Looks good but stuck on the number dials one. I feel I'm missing a piece to the description of the dials or something.

Here's a hint:

Let's say that you turned the dials 10 notches, The five dial would land on 0, and the eight dial would land on 2
If you turned them 16 notches, the five dial would land on 1 and the eight dial would land on 0.
If you turned them 41 notches, both dials would land on 1.

Ok, got past that.... and in the riddle you spelt "reign" wrong. "Rein" is for horses which made me guess wrong for a while. You wanted "reign" as in "to rule". xP

Ah, thanks for catching that. Very sorry, it should be fixed now.
May I ask which ending you got?

partial sphinx ending.

Honestly at this point trying to see if there is a TG ending in there somewhere. x3

There isn't one. I didn't know if the giftee would like that sort of thing, so I didn't do it.

Actually got a bad end with the dial thing cause I wasn't looking at the tic boxes as each dial's numbers. Hence my confusion with the dial question. I am guessing one ending is unicorn? Was a little hard to tell.

Yay for modular arithmetic!

Exactly!

This doesn't make sense... or am I overthinking it?

Hmm, this one's a toughy

About three times of the day and of two sisters asks I. Answer me or be consumed. What am I?

anyone have an inkling?

I want to say hunger, but it didn't work. It needs three times of the day, (breakfast, lunch, dinner), and has two sisters in either thirst and the need to sleep, or water and shelter as things necessary to function as a living thing.

So, alright. I try a different one. The one about something that reigned and people think as a myth, but it's lineage still reigns. I try "the past", "history", "cats" (I've watched a bit too much of the mummy), nothing.

I don't like these riddles.

Here's a hint: Morning, noon, and evening

so n was the answer for that one, the one for the Rein is dinosaur

I tried dinosaur for that one, but it didn't work.

Did you capitalize it? if so, you didn't follow the direction in the box, if not then dinosaurs might work next time you get it

These riddles don't make a damn bit of sense.

Which riddle did you get?

I got all three mentioned here. I've poked through the game multiple times, but those fucking riddles make no sense at all, any of them.

then maybe you haven't poked thoroughly enough. they do, in fact, make sense, they're just pretty tricky and require some thinking outside the box. don't give up just yet!

I gave it my best shot, but I assume you're talking about a certain dragon that I don't know about.

What do you mean?
For the riddles? None of them have an answer like that

"I am the face of regalness. I was born of the distorted grapevine. Though I am the greatest customer. What am I?"
Something along those lines. I never figured out the answer, so the guy turned fully into a dragon with ear fins, horns, and magenta scales.

All the same, it's fun! I just got one of the variations correct, but it's a nice challenge either way.

Thank you!
As a hint to the other riddle, your TF doesn't have anything to do with the riddle. For the riddle you got stuck on, it's something associated with purity.

. . . oh . . .

First two puzzles are easy once you figure out what you're supposed to do, but I suck at riddles, unless it's just one I've heard before and thus already know the answer.

Well, if there's one your stuck on i would be happy to give a hint.

Literally ALL of them. Not been able to solve a single one.

I failed a couple of times at the game. That's where I got my 3 answers.

The first one has a static solution, so once I figured it out, it's the same every time. Second is just a matter of calculation, third is where I always get stuck; it's a different riddle every time and I can't solve any of them. Like I said, unless I've already heard the riddle before and already know the answer, it's never something I can reason out.

Not sure what determines what transformation you get if you fail; I thought it was what riddle you failed at, but I failed on purpose a couple times on different stages to experiment, and so far almost always get the unicorn ending, though got the sphinx once. I'm beginning to suspect it's just random and for some reason luck of the draw has just given me unicorn every time.

Like I said, I solved the final one with failure. That's all I'm saying.

Ok done, it was pretty easy except the riddles.
They were so difficult except when getting really one of the easiest on my third try xD

The end is kinda anticlimatic tho' :p

Well, the ending actually changes with the number of failed attempts on a given run.
If you check in the mirror you can actually 'see' the changes as the progress

Oh but.. I did a perfect run :C
You mean it's less rewarding to do it perfectly than badly? :D

Depends on what you mean by "rewarding" I guess lol. The object of the game is to avoid being transformed, but... I never play tf games to avoid getting transformed lol, what fun is that? I suspect I'm not the only one with that mindset who plays these things.

