THE BATHROOM ESCAPE SAGA

Last Updated: 2025/01/14

Now here's a story...
It all started back in 2017, when I suddenly came up with the idea of making an point&click adventure game while visiting a dentistry, or more specifically, their restroom.
Having to return a couple of times meant more restroom photos, therefore, more games! The fifth game, however, reuses images from the previous game.
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This set off an amazing adventure. You see, even though I have only released 10 "Escape from X Bathroom" games (5 of which are the "Evil Dentist" series. Also I'm not sure if I have all the games listed on my games page now), I have, in fact, taken pictures of well over a dozen public (and sometimes private) restrooms.
I was on a sort of a..public restroom eurotrip you could say? It was quite something...
One time I had to wait for a guy to leave, but even well over an hour later he still stood in the stall, doing nothing, not even making a sound! I discreetly took photos of the stall I was in (and his sneakers) and left.
Another time some arab opened the exit door right as I was about to snag a photo. I vacated the premises thinking about my life choices. Another time, another day. A tiny Kaufland restroom must have had a special shitting event because the queue was uncomfortably big.
Mission failed...
Nowhere was safe from my phone's camera. And there was no bigger dissapoinment than running into people and realizing that I won't get any alone time...
One french restroom was a black cube in the middle of the street, you had to pay to enter, it looked like black marble of sorts. I was excited! Just imagine the possibilities!!! I even let someone sneak in without paying by holding the door after I was done.

But as always with me there is always some kind of catch or major fuckup, which, in this case was style-related, dare I say.
Refusing to produce any more drivel, I stopped making new bathroom/restroom escape games after June 2017, and worst of all, DELETED the entire 200 mb photo collection!!! The black marble cube, the tiny kaufland one, all GONE! The library of Alexandria pales in comparison to what was lost.
Didn't I say I had to forfeit my photo session in Kaufland though? Oh yeah, about that. I did get alone time, in fact, it was like I owned the place! In 2017. I came back to the very same place the next year to make up for the loss, but was out of luck.
But before we get to 2018,... In late 2017 I asked my friends to share their bathrooms and they did, which led to the making of Blue, Migraine and Cemetery bathroom games. I went on my restroom pilgrimage and managed to rebuild my collection somewhat.
Unfortunately I went NUTS that year. The events repeated with increased severity: all photos were lost, in fact, I lost the source code to half of my games as well as many other things in the process too. And stopped making games aswell, though I'm not sure why that happened.

The dentistry has renovated their restroom since those good ole days. I uh,.. actually have this new one, alongside a really crappy one that was demolished shortly after I took pics (the bathroom breakers caught wind of the unpredictable turderazzi and memoryholed it).
Perhaps one day more games will come. Speaking of games,
One in particular was so tremendously creative I should have the firing squad execute me for not making it:
THE BATHROOM HARVESTER!
Inspired by my short-lived tradition of playing Harvester each december, and by those awkward experiences from earlier (they haunt me to this day. You may laugh but I am mentally tortured by random memories, every day!)

The story is quite simple, you and your rival have a map of all the local restrooms. You each start at one corner of the map and you can only move from point A to point B or B to A e.g. you can't do one level in one part of the town and then go elsewhere. Each restroom has a series of challenges. How do you enter? How do you fool the guard? What if you get stuck? And finally, you obviosly somehow get locked inside and must escape, but not before unleashing your camera! For each succesful venture you capture the point on the map, preventing the rival from capturing it later. Move further, capture more, after several moves the game ends and whoever captured the most restrooms WINS!
A game like this couldn't be made in the engine I used back then (too many levels crashed the editor, and since each bathroom would have the outside area + a few to several pictures for the interior it would be too much to even try) so I gave up on the notion. Perhaps I'll make it someday. This idea is copyrighted and I have proof and papers verifying my ownership of it. Thank you for reading... And stay tuned for more stories from the glorious golden age.



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