Mysterious Musings from The Voynich Times...

The Viridian Room is an online escape room game that is the direct follow-up to Takagi's original  Crimson Room, which is often considered the first Escape Room video game (although M.O.T.A.S. really deserves that recognition ). Viridian Room was released around May of 2004, just several months after the Crimson room. In this sequel, you have escaped the Crimson Room with just a CD case left and you enter an even stranger new room in total darkness. From there you must not just physically escape the room, but help a spirit move on and escape, too. The graphics and gameplay are a small step forward and it has some neat gameplay for the time-period. My biggest problem with this game, though, is it suffers from having a few too many puzzles that are not sign-posted or required you to go revisit and re-click or multi-click on previously clicked things for no real logical reason. The level of difficulty was higher than the first game and I did enjoy it, but needed the walkthrough

Mystery Of Space and Time (MOTAS)   You wake up with no memory in, what could be your bedroom... You have agreed to have your memory wiped by the Observers of space and time.  Only by doing this can you understand the deeper structure of the universe...for you are a human who can see another parallel reality.  Unfortunately you don't remember the agreement since your memory was wiped. It seems to learn more, you must first escape the room you are in...  MOTAS is one of the earliest puzzle-adventure/escape room types of video games, and would go on to influence future games such as Crimson Room (often considered the original escape room game) that would, in turn, influence the entire escape room industry!  Created by Jan Albartus using Macromedia Flash, it started as a single room in November of 2001 and has since expanded to 20 levels! MOTAS focuses mostly on the puzzles versus the story.  It is about completing (escaping) from each level to get to the next level.  MOTAS builds upo

Crimson Room "I drank too much last night.  I thought what time it was now. I felt thirst of the throat. The bed was different from usual. Is this a hotel? No, it does not seem like a hotel. I am shut up. I have to escape."  -- opening of the Crimson Room The Crimson Room is one of the first graphical video game escape rooms and considered to be one of the most influential for the genre.  It was released 04 Mar 2004 (1) and built on Adobe Flash.  The game was developed by Toshimitsu Takagi and was inspired by the graphical game MOTAS and the games Chasm and DROOM. (2)   The music and sound effects were by Oto-Jiten (Datacraft Co., LTD.) (2)  It was also preceded in 1988 by the text adventure escape room game Behind Closed Doors .   The story is a simple escape story...I woke up in a crimson room, apparently after drinking too much and having lost some memory (possibly due to the drinking?).  The room is locked and I need to get out. The room was obviously built to be escaped