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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
Doesn't come up for me, timed out
c17r
well, it's loading now but the document is taking around 10s to load.
hemmert
Let's hope that server will not collapse under today's attention overload ;)
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
Looking forward to hear your opinion! Have fun :)

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

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
And here my chess expertise shows its boundaries ;) I‘ll see if I can fix those bishops and labels :)
hemmert
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
> It super, super bugs me that black has two light square bishops in the chess puzzle

Clearly one of them is a promoted pawn.

sabhiram
Hug of death!
hemmert
No way, that server has been stable since I rented it 10 years ago. ;)
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
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.)

siva7
I really like the landing page!
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
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.

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
Ahhh, stupid me. I made a last minute change with the newsletter field, and that had a fixed width. Should be better now. :-)
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
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
Oh great to hear, shout out if you want us to test anything