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+# Project: Virtual Escape Room
+
+**Tier:** 3-Advanced
+
+**Description:** Create a virtual escape room game where players can team up online to solve puzzles, riddles, and challenges to "escape" from a virtual room. This project combines elements of gaming, storytelling, and interactive problem-solving.
+
+## User Stories:
+1. Users can either create a new virtual escape room or hop into one.
+2. Each escape session will have a unique theme and story.
+3. Voice and chat allow users to connect with each other in real-time.
+4. To progress, players have to solve riddles, challenges, and puzzles that are sprinkled through the room.
+5. Add a timer to put some pressure on the players.
+6. Players will have no choice but to communicate with each other and work together to advance through the room.
+7. Whenever a player gets stuck, give them clues or hints to push them towards the solution.
+8. Depending on whether they escaped within the time limit or not, display a “win” or “lose” message when the game ends.
+
+## Bonus Features:
+1. Implementing multiplayer functionality could let more than a couple of players take part, which sounds fun. 
+2. Having different themes and difficulty levels for the escape rooms would keep things interesting.  
+3. Multimedia stuff like sounds or interactive stuff would be cool too.  Giving users the ability to make their own custom escape rooms could be neat.  
+4. Maybe have a scoring system or leaderboards to see who's doing the best.  
+5. Adding some kind of story that unfolds as you go through the room could make it more immersive.
+
+## Useful Links and Resources
+
+### Game Development Platforms and Frameworks:
+- [Unity](https://unity.com/): A popular game development platform with a wide range of resources and tutorials.
+- [Phaser](https://phaser.io/): An open-source framework for building HTML5 games.
+- [Three.js](https://threejs.org/): A JavaScript library for creating 3D graphics and games in the browser.
+
+### Real-Time Communication:
+- [Socket.io](https://socket.io/): A library for adding real-time, bidirectional communication to web applications.
+- [WebRTC](https://webrtc.org/): A technology for real-time communication directly between browsers.
+
+### Puzzle Creation and Game Design:
+- [PuzzleScript](https://www.puzzlescript.net/): A game engine for creating puzzle games.
+- [Twine](https://twinery.org/): An open-source tool for creating interactive, nonlinear narratives.
+- [Adventure Game Studio](https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/): A development tool for creating point-and-click adventure games.
+
+### Storytelling and Game Narrative:
+- [The Game Narrative Toolbox](https://www.gamenarrative.com/): Resources and articles on game storytelling.
+- [Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames](https://www.amazon.com/Game-Writing-Narrative-Skills-Videogames/dp/158065066X): A book on game writing by Chris Bateman.
+
+### Multiplayer Gaming:
+- [Mirror](https://mirror-networking.com/): A high-level networking library for Unity, useful for multiplayer games.
+- [Photon](https://www.photonengine.com/): A cloud-based multiplayer game backend service.
+
+### Game Audio and Sound Effects:
+- [Freesound](https://freesound.org/): A repository of user-contributed audio samples and sound effects.
+- [Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org/): An open-source audio editing tool.
+
+### Design and Graphics:
+- [Adobe Creative Cloud](https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html): For graphic design and asset creation.
+- [Blender](https://www.blender.org/): A free, open-source 3D content creation suite.
+
+### Project Management and Collaboration:
+- [Trello](https://trello.com/): A popular project management tool.
+- [GitHub](https://github.com/): For version control and collaborative coding.
+
+### Example Projects:
+- "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" (a cooperative bomb-defusing game).
+- Virtual escape room experiences offered by various companies and websites.
+- "The Room" series of mobile puzzle games.
+
+This project combines game development, real-time communication, and storytelling to create an immersive and interactive virtual escape room experience. It can be a fun and challenging project to work on, especially if you enjoy game design and puzzle-solving.