updates:

The cool new thing is that we have our original characters (farewell John and Jane Wick). And to top it off, you can customize them!



There have been many fixes since the last demo, and we've spent a lot of time making the multiplayer experience stable.

Second look and developer commentary

[h2]About Game[/h2]
Pine Studio is exhibiting our newest game Escape Simulator. It's a escape room game that takes a fresh spin on the genre with focus on simulation. Everything can be picked up, examined and thrown; everything else that's not nailed down can be moved. The game features a co-op mode as well, so you can play with a friend! The demo features 3 playable rooms, out of 15 that are shipping later this year.

[h2]About Stream[/h2]
We're going to be showing the gameplay from the demo, some rooms not in the demo, together with development materials - as well as some early prototypes. Come and see how the game changed through this two years of development.

First look and developer commentary

Hey everyone!

[h2]About Game[/h2]

Pine Studio is exhibiting our newest game Escape Simulator. It's a escape room game that takes a fresh spin on the genre with focus on simulation. Everything can be picked up, examined and thrown; everything else that's not nailed down can be moved. The game features a co-op mode as well, so you can play with a friend! The demo features 3 playable rooms, out of 15 that are shipping later this year.

[h2]About Stream[/h2]
We're going to be showing the gameplay from the demo, some rooms not in the demo, together with development materials - as well as some early prototypes. Come and see how the game changed through this two years of development.

Next-gen escape room experience coming to Linux with Escape Simulator

Escape Simulator from Pine Studio (SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell, Faraway: Director's Cut) is a next-generation escape room puzzler with both solo and co-op modes.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/02/next-gen-escape-room-experience-coming-to-linux-with-escape-simulator