I mean, I found out the end was better when it was "lost" than when we "win".
By that I mean doing a perfect run doesn't sound like it was something. The text feels like "oh you did a perfect run, ok whatever" to me. While the description for game overs are way better xD

Nice little game to finish off the year. I only worked out two of the riddles, so I had to brute force my way through resetting so I could get all the escape endings. I trust there were only the three TFs? Else my luck would have been spectacularly poor.

Yes, only three different TFs

fun game got really lucky that my first riddle was apparently the only one i knew the answer to on my own lol then i repeatedly failed to get the tfy goodness how many different tfs are there i only seemed to be able to get either unicorn or sphinx

There is a third species you can get turned into ;)
Glad you had fun with this game

... I .. .have no idea why. I typed in the numpad and just .. 180'd to the exit. I might've just beaten their world record. hahaha. by accident.

Oh? What did you type in the numpad? (The one next to the plaque right?) You probably guessed the riddle's answer.

Yeah... it's ... big.

This was really fun! Any chance we'll be getting more games like this?

Almost certainly!

Awesome! I really liked the challenging puzzles, plus the unaware tfs were great. MC is a big thing for me, so I love it whenever it comes up!

Nice game, pity nothing like that ever happened during my escape room visits ^^

Chest and dials were pretty straightforward to solve, though I got stuck on some of the riddles (got them solved after some research)
I liked the gradual change of both one's physical features and one's mind, almost expecting that to somewhat coincide with the riddle's solution but there seem to be more different riddles than TFs.

Yah, I wish we had escape rooms like this!

The gradual change was pretty fun to do, both with the reactions and mirror scenes. I had originally planned to make the riddles match up with the TFs, but I didn't want that to lead to sequence breaking.

Neat game. Wasn't super hard but it was fun finding oneself turning into a dragon. Only sad it wasn't longer.

Glad you had fun with it! I suppose I will have to start working on a longer game.

I think I have a bug. No matter what, the third riddle is always the same. (The one with "the greatest customer" one always shows up. Different colored text though.)

That does sound like a pretty big bug. I don't see how that is happening though, as all the riddles use the same colour code. May I ask what browser you are running this with?

Firefox

Huh. I'm afraid that I'm not sure how to fix that

Im stuck on the chest X.X

Oh? Which other parts of the room have you looked at?

All of em. I just cant seem to get the right direction combo from the journal X.X I must be putting it in wrong :\

Pay special attention to the compass rose on the map

I cant because the map does not come up

If the map doesn't show up in the game you can look at it directly by looking at it in the images folder, with the html file and the guide to playing.
If you moved the html file away from the images folder than the images won't show up correctly.

Sorry, but I have honestly absolutely no clue how to work through the number dial puzzle. This may be because I suffer from dyscalculia, or maybe I'm just completely missing the logic here, but I can't for the life of me make sense of the dials. Some help would be greatly appreciated. :)

BBHaywood guessed it completely when they called it modular arithmatic.

I got out but was half turned into a dragon. got lucky the first time though, as i can't figure out any of the riddles since then lol

As in human with dragon parts, or anthro dragon?
Hope you had fun with this game.

Anthro from what I read. I messed up a few times on the rock puzzle and the map puzzle (idk how i messed up the map one, I think i just got confused and hit the wrong direction lol)
The game was fun for a while, hope you can make a sequel, and hope it is more open. I thought there would be more after opening the door, like it w3as just the start of a Cyoa

Well, the game was intended to end with leaving the room from the beginning. I wouldn't have had time to do that anyways I'm not really sure what there would really be to do after opening the door. With the amount of possible forms the number of ways it could breach would be a tremendous amount of work.

I see and understand. It was good in any regard.

Ooh, I like this, got some inspiration for puzzles to throw at my players next time I run D&D too :D

Nice! Glad I could be of help~

Finally got around to playing this, and I got (un)lucky with my first go...turned out the riddle I got just so happened to be related to a subject I had been thinking about extensively anyways...Got out without any TF...sadly. But I gave it another replay to ensure I got the chance to see what I missed out on... and found that the other riddles did not come nearly as easily to me, if you have the answer already on the mind, then all the ambiguous components and logical abstractions you would otherwise fall into are easily glazed over and the riddle seems trivial. Quite fun to play, all in all it reminds me of a particular escape room in a box dealing with werewolves.

I think I've seen that box for sale before, but didn't think I would get a chance to play it. How was it?

