Der Fall – Wettlauf gegen die Zeit

Der Fall – Wettlauf gegen die Zeit by MixUp is an innovative and technically groundbreaking realisation of an online escape room. Following the onset of the pandemic, many escape room providers began offering online versions of their adventures. These online adventures took the form of text documents containing the typical puzzles and clues that players could work through. Der Fall – Wettlauf gegen die Zeit takes this a step further. The ‘escape room’ is rendered in a virtual 3D world within the browser. In Der Fall – Wettlauf gegen die Zeit , players find themselves in a police station. Within this ‘game world’, all participants can interact with the environment simultaneously and independently. Many clever and well-designed technical features enhance the experience, such as a shared ‘whiteboard’ with numerous functions, webcam streaming as an avatar, voice and text chat; the game does not end even if participants are eliminated, and they can rejoin without any issues; plus, little touches such as skins for the characters add charm to the game’s presentation. MixUp’s Der Fall – Wettlauf gegen die Zeit is groundbreaking for the genre and will pave the way for many more online escape rooms of this kind, as an interactive world in which all participants can act and solve puzzles independently of one another comes much closer to reality.

The DCP Jury 2022