Creation kit

Discover a variety of toolsheets which propose key information and a tutorial for useful resources to help you through each step of the digital escape game creation process. 

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Scenario structure
Enigma making tools
Interactivity tools
Support material
Visuals and animations
Sounds and music collection

Scenario structure

Genially template

Genially’s linear escape‑room template offers a clear, step-by-step path where each puzzle leads directly to the next. The structure works like a guided storyline: players solve one challenge, unlock the next screen, and continue forward without branching paths. This logic map helps creators see how each step connects, so players always know what to do next without getting lost.

Miro

Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard platform that allows educators and facilitators to design and structure virtual escape rooms using visual maps, flowcharts, and connected blocks. It supports the creation of narrative pathways, puzzle sequences, and branching logic in a clear and interactive way.

Enigma making tools

Armored Penguin Cipher Tool

Armored Penguin Cipher Tool is a free online generator for classic ciphers (Caesar, Vigenère, substitution). It is ideal for creating coded messages, secret clues, and encryption-based puzzles for escape games.

CyberChef

CyberChef is a web-based tool designed to analyse, decode, and transform data using a wide range of operations. It is especially useful for creating and solving cipher-based and logic puzzles in escape games.

Cryptii

Cryptii is a free, web‑based tool for modular conversion, encoding, decoding, and basic encryption of text and data, letting users transform information between different formats (like Morse, Caesar cipher, or numeral systems) right in the browser without sending data to a server.

Educaplay

Web-based platform for creating educational games such as crosswords, word searches, and riddles, adaptable to escape room enigmas.

dCode

dCode is an easy-to-use website with more than 900 tools to help you create or solve codes, puzzles, math problems, and word games. It also includes many simple cipher generators and decoders, making it great for teachers or anyone who wants to build fun, creative puzzles or escape‑room activities.

Morse Code World

The Morse Code World translator is a simple online tool that lets you turn any text into Morse code — or Morse code back into normal text — in just a few clicks. You can even play the sound, flash a light, or share the message with others.

RapidTables

Rapid Tables is a tool that converts your text to binary code. It can use 8-bit binary code (ASCII/UTF-8), but it’s also possible to choose among many others.

Create Cryptogram

This cryptogram builder is an online tool that allows educators to easily create cryptogram puzzles where messages are encrypted using letter substitution. It is ideal for code-breaking activities in educational escape games.

Puzzlemaker

Puzzlemaker is a free online tool that allows educators and creators to generate printable or digital puzzles. It is ideal for creating word-based challenges for escape games in a simple and fast way.

Interactivity tools

Lockee

Lockee.fr is a web tool that lets you create virtual locks to hide and share digital content (like text, images, audio, video, or links) that others can unlock by solving puzzles or codes.

QR Code Monkey

This is a free online QR code generator that lets you quickly create custom and high‑quality QR codes for URLs, text, contact info, Wi‑Fi details, and more with personalization options like colors and logos. It’s designed to be easy to use without technical skills, making QR code creation simple and accessible.

H5P

An open-source platform that enables users to create and share rich interactive HTML5 content such as quizzes, drag-and-drop tasks, hotspots, branching scenarios, and interactive books that can be embedded into websites or learning platforms – making it ideal for digital escape room puzzles.

Learning Apps

A free, web-based tool that allows users to create simple interactive activities such as matching pairs, sequencing, multiple-choice quizzes, and short-answer tasks that can easily be adapted into puzzles for digital escape rooms.

Genially’s Reveal function

A function in Genially using “hide” and “reveal” interactivities to make objects appear or disappear until you click on a clue/the right answer.

S’Cape DND Lemniscape

DND from S’Cape is a Genially add‑on that lets you easily create drag‑and‑drop interactions for puzzles, challenges, and escape‑game activities where players move objects, test ideas, and get instant feedback.

Genially Flipcard template

The Genially Flipcard template allows educators to create interactive cards that flip on click to reveal hidden information. It is ideal for clues, hints, codes and progressive discovery in digital escape games.

Twine

Twine is a free, open-source tool that allows users to create interactive, nonlinear stories without advanced programming. It is well suited for building branching narratives and decision-based escape games.

