We had a webinar on how to create a digital escape room game. We explained in detail how to build a digital escape room game using the ThingLink platform. ThingLink provides an interactive learning environment, and recently added new features such as AI-assisted generation, augmented reality, and mixed reality headsets. The webinar showed how to use these features to create an immersive escape room game. Creating an escape room game requires thorough planning. It is important to create a planning document that includes the game's theme, learning objectives, target group, format, time limit, structure type, etc. You can use ThingLink's 'Guided Mode' and 'Locked Mode' to guide the learning, and use conditional transition tags to set up the next step only when the correct answer to a specific question is entered. You can also use a variety of third-party tools to create puzzles and quizzes and embed them in ThingLink to enrich the learning experience. Use Google Forms to assess learning outcomes and encourage students to work together to solve problems. Digital escape games are effective in increasing students’ learning motivation and improving their problem-solving and collaboration skills. Create your own digital escape game using ThingLink and a variety of tools. Guide to Creating a Digital Escape Room Game 1. Introducing ThingLink ThingLink is a tool for creating interactive learning environments, offering a variety of learning experiences including digital escape games. Recently, ThingLink has added new features such as AI-assisted generation, augmented reality, and mixed reality headsets, allowing users to create more immersive content. 2. Preparation for creating an escape room game Create a planning document: Create a planning document that includes the theme, learning objectives, target group, format, time limit, purpose, and type of structure for your escape room game. This will help you organize all the information you need during the game creation process. 3. Game Creation Using ThingLink Image Generation: Generate 360-degree images and regular images using ThingLink's AI capabilities. The generated images are used as backgrounds for the game. Add tags: You can use ThingLink's 'Guide Mode' and 'Lock Mode' to guide your learning by following specific tags. You can also use conditional transition tags to require the correct answer to a specific question before you can proceed to the next step. 4. Use third-party tools Puzzle and Quiz Generator: Create puzzles and quizzes to insert into your games using a variety of puzzle generators, newspaper article generators, fake text message generators, and more. These tools will enrich your learning experience. Google Forms: Use Google Forms to assess learning outcomes from games. You can have students enter information they collect from the game into a form and then give them a task to write a speech to get the final key. 5. Game Design Tips Immersive Scenarios: Design each scene of the game to be immersive. Use situational descriptions and sensory descriptions to help learners immerse themselves in the game. Set clear goals: Set tasks that align with learning objectives so students have a clear goal as they progress through the game. Collaboration and Problem Solving: Encourage students to work together to solve problems. This helps learners develop their collaboration and problem-solving skills.
