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Subject: FREE GAME: Escape Academy
From: Spalls Hurgenson
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:00 UTC

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From: spallshurgenson@gmail.com (Spalls Hurgenson)
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Subject: FREE GAME: Escape Academy
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:00:11 -0500
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Let's see what's trending on Epic. Oh look, a free game. I bet that
none of you saw that coming. Good thing I'm so on-the-ball these days
;-)

* Escape Academy
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/escape-academy-bfc2bf
This one is a third-person adventure/logic-puzzle game.
Wander about looking for various puzzles to solve. Solve
said puzzles. Find next one until you have explored every
room and escaped. But hurry, 'cause there's a timer. Play
solo or online. Conceptually, it may be good, but I'm not
feeling the vibe on this one. It seems the sort of game
mostly aimed at multiplayer, where you and a bunch of
friends can shout at each other as the timer ticks down.
You know, the sort of game that you play once or twice
for the ha-ha-ha-isn't-this-dumb fun and then put away
forever. Plus, I burnt out on solving logic puzzles with
7th Guest. All-in-all, it just ain't my bag.

In honor of logic puzzles, to claim this game, you must solve this
Tower of Hanoi puzzle:

| | |
_+_ | |
_____ | |
_______ | |
_________ | |
============================

Or, you know, just click that 'add-to cart' button within the next
seven days. Whichever.

Subject: Re: FREE GAME: Escape Academy
From: Spalls Hurgenson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:36 UTC
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From: spallshurgenson@gmail.com (Spalls Hurgenson)
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Subject: Re: FREE GAME: Escape Academy
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:36:41 -0500
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:00:11 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>Let's see what's trending on Epic. Oh look, a free game. I bet that
>none of you saw that coming. Good thing I'm so on-the-ball these days
>;-)
>
>
>* Escape Academy
>https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/escape-academy-bfc2bf

Also, apparently, it is a repeat game, first offered by Epic just over
a year ago.

<grumble> They could at least have thrown in some free DLC if they
were doing a repeat...

Subject: Re: FREE GAME: Escape Academy
From: Ant
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:14 UTC
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:00:11 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
> <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> >Let's see what's trending on Epic. Oh look, a free game. I bet that
> >none of you saw that coming. Good thing I'm so on-the-ball these days
> >;-)
> >
> >
> >* Escape Academy
> >https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/escape-academy-bfc2bf

> Also, apparently, it is a repeat game, first offered by Epic just over
> a year ago.

> <grumble> They could at least have thrown in some free DLC if they
> were doing a repeat...

Ditto, but that would be greedy. /s ;)
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comp / comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action / Re: FREE GAME: Escape Academy

Subject	Author
FREE GAME: Escape Academy	Spalls Hurgenson
Re: FREE GAME: Escape Academy	Spalls Hurgenson
Re: FREE GAME: Escape Academy	Ant