Moiki

Moiki is an intuitive platform for creating interactive stories where players make choices that influence the narrative. It is ideal for constructing branching escape games, interactive missions, and story-driven puzzles without any coding skills.

Room Escape Maker

Room Escape Maker is an online tool that allows users to create interactive digital escape rooms without any coding. It is suitable for educational activities, gamified learning, and collaborative challenges.

ThingLink

ThingLink is a tool that allows you to turn images, videos, or 360° environments into interactive learning experiences. It is ideal for creating immersive escape game rooms with clickable hotspots, clues, and multimedia puzzles.

Support material

S’Cape DND Lemniscape

S’CAPE is an educational support platform offering practical guides, templates, and methodological tools to help teachers and facilitators design, implement, and debrief educational escape games.

Escape Fake

A digital educator / facilitator toolkit accompanying the Escape Fake game, providing resources such as workshop formats, room walkthroughs, worksheets and debrief materials to integrate the game into classroom or training settings.

ELMET Guide

The ELMET Guide is a practical methodology guide that supports educators in designing, facilitating and debriefing educational escape rooms. It focuses on pedagogy, learner engagement and reflective learning rather than technology.

Visuals and animation

Sumo Paint

Sumo Paint is a free, browser-based image editing and painting app with a Photoshop-like interface, offering brushes, layers, filters, and other creative tools. It’s great for digital drawing, photo editing, and graphic design without needing to install software.

SVGator

SVGator is an intermediate animation tool that lets you create SVG animations without writing any code. It provides powerful visual controls to export lightweight, web-ready animated graphics.

PIXLR

An online photo editor that allows users to quickly edit images, add text, symbols, effects, and layers, making it ideal for creating visual clues, coded images, maps, and backgrounds for digital escape rooms.

Fodey

Fodey is an online generator that allows users to create realistic newspaper snippets by customising headlines, subheadings, images, and article text, ideal for storytelling and immersive learning activities.

SVG Repo

SVG Repo is an online library offering thousands of free and open-licence SVG icons and illustrations that can be downloaded and reused for games, educational materials, and escape room design.

The Ransomizer

The Ransomizer is an online tool that generates realistic ransom-note-style visuals using cut-out letters, allowing users to create immersive and playful messages for escape games and storytelling activities.

Flaticon

Flaticon is an online library offering thousands of free Creative Commons icons. These icons can be used to design escape games, visual clues, printable puzzles and digital challenges in an engaging and accessible way.

Genially

An online platform for creating interactive, animated presentations and gamified content (quizzes, infographics, escape‑rooms) without coding.

ThingLink

ThingLink is an interactive media platform that allows users to create immersive visual scenarios using images, 360° environments, and clickable hotspots. It is especially effective as a scenario builder for digital escape rooms.

Sounds and music collection

Open Game Art

Open Game Art is a collaborative online platform offering a large library of free music and sound effects. Users can search, preview, and download sounds for use in projects such as games, videos, or digital escape rooms.

Freesound.org

This is a website which has a very long list to download free sounds. The only thing asked is for credits sometimes, you can find different type of licenses: approved for free cultural works, Creative Commons, attribution nonCommercial and might need attribution.

Bensound

A platform offering free and royalty-free background music tracks that can be used to create immersive atmospheres, tension, or mood in digital escape rooms and educational games.

SFXR

A browser-based sound effect generator inspired by retro 8-bit video games that allows users to create, play, and export custom chiptune-style sounds for game interfaces, interactions, and events.

Zapsplat

Zapsplat is a large online library of sound effects and audio assets, offering thousands of free and premium sounds suitable for games, escape rooms, videos, and interactive educational projects.

Mixkit

Mixkit is a free online platform offering high-quality sound effects and background music that can be used without attribution. It is ideal for creating immersive soundscapes in educational escape games.

Murf AI

Murf AI is an easy-to-use text-to-speech tool that allows you to create professional, natural-sounding voiceovers. It provides a wide selection of voices ideal for narrations, in-game characters, clues, and atmospheric messages in a digital escape game.

Uppbeat

Uppbeat is a free copyright-safe sound and music library ideal for creating feedback and atmosphere in digital escape games.