Well, actually...I haven't tried it directly, I merely read the description and let my minds eye immagine the fun, ".....a most cunning trap. You opened a letter and released a poisonous vapor that will transform you and your friends into werewolves IF you can’t open the antidote jar in time." Turns out that advertizing that failure will end in TF is a good marketing strategy, since after re reading that this morning and finding they were back in print I couldn't resist and just picked up a copy from their online store for about 30$...I'll have to get back to you on how it is after I find some folks to play it...might be awhile...but I have my doubts they will be able to match the dedication to transformation that the folks at BreakFree pour into their rooms...

If BreakFree went around advertizing like that, although sales would be up they might find folks waiting around in the rooms before completing them. To that end, it's probably best that it is a hidden treasure to be found in your local area....Then again, after folks start passing by and seeing the obligatory escape room completion pic's they might get all sorts of free viral advertising.

I'm stuck on the last riddle. It's "In all digits except none come I. A god's servant, a stirrer of chaos, and yet of the mundane. What am I?"

Anyone have a clue?

Besides this riddle, I really enjoy this game. Too short though. Hopefully there will be more like it.

It seems to be tied to mythology and religion as the "god's servant" suggests, "a stirrer of chaos" can be playful or a trickster. "Yet of the mundane" would imply that it is no god itself. The first part is rather confusing though, "digits" can be fingers/toes or numbers, but it doesn't make much sense either way, or does it?

There are ten digits, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9
So if we take out none we get 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9
What sort of mythological creature comes in variations of 1 to 9?

Only one that comes to mind is the hydra depending on which mythology you're talking about. I will try that next time I get that riddle.

You're thinking in the wrong culture

Wait a sec, can a kitsune have fewer than nine tails? I've never heard of a story where they do, besides Naruto, but it's the only other creature I can think of.

Solved it. Thank gods. This riddle was really well done. Took both me and my fiance days to get it.

They always have at least one and can have as many as nine (it was believed they gained a new one every 100 years).

OK I found out what I was doing wrong with the first puzzle but I have no idea what the answer might be for the rock with dials inside. I honestly don't understand what the note is saying...

Here's a hint:

Let's say that you turned the dials 10 notches, The five dial would land on 0, and the eight dial would land on 2
If you turned them 16 notches, the five dial would land on 1 and the eight dial would land on 0.
If you turned them 41 notches, both dials would land on 1.

Umm....I suck at math :\ I just want to see what the last of the 3 transformations is like... Ill leave it open so I have the answer if you will give me some help since I know its unique each round. I currently have 1699 but counting that would be a hell of a pain to do and I don't know of any method of using a calculator to figure it out either :\

So for this puzzle, the first dial will be at "0" if the number is a multiple of 5. 1699 is not a multiple of 5 but 1695 is. 1699 is 4 more than 1699 so the first dial is at "4". You can apply the same principle for the second dial but using multiples of 8 instead of 5. so 1699 is not a multiple of 8 but 1696 is. so the second dial would be at "3".

Sorry for giving out the solution,  8000power but many ppl seem to have issues with the math on this. I thought it might help them out a bit.

how do i solve the chest.

Have you found directions somewhere in the room?

the game is neat but 2 puzzles made me stop this math dial puzzle i got the first time and cant the second or third and this riddle I am the face of regalness. I was born by the grapevine's distortion. Yet I am the greatest customer.What am I?
yeah if tried women wine drink crown and a few others nothing works and i cant find the riddle online so i guess its over for me on this one

Here's a hint, Try thinking in the realm of mythological creatures~

tried agin even showed to 3 more people no one gets it XD so congrats its stumped some people even with your hint one said spinx for some reason one said king one said vulpina agathion no one knows but when i told them iw as doing this for a furry transformation puzzles game they flat told me this "i wouldnt put this much thought into a game about wrighten transformation when theres pics insted" my response was "because i wona know the answer to the damn riddle i dont even care about the tf any more" thin i directed one tothe game and they dled it played alittle got tot the number thing i herd them say nope and they stoped playing XD

None of them guessed unicorn?

none

now ones asking how its unicorn XD

(Please use the reply function)
" I am the face of regalness."
The unicorn has shown up as a national symbol on flags and arms, such as in the The Lion and the Unicorn

"I was born by the grapevine's distortion."
Unicorns come from a distorted description of a rhino. The grapevine refers to the passing on of messages and tales and the distortion that can happen to such messages is how games like Telephone fuction.

Yet I am the greatest customer.
Perfect/well behaved customers are referred to as unicorns due to rarity. Seen it quite a few times in stories from tech support.

I am not kidding, one time, I just put in Sphinx before doing anything else, and I won. Did not need to solve a single puzzle

Lucky guess!

