[mozz100]

https://app.dev-esc.com/new_game/ - an online escape room for developer teams. I aimed to make a team-building experience that was a bit different. unashamedly geeky: you’ll need puzzling and some coding to solve the challenges.

Fully remote for teams of 1-8ish; free to explore. Requires a computer, although you can explore on mobile/tablet.

Originally it was free to play - I got a fair few plays off my HN post, now I have a trickle of paying customers.

Use code hackernews22 for a 40% discount

Original submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28579191

[cobertos]

Oh I played this! I bought it to play with a friend over Discord and we had a real fun time, it was sort of the perfect niche (for us)

Personally I wish there were more of these. Having the one was nice but it's hard to play with another person when you already know the solution. And it's just fun to play more puzzles with the same friend.

Thanks for making it :3!

[mozz100]

Thank you for this, you made my day.

I have recently made a new room for /dev/esc - my idea was that in the run-up to Christmas, plenty of dev teams would be looking for activities to do together. Full disclosure: it didn't work - I didn't get a bump of new customers.

If you can look past the festive theming, IMHO there are some good, totally original new puzzles in "Santa's Tech Disaster". (choose from drop-down when setting up a new game)

[cobertos]

Tbh, Christmas was a heads down, stressful time for me. I'm wondering if the opposite might actually be true of dev teams around Christmas?

But thanks! I'll have to get my friend to play again. Looking forward to it

[csarva]

Looks like there’s a new puzzle now, give it another look!