Escape Simulator Livestream - Special announcement and more!
This livestream on Steam is to celebrate our participation in the SimFest event on Steam and also to talk about the HyperX & OMEN campaign we announced today.
Highlight the HyperX campaign. How the competition works, what people you can win!
Show the HyperX assets in-game
Explain the judging criteria
Q&A
If there's time left, play some of our favorite community rooms!
See you tonight!
Pine team <3
Build-A-Room #2 Competition: HyperX & OMEN Gaming Showdown
CALLING ALL ROOM BUILDERS! Starting today, Escape Simulator will be collaborating with HyperX and OMEN for a VERY special room building challenge! The winners of this challenge will be rewarded with a variety of products provided by both brands. See the full list of prizes below!
To get a chance of winning these awesome prizes you will need to build the ultimate gaming escape room with Escape Simulator’s in-game room editor! In order to build this ’Ultimate Game Room’, you will need to make use of a full set of assets that represent real-life HyperX and OMEN products. You can find these assets in the Room Editor. Submissions will be considered if they have been sent in before April 11, 2022 (6PM CEST / 9AM PT / 12PM ET)
We aim to announce the winners on Monday, April 25! As we want to play every room thoroughly, depending on the amount of submissions the picking of winners might take longer than expected. We will communicate this in a timely manner if this happens!
🏆 Prizes
First Place: OMEN 16 laptop + HyperX peripheral range including Cloud Alpha Wireless headset, QuadCast S microphone, Alloy Origins 60 keyboard, Pulsefire Haste Wireless Black mouse, Pulsefire Mat RGB mousepad
Second Place: Cloud Alpha Wireless headset
Third Place: QuadCast S microphone
Fourth Place: Alloy Origins 60 keyboard
Fifth Place: Pulsefire Haste Wireless White
Sixth Place: Pulsefire Haste Wireless Black
Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Place: Pulsefire Mat RGB
Community Choice: Cloud Alpha Wireless headset + Pulsefire Haste Wireless Black mouse + Pulsefire Mat RGB mousepad
📑 Rules
Create a game room using all provided HyperX and OMEN assets.
To submit a room for the competition, you have to post a link to your room in the "#hyperx-omen-challenge" channel in the Pine Studio Discord.
You can only submit one room. Multiple submissions will not be counted.
You are allowed to bug fix your room after submission, but not resubmit an entirely different room.
Copies of other players' rooms are not eligible.
Keep it fun/clean! No profanity, racism, hate speech, sexually suggestive, etc content. Rooms that might be considered offensive in any way or form will be disqualified.
Submitting a room for the competition is very easy. Just post a link to your room in the "#hyperx-omen-challenge" channel in the Pine Studio Discord!
🎥 Join our livestream today!
Today (March 29) we will have a special livestream with live Q&A so you can ask anything and everything about this competition or other Escape Simulator related questions! The stream starts at 8pm CEST/11am PDT/1pm CDT. Hope to see you there!
Happy building!
We hope you are as excited about this competition as we are and we can’t wait to see all of your amazing creations!
------------------------ Also, a new small update is out now!
Changelog:
New Gaming assets for room editor featuring HyperX and Omen products
Networking has more fail checks, which can result in error screens instead of game crashes
Co-op fix where you could stay zoomed in but the item disappears
Support for multiple controllers connecting and disconnecting
"Metaverse" co-op fixes
"Space Walk" translation fixes
Room editor duplicate room bug fix when changing languages
Room editor room renaming bug fix
Pine team <3
Build-a-Room #2: Gaming Challenge
New stuff in the game • New Gaming assets
Fixes • Networking has more fail checks, you could get error screens instead of game crashes • Coop fix where you could stay in zoom but the item disappears • Support for multiple controllers connecting and disconnecting • "Metaverse" coop fixes • "Space Walk" translation fixes • Room editor duplicate room bug fix when changing languages • Room editor bug fix where you couldn't rename room
Language pack update is out now!
Merhaba! / ¡Hola! / Olá!
The time has come for another big Escape Simulator update! Today we will be adding no less than five language options to the game. Once this update goes live, you will be able to play the entire game in Türk (Turkish), Español (Spanish), Español (Spanish Latin America), Português (Portuguese) and Português (Portuguese Brasil)! We know that a lot of you have been waiting very patiently for this specific update, so we are very glad to reveal that the wait is finally over!
