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Leaving from platform 9 3/4....
Sep. 10th, 2006 10:22 pmYou may remember that a few weekends ago I playtested the Hogwarts puzzle-hunt. Well, now the actual event has taken place, which means that I can finally reveal all. I wrote this back then, just after we got home.
As I said before, the SNOUT Hogwarts game was certainly the finest puzzle-hunt I've ever played in, but also it was the finest one I've ever heard described. (This was, after all, my first full-length game.) There were, of course, glitches, but this was the playtesting weekend, and besides, with the exception of one puzzle which they hopefully just scrapped (by the time I actually post this I guess I'll know whether or not they did) and the first serious wand-glitch, nothing actually reached, or even approached, the "I'm not having fun" stage. But I'm getting ahead of myself with that mention of the wand, so let me start at the beginning.
( Continued behind cut: long but hopefully entertaining )
Starting from the Emeryville Amtrak station, photos are now up on Flickr!
As I said before, the SNOUT Hogwarts game was certainly the finest puzzle-hunt I've ever played in, but also it was the finest one I've ever heard described. (This was, after all, my first full-length game.) There were, of course, glitches, but this was the playtesting weekend, and besides, with the exception of one puzzle which they hopefully just scrapped (by the time I actually post this I guess I'll know whether or not they did) and the first serious wand-glitch, nothing actually reached, or even approached, the "I'm not having fun" stage. But I'm getting ahead of myself with that mention of the wand, so let me start at the beginning.
( Continued behind cut: long but hopefully entertaining )
Starting from the Emeryville Amtrak station, photos are now up on Flickr!
