Welcome to the Escape web page! Here you will find game news and information, levels, and technical support! You will also be able to download the newest publicly available version!

Escape is a wonderfully complex and fantastically addictive puzzle game. The graphics are colorful and well-drawn, the levels range in difficulty from easy to insidious, and the game rules are easy to learn. The game can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Escape also includes the level editor, Escaped, so you can create your own levels for your friends or the Escape User Level Archive, and XENCODE/XDECODE for sending levels that you make to your friends or me through internet e-mail. (All of which is very easy and intuitive, I promise.)

Very little to no reading is required in Escape, and the tutorial teaches non-verbally (by example). You should be able to play Escape just fine even if you speak little or no English.

OK! Enough with the sales pitch. Escape is fun. You want it. It's not too big and it will run on nearly any computer.

If you have any levels which you have made, feel free to send them my way! The Escape package includes the proprietary XENCODE and XDECODE programs, which will encode levels into mailable text format. You can also use UUENCODE, or attach the levels to an e-mail in AOL or MIME format.

Please note that I cannot accept a level which I cannot beat. This means that you should do one of the following:

1. Send me a solution in the e-mail message. This can be like "1U3R4D2U" (1 up, 3 right, 4 down, 2 up) etc. This will do fine.
2. Send me a solution macro recorded in the game. This is the best way except that the macro recording is not "supported". (It's there, just be careful!) The macros can be mailed in any of the normal manners. (see above)
3. Pray that I can beat it on my own. I am pretty good at solving these things, but I tend to stop playing them if they seem impossible (and the better levels always do), so it's a good idea to have something to show me that it is in fact solvable. If you want me to try to beat it on my own, you can send me a solution macro, with which I can test to see if the level is possible without watching. Then I'll try. =)

Also, do not forget to include your name and e-mail address! If you don't want this information accompanying the level, just let me know.

Levels which I receive, if they are decent, will most likely be put in the Escape User Level Archive, free for downloading.

Let me know if you have any trouble with the game! If you have any problems at all please mail me.

Escape is now Free! Share and Enjoy, but if you've got any money and really like the game, I could use some cash now that I'm in college and my parents aren't paying for everything any more. Consider it. =)

Be on the lookout for a new Windows version of the game coming pretty soon with hi-res graphics and some other surprises...

I'm working on a new game now, an RPG. For more information: Ludus

[Tom][Mooseware]