Nice game! But I think I'm going to need another hint for this riddle.

About three times of the day and of two sisters asks I. Answer me or be consumed. What am I?

Well, for the first question this creature is asking the answer had to do with morning, mid-day, and evening

What computer is it for?

Any computer. You just open the game with an internet browser.

How are you supposed to figure out the number dial solution?

Let's say that you turned the dials 10 notches, The five dial would land on 0, and the eight dial would land on 2
If you turned them 16 notches, the five dial would land on 1 and the eight dial would land on 0.
If you turned them 41 notches, both dials would land on 1.

Does that help?

Haha, this makes me want to try my hand at making a game. Haven't finished it yet (but the failure text is fun... :P )

Oh? Which ending did you get?

I found myself transformed into a dragon on my first playthrough. When I had a little more time I sat down to play longer and found my way through.
The notch part seemed like it was going to be tricky at first, but I found a decent way of solving it with some division. After completing it I escaped a bit cattier than I entered : p

Very inspired to try to make a short interactive story with a little JS right now, thanks for the experience. :P

I hope you do make the story, would like to see what you would write.

Glad to hear! Started work on an engine today and made some decent progress :D

The riddles were really tricky,* but that was a fun one. ^_^ The frustration, mirror, and exit responses at various stages were a lot of fun and very flavorful. Great job getting this thing together! I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for any others you make.

I may have one super-minor suggestion to offer. I had to reset a ton to see the last transformation: it was starting to get a little frustrating, particularly since (unless my eyes glazed past), there doesn't seem to be any clue which one you've got until it starts. I'm guessing which one you get is equally weighted? I get the sinking suspicion it may be more trouble than it's worth (or create new unforeseen problems), but could it be worth considering some slight re-weighting of the odds based on... hmm, maybe the relative percentages of each TF's scenes a player's already seen across all playthroughs? (e.g. if someone's seen multiple exits, mirrors, and the game over for one shape, and none for either of the others, the other two become more likely to come up when resetting)

* I'll admit, hints/answers in these Comments are the only way I got through 3/4 of them. I'm not surprised, having never been very good at them. I did like the logic for most of them once I knew the answer, though, which I feel is one mark of a good, fair riddle. There is also some helpful theming involved, which would have helped if I'd put 2 and 2 together sooner. XD So kudos on the things!

I'm glad you had fun with it! It was nice, if quite a bit of work, to figure out how each ending would play out depending on how much you had transformed.

That is a pretty good suggestion, the problem is that depending on how the player resets the game that might be impossible to track. If I made a 'New Game' button it would be easy to track how many times a player has seen a given transformation. However, if they were to click the 'Reload' button on the side bar or were to refresh the game than there wouldn't be a way for me to track that.

I can believe it. I didn't count, but there were a healthy number of possible scenes down each species' path; multiplying that by 3 (plus the few fully human others) would add up.

Thanks. And aye, that would be an obstacle. Perhaps a disclaimer requesting that players use the hypothetical in-game 'New Game' button would have that covered?

Hmm, actually, given a means of recording events from prior playthroughs, there could be other possibilities. Granted, they'd make for more work, but it seems interesting to consider. Perhaps there's a "secret/final" path/form, unlikely to be found without help from a tablet near the start: it's originally blank, but picks up a clue for each ending (or a particular set thereof) a player's already experienced. Or it could even just be an opportunity for a little fun/replay value: maybe players who've gotten a certain path's "normal" ending find an extra option or two if they replay it, which could lead to a few extra possible scenes/endings that struck you as interesting ideas.

i cant figure out the stirrer of chaos riddle.

"In all digits except none come I.", so some kind of creature that can come as one of the following numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
"A god's servant, a stirrer of chaos" So this creature can either be a divine servant or one who causes chaos (plays tricks)
"and yet of the mundane." Despite being mythical this creature has the appearance of an animal, opposed to something like a chimera or a griffon.

i get that but hydra didnt work.

Hydra? I thought those didn't have a limited number of heads, so they could have 10 or more? You're thinking of the wrong culture.
Think a little more eastern~

Hercules caused the hydra to have 9 heads before he figured out he needed to burn the stumps. Also, forgive me for thinking of greek myths considering the TF is the greek version of the sphinx

There is actually a few different possible TFs you could get, which one you might get is chosen whenever you start the game.

Too hard for me, I was stumped on the first puzzle!

