# Easily create room escape games for free?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 15, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easily-create-room-escape-games-for-free/521311 "2009-12-15T03:36:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easily-create-room-escape-games-for-free/521311/1 "2009-12-15T03:36:48Z")

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Lately, I’ve been playing some neat point-and-click “room escape” type games, and I think they’re a fun waste of time.  
I was wondering; for someone who doesn’t want to spend $$$ to buy Flash CS4, and who doesn’t have much of any programming knowledge at all, is there a way to create games like these that will play online? I wouldn’t be making anything complicated to start…

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**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easily-create-room-escape-games-for-free/521311/2 "2009-12-15T05:00:32Z")

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I don’t have anything constructive to add, but I’m surprised something like this doesn’t already exist. It seems like an easy thing to put in a Photoshopped picture, trigger boxes, and Photoshopped results. Hell, Powerpoint can almost do that. I’d be interested to see if such a thing exists.

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**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easily-create-room-escape-games-for-free/521311/3 "2009-12-15T17:02:21Z")

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[GameMaker](http://www.yoyogames.com/make) can make room escape games quickly. You can quickly set up scripts to add stuff to an inventory and to move around.

There is a software specially for this genre of game: [WinterMute](http://dead-code.org/home/), which comes with a sophisticated set of tools to define clickable area and is more GUI-oriented than Game Maker, which requires you to learn some basic drag-and-drop programming. It does however look really daunting to learn and use.

And there is [Adventure Maker](http://www.adventuremaker.com/), which I think is fits the OP’s requirements best, though it may be lacking in features. It is simpler than the above two approach though.

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**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easily-create-room-escape-games-for-free/521311/4 "2009-12-15T19:38:02Z")

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> [@CrazyChop](#):
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> And there is [Adventure Maker](http://www.adventuremaker.com/), which I think is fits the OP’s requirements best, though it may be lacking in features. It is simpler than the above two approach though.

I think we have ourselves a winner!!

I just quickly looked at the site, and watched the guided tour video, and it looks to do exactly what I was looking for!

Now, to download it, and start drawing some game frames…

Thanks very much, CrazyChop! 🙂  
S^G