How to Create an 'Escape the Room' Game in PowerPoint

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Open up Power point.

   How about an escape the basement? You can find a perfect, dirty basement by:
   Clip art/click the drop down button for the type of clip art/only select photographs/type in, basement, or room.
   
   Then look around until you find an orangey like colored basement.
   
   Or just get it from your file. , Make sure to use the same basement picture for every slide you make, or you can take various pictures around a basement from where you live, but not the same. ,), then hyperlink/place in this document/click the slide where you want it to go to. ,, For example, make a key, to open that door.
   
   Or better, a puzzle! Or maybe a riddle, so players go deeper into the game. , If you wanted to make a puzzle or a riddle, get help from your parents or something or from the internet.
   
   If the key and door, let me tell you how. , Draw up a rectangle that looks like a door.
   
   Then shapes/oval.
   
   Draw up an oval on the door.
   
   Then, select the door and then the doorknob, then press control+G.
   
   This will group the whole thing, selected. ,,,, Then animation/custom animation/add effect/appear. ,,, Then add another effect for the doorknob/disappear. , Timing, triggers/start effect on/click the group key.
   
   Now when you play, hover your mouse pointer to the doorknob.
   
   The cursor won't change to a hand! Why? Then click the key.
   
   Then the doorknob that covered the group, will appear! , To make one, Make a rectangle.
   
   Then copy and paste the group key, fitting it just right in the rectangle.
   
   Then create another rectangle, but covering the key.
   
   Then, right click/format picture/fill/solid fill/transparent it until the key looks clear enough to see.
   
   Then click the line color tab/solid line/transparent it, 100%. , Add effect/appear/timing/triggers/on click of/the group key on the ground.
   
   Then do the same, but this time, disappear. , Then do the same, disappearing. ,!
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   Step 2: Make a quick menu

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   Step 3: just by adding 2 rounded rectangles

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   Step 4: typing in

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   Step 5: 'Play'.

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   Step 6: think about where you might start.

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   Step 7: add arrows which indicate where the user wants to go.

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   Step 8: for the game

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   Step 9: click one of the arrows (make sure you have more than 5 slides for this game!

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    Step 10: For the other slide that you made the arrow hyperlink to

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    Step 11: make another arrow

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    Step 12: that faces the opposite way of the other in the previous slide

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    Step 13: then hyperlink it to the previous one.

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    Step 14: To make the escape

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    Step 15: don't make it too obvious for the players to see the escape door.

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    Step 16: Try adding a puzzle or riddle.

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    Step 17: Shapes/rectangle.

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    Step 18: Create another doorknob

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    Step 19: which covers the group doorknob.

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    Step 20: Then... Make a key.

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    Step 21: Group the key after you've made it

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    Step 22: then put it somewhere in the slide.

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    Step 23: select the doorknob that covers the group doorknob.

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    Step 24: Then click the drop down button.

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    Step 25: Click the 'timing' tab.

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    Step 26: Click triggers/start effect on click of/choose the group of the key.

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    Step 27: Click the drop down button.

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    Step 28: Now that's done

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    Step 29: let's make a one-item inventory box.

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    Step 30: select the group key in the inventory box.

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    Step 31: Select the transparent rectangle

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    Step 32: add effect/appear/drop down list/timing/on click of/the key in the inventory box.

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    Step 33: make more slides

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    Step 34: then once you've finished

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    Step 35: let someone else finish it!!

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