New publishing options 📝
Additionally, we have completely reworked the 'Publish custom room screen'. This update includes several new options you can adjust when publishing your custom room to Steam Workshop. First off, you can now change the visibility settings of your room before publishing. This also allows you to publish your room directly from the Room Editor. Furthermore, you will be able to change the description of your room and add new Patch Notes. Lastly, this update also enables the option to add Steam Workshop tags to your room, which should make it much easier for other players to find exactly what they are looking for. 👀
Additional updates and tweaks (v1.0.20730r)
Finally, this latest update also features the following updates and tweaks:
New trigger option: Trigger when all players enter the trigger
New lock option: Added parity XOR and exclusive XOR
New hair options for Cori's dad 🙂
New languages
Game optimizations, should run more smoothly and take less memory
Loop animations soft-lock in custom rooms fixed
UX tweaks for controller and general feel of the game so it is more uniform
Once again, we would like to thank all of you for your ongoing support and enthusiasm for Escape Simulator! If you haven't already, join our Discord to find people to play co-op with, connect with other room builders and share your creations!
♥ Pine team
Our top community room picks for February
Almost 4000 workshop entries!
First off, all of us at Pine Studio are incredibly grateful for your continuous support. We've already seen many incredible rooms created by the community and we are very curious to see what other rooms you will all come up with. Additionally, we recently released the latest update, which adds a whole bunch of new assets and functions for you to play around with. Now without further ado, let's have a look at some of the community rooms that really stood out to us this month.
Fortune awaits you!
In Money Murder Mock-up, you play as the assistant to a famous archaeology professor who has faked his own death. If you manage to solve this room, you can lay claim to his wealth!
Communication is key!
You need to talk again is a co-op room that was specifically designed for two players. Like the title implies, you will need to use your communication skills for this one!
Double, double, toil and trouble! ⚗️
Are you looking for a little bit of magic in your life? Why not attend a real Potions Class? This room is sure to be an enchanting experience!
All the colors of the rainbow!
Color Wheel is a highly original and imaginative room that's also incredibly fun to play in co-op. We definitely recommend you to check this one out!
Join our Discord community!
Did you know that we have a Discord? Whether you’re looking for people to play co-op with or have questions about the room editor, it’s the place to be! Join the Discord here. It’s also a great place to share your rooms, and who knows - yours might be the next daily pick or perhaps you’ll get featured in an announcement!
Did we miss anything?
Of course, there are many more amazing community rooms to explore. Please tell us about your personal favorites in the comment section below!
♥ Pine team
Patch v1.0.20403r
Fixed freeze when some items enter trashcans
Patch v1.0.20402r
Fixed missing assets in the existing community rooms (egyptian walls, boots)
Halloween props can now be painted
Trashcan issues fixed
Removed tokens from props
Fixed item rotations and names
Big Room Editor update is out now!
The Alchemist has arrived! 🧙
Earlier this month, we asked our community to vote between four potential asset packages for the room editor. Out of these packages, The Alchemist package got the most votes by far. So now it's time for all of you to work your magic!
Additional Room Editor updates
New assets:
• Skyboxes • New effects
New logic items:
• Open link: Players can open links to Steam, Steam Community, or Wikipedia URLs. • And/Or/XOR /Not gates on the Lock object • Activator that can enable or disable objects
Features:
• Button, Animation, Lock, Trigger, and Slot have new Output Value field that can be changed • Code optimizations
But wait, there's more!
Finally, the latest update also includes:
• Steam Deck support • Internal rework of networking - it should work much better for the community rooms now! • Linux and Mac graphical fixes • Daily Picks rework • Added additional custom level packs • 388 commits of tweaks and fixes
Our top January community room picks!
First, thanks to all of you!
We continue to be amazed by the variety and quality of custom rooms you’ve all been making! There are some super inventive creations out there… but we also love seeing how many people have been experimenting with the room editor. Whether you release anything or not we hope you’re having fun with it!
Some of you might have noticed some repetition in the community room daily picks. At the moment we have to manually add maps to the daily picks list via updates, and then one map appears each day. So after the next update there’ll be new rooms appearing again! Until then, you should check out these…
Sudoku Dungeon You are trapped in a Sudoku Dungeon oh no! Solve the puzzle to escape! There’s a pinned discussion including a guide with hints and a walkthrough.
Dracula 's Castle A Count Dracula themed room with lots of painting/symbol-based clues and no cryptic words. There are hints in the workshop description.
Join our Discord community
Did you know we have a Discord? Whether you’re looking for people to play co-op with or have questions about the room editor, it’s the place to be! Join the Discord here. It’s also a great place to share your rooms, and who knows - yours might be the next daily pick or perhaps you’ll get featured in an announcement!
Get Escape Simulator for 20% off for a few more days
Escape Simulator will be on sale for a few more days following the Big Adventure Event, and you still have until February 3 to grab the game at a 20% discount.
We’ll close out with this amusing screenshot by ‘Nezzo’ on Steam - we also enjoy a lot of the screenshots that get posted on Steam! I expect a lot of us can relate.
How the resourceful solve escape rooms: the "pile of evidence"
♥ Pine team
We're in The Big Adventure Event!
We're happy to announce that we're taking part in the Big Adventure Event. It's a digital celebration and showcase of independently developed adventure games!