Ah, sorry to hear that. For the first puzzle the journal and the map do go together.
Did you end up getting one of the change ends, or did you stop after a few tries?

Got one of the changed ends. So you follow the journals directions knowing which ways north sout east and west thanks to the map?

Had a go at that but no luck

Did you check which way the compass pointed.
What set of directions did you get?

South North west east south

I think you might be confusing your Easts and your Wests on the compass.

WHOOPS

I didn't really understand the puzzle of the dials, so I just did trial and error.

"Starting with each dial in the 0 position, if you were to rotate each dial **** (four digit number) notches clockwise what would be the result?"

When I solved it the first time the number was "1975" and the answer was "first dial= 0" "second dial= 7"
I plan to try a few more times with other "answers" (now it's "1802") to see if I can figure out the "movements" for the normal response.

ps:Mainly, because I don't understand what "moves" the first dial and the second dial. If it moves the hands of a clock, a "disc" and what "moves" the two dials or "how" they move.

For example, in some games "moving" a "lever" moves the middle ring and the two adjacent numbers and the second lever moves the first number and the "number" to its right.

Ok, yes the indication in this case is this "otches clockwise" But the indication of the movements that the two "dials" make is not clear to me.

Maybe I'm too stubborn or I lack imagination.

The dials are ones that would be moved by hand, like the dial on a stove or a stereo, that's all the movement that they do. When you turn the dial on a stove the numbers don't move, only which number is being pointed at.

The only 'movement' is a dial being rotated to point at the different numbers.

Okay, although when you ask about the movement of the two dials. At least in this puzzle and using the examples. I'm asking about the movement of the "needle" or if there are two needles/hands.

I'll see if I can explain myself better. In this puzzle there are two vials, I don't know if one moves the "hand/pointer" or I don't know if there are two hands (like a clock), if one vial moves the hand two "squares/movements/numbers" or if the second dial moves "more" "movements/numbers" of the "hand/pointer".

That is:
-I don't know if there are two hands or just 1
-I don't know what each dial "moves" or how much each dial "moves" starting from 0 to the indicated number
-In the case that there is only one "hand/pointer", I don't know how much each dial moves the "pointer/hand". The only indication is that it moves in the same direction.

That would be my doubts or the points where I don't fully understand the puzzle.

That's why I was saying that if I'm too stubborn or because I try to imagine the puzzle and I lack imagination... or I'm making it too complicated.

There's two dials, which means two different dials to turn.

There's no seperate hands or pointers as the dials themselves already point at the numbers. It's just two dials, the left one ranging from zero to four, the other from zero to seven.

Ok, then sorry for the confusion. If it is like the image... now I just have no idea how to form 4-digit numbers with that.
Sorry to bother you with these doubts and questions.

If the "how" is part of the puzzle, there is no need to answer.

You're not forming a four digit number. It's asking if you were to individually rotate each dial that many notches clockwise.

For example

4 notches clockwise the left dial would end on 4, and the right dial would end on 4

7 notches clockwise the left dial would go past the top of the circle and land on 2, because five notches brings it back to 0, and then two more. The right dial would go to seven.

10 notches clockwise The left dial ends on 0, the right dial ends on two.

I had said "four digits" because of this:
Starting with each dial in the 0 position, if you were to rotate each dial 1975 notches clockwise what would be the result?

I had said "four digits" because of this:
Starting with each dial in the 0 position, if you were to rotate each dial 1975 notches clockwise what would be the result? (well, the answer was "first dial= 0" "second dial= 7")

Putting that as an example, are those numbers actually the number of times the dials rotate "notches clockwise". And one has to think about the notches in which the dials will be located?

Thanks for the explanation. Well, now let's see if the calculator helps with this problem XD

I'm not sure what you mean by 'the notches in which the dials will be located'.

This puzzle is about recognizing the pattern of modular arithmetic. For the left one, every fifth notch the dial is back to where it started. For the right one every eight notches its pointing at the 0 notch again.

In the example you have:
1975 is a multiple of five, so clearly if you spin 1975 notches the left dial will be pointing at the 0 notch.
The largest multiple of 8 smaller than 1975 is 1968. 1975 - 1968 = 7. So after spinning 1968 notches the dial would be pointing at the 0 notch with seven more notches to go. Therefor after 1975 notches the right dial would point at the 7 notch.

Sorry that I didn't understand. I write my comments with the help of Google Translate. Adding that I don't explain myself well...

Thanks for the example, although I understood the previous one, with this example it is easier to do the calculation ^^