Railway Riddles: VR Escape Room

By Miles Fryett and Melody Robateau

About

You wake up on a train with no idea where you are, but your goal is to disable
the bomb that you discover is on board with you, and time is ticking.
Will you be able to disable it in time?

How to play?

Controls

  • Use the right thumbstick to teleport
  • Use the left thumbstick to snap rotate
  • Use your hands to grab and interact with puzzles
  • Use buttons and triggers to reset view, reset game and exit game

Tips

  • First find the keycard to get into the conductors cabin and insert it into the key card slot
  • Second find the fuse box and solve the color combination riddle to power on the Keypad beside it
  • Third find the keycode and input the code to the keypad to open door to dining cart, the last cart
  • Lastly Find the schematic and solve its riddle to get the correct wire to defuse the bomb and win the game!

Hints

  • The keycard can spawn in any one of 20 locations in the first car, it will be on a seat or table
  • The fuse box colors are all a product of Red, Green and Blue
  • The Keycode is under a book in the first cabin
  • The Schematics are in the dining cabin

Development

Railway riddles was made using Unreal Engine 5.10, Blender and Gimp. Unreal engine was chosen for development due to its built in VR capabilities as well as its user friendly UI which made design, coding and sequencing the game easy and iterative. We chose to use blueprints in unreal instead of C++ for its ability to be easily added upon and changed.

Gallery

A Few Photos of the Development and Gameplay of Railway Riddles

Version 1.02 Patchnotes

  • Various Minor Bug Fixes
  • Added Random Spawn Locations of Keycard
  • Added Random Keycode combinations 
  • Added ability for bomb defusal to be any of the 3 wires 
  • Fixed Audio Issues
  • Added New win and Lose Screens
  • Added explosion VFX
  • Changed timer to 7 mins to allow for more time