“Escape Academy” is best with others, and it’s recommended to have paper and a pencil on hand. By setting the game in a university dedicated to escape rooms, the team had its pick of colorful settings in which to set its participatory challenges - think spacey computer labs, ornate Hogwarts-style libraries and cafeterias with antidotes to poison potions on the menu. The team’s first proper home video game, “Escape Academy,” takes Coin Crew’s love of group-focused games and adds a slightly mysterious narrative with some truly vexing puzzles. Adds partner Mike Mohammed Salyh, “I think having a lighthearted tone can break down barriers.”Īh, so there is a thesis behind the Coin Crew childishness: Games, Bushnell and Salyh believe, are for everyone.īut if “Battle Bowling” and prior arcade game “Hot Wheels: King of the Road” were both crazily fast-paced and all about celebratory, party-focused play with instantaneously approachable controls, Coin Crew matured a bit during the pandemic. And their desired audience? “Small children” and “drunk adults,” according to the “Battle Bowling” pitch.Īs if it wasn’t clear, there was no big theme of “universal morality,” says Coin Crew co-leader Wyatt Bushnell. How about competitive bowling amid spaceships and cowboys? Sure. All of it was designed to nod to an anything-goes era of gaming when the medium was new and a premium was placed on wackiness. Video games to the Coin Crew team meant virtual worlds that were silly, borderline absurd, heavily social and, hopefully, wildly addictive.
Since the beginning, the local firm had a mission: to prove those boxy arcade games never went out of style. Coin Crew Games was created with a love for play in physical, real-world spaces.
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