About Escapp

An open-source platform for creating, conducting and sharing educational escape rooms

Main features

Escape room authoring games

Escape room authoring

Design your escape room step by step: basic settings, instructions, puzzles, hints, evaluation and sharing, with fully customizable appearance and interactive scenes.

Reusable puzzles extension

Reusable puzzles

Pick ready-made interactive puzzles from the catalog and configure them for your activity, or add your own ones without writing a single line of code.

Shifts and teams groups

Shifts and teams

Run the same escape room with as many groups as you need: scheduled, always-open, public and test shifts, with individual or team participation.

Hint system lightbulb

Hint system

Define hints per puzzle and decide how participants can get them, with configurable costs and rewards and a dedicated hint interface.

Learning analytics insights

Learning analytics

Monitor progress in real time and review rankings, progress charts, timelines, histograms and puzzle statistics once the activity is over.

Assessment and grading school

Assessment and grading

Set up a grading rubric: how much the puzzles and the hints weigh, how much counts for taking part, and export participants' results.

EscappNet language

EscappNet

Search escape rooms published across every connected Escapp instance, play them, or import them into your own profile to adapt them.

API and integrations link

API and integrations

Connect your own resources, apps and puzzles to Escapp through its API, and import or export complete escape rooms.

Free and self-hostable dns

Free and self-hostable

Escapp is published under the GNU GPL v3 licence, is available in several languages, and any institution can deploy its own instance.

call_splitSource code

Escapp's source code is publicly available on GitHub.

  • Version v2.2.1
  • Revision cf94a13e
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cast_for_educationFree online course

Learn how to design, create and run educational escape rooms with Escapp.

Creating digital escape rooms with Escapp

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menu_bookDocumentation

Guides and manuals for teachers, students and developers.

euro_symbolFunding

This software is co-funded by the European Union through the IGLUE (Implementation of Game-based Learning Using Escape Rooms) project under the Erasmus+ Programme.

Project reference: 2024-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000256356

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Research about Escapp

Escapp has been used to run educational escape rooms both in class and remotely. These experiences have resulted in the following research articles:

  1. AI Agents for Scaling Real-Time Support in Educational Escape Roomsopen_in_new Barra, E., López-Pernas, S., Conde, J., Gordillo, A. IT Professional (2026)
  2. Designing online educational escape rooms for sustainable development and academic growth: is all that glitters gold?open_in_new Gutiérrez Gómez-Calcerrada, S., Santamaría-Urbieta, A. Digital Creativity (2026)
  3. Reusable Unity-based Puzzles for the Escapp Educational Escape Room Platformopen_in_new Ćosić, M., López-Pernas, S., Gordillo, A., Barra, E., Santamaría-Urbieta, A., Kostić, M., Milošević, M. eLearning 2025 (2025)
  4. Analysing Student Engagement Through the Definition of Educational Escape Roomsopen_in_new Conde, M. Á., García-Esteban, J., Román-Gallego, J. Á., López-Pernas, S. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2025)
  5. Designing an Educational Escape Room in Biomedical Sciences using Text-to-Image Generative AIopen_in_new Lecture Notes in Educational Technology (ICSLE 2025) (2025)
  6. Empowering Database Learning Through Remote Educational Escape Roomsopen_in_new Barra, E., López-Pernas, S., Gordillo, A., Pozo, A., Muñoz-Arcentales, A., Conde, J. IEEE Internet Computing, 28(1), 18-25 (2024)
  7. Are Remote Educational Escape Rooms Designed During the Pandemic Useful in a Postpandemic Face-to-Face Setting?open_in_new López-Fernández, D., Gordillo, A., López-Pernas, S., Tovar, E. IEEE Internet Computing, 28(1), 34-41 (2024)
  8. Hint Strategies in Educational Escape Rooms: A Process Mining Approachopen_in_new Santamaría-Urbieta, A., López-Pernas, S. Revista de Educación, 405, 13-38 (2024)
  9. Tracking students' progress in educational escape rooms through a sequence analysis inspired dashboardopen_in_new López-Pernas, S., Gordillo, A., Barra, E., Saqr, M. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (EC-TEL 2024), 119-124 (2024)
  10. Game learning analytics: The case of online educational escape roomsopen_in_new López-Pernas, S., Gordillo, A., Barra, E., Saqr, M. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (FLAIEC 2022), 3383, 121-122 (2023)
  11. A Learning Analytics Perspective on Educational Escape Roomsopen_in_new López-Pernas, S., Saqr, M., Gordillo, A., Barra, E. Interactive Learning Environments (2022)
  12. Escapp: A Web Platform for Conducting Educational Escape Roomsopen_in_new López-Pernas, S., Gordillo, A., Barra, E., Quemada, J. IEEE Access, 9, 38062-38077 (2021)
  13. Technology-Enhanced Educational Escape Rooms: A Road Mapopen_in_new López-Pernas, S., Gordillo, A., Barra, E. IT Professional, 23(2), 26-32 (2021)
  14. Comparing Face-to-Face and Remote Educational Escape Rooms for Learning Programmingopen_in_new López-Pernas, S., Gordillo, A., Barra, E., Quemada, J. IEEE Access, 9, 59270-59285 (2021)
  15. Evaluating an Educational Escape Room Conducted Remotely for Teaching Software Engineeringopen_in_new Gordillo, A., López-Fernández, D., López-Pernas, S., Quemada, J. IEEE Access, 8, 225032-225051 (2020)
  16. Analyzing Learning Effectiveness and Students' Perceptions of an Educational Escape Room in a Programming Course in Higher Educationopen_in_new López-Pernas, S., Gordillo, A., Barra, E., Quemada, J. IEEE Access, 7, 184221-184234 (2019)
  17. Examining the Use of an Educational Escape Room for Teaching Programming in a Higher Education Settingopen_in_new López-Pernas, S., Gordillo, A., Barra, E., Quemada, J. IEEE Access, 7, 31723-31737 (2019)
  18. Identification, analysis of requirements for a web platform for managing educational escape roomsopen_in_new López-Pernas, S., Gordillo, A., Barra, E., Quemada, J. ICERI 2019, 4874-4883 (2019)