A storyline will help ensure there's a purpose to the escape room. Maybe your players have to get out of the room in order to deliver top secret intel - or they might have to break into a room in order to successfully "diffuse a bomb." Whatever the storyline, make sure it's easily digestible to the guests. Whether your main storyline is simple or complex, you want to make sure each piece will be doable. Try writing one sentence for each part of the storyline to ensure it doesn't get too complicated. For example, for the beginning of a story you could write, "The players wake up in a room. They see a big poster in front of them with letters and numbers. They solve the puzzle and find out they are in the year 3015." Use sticky notes and a poster or a powerpoint presentation to outline what the players will be doing at each step of the story. Write your one-sentence descriptions on separate post-its, and organize them somewhere you can see.  For example, if the players have to unlock a door in order to escape one room, decide how many clues and puzzles they have to solve along the way and how long they will take. If the players are supposed to find a key, you could require them to gather clues from around the room to spell out the key's location. If you're planning an exceptionally large escape room, or will have many guests, you could have a flowchart that forks at one point -- as long as everything comes together nicely at the end. After the players solve each puzzle, make sure there are instructions or another clue left that leads them to the next piece of the story.  If the players successfully unlock a box, place clues and information inside the box that will lead them to the next challenge and puzzle. Keep in mind the plot of the story, tying together the beginning, middle, climax, and resolution.
فكر في تسلسل قصصي للعبة يتماشي مع الموقع والموضوع اللذيْن اخترتهما. قسّم القصة على أجزاء تسلسلية. ارسم مُخططًا انسيابيًا لأجزاء القصة. تأكد من كون كل جزء من القصة يقود إلى الجزء التالي.