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A top-down photograph of the printed materials for the game 'The Green Star' scattered on a desk. In the center, a smartphone displays a 3D retro-style telescope control panel with orange glowing buttons. Surrounding the phone are 1950s-style documents, a specimen card and a folded origami model of a fly.

🔭 The Green Star is live on @boardgamegeek.com
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1950s comic book art showing terrified people pointing at a massive green beam of light descending from the night sky over a city.

We just released "The Green Star" on itch. It is a tactile printable escape room that puts you in the role of an agent sent to a remote 1953 observatory to investigate an astronomer and a signal from the stars that shouldn't exist.

🔗 Be the first to investigate: bromelain.itch.io/the-green-star

A top-down view of 'The Green Star' printable escape room components. Includes a smartphone showing a telescope interface, paper specimen cards, ciphers, and vintage 1950s-style mission documents.

We’ve just released The Green Star, a brand-new printable escape room adventure. It’s a standalone mission that merges 1950s Golden Age comic aesthetics with modern tactile puzzle design.

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A chaotic, top-down view of a desk covered in printed game materials for the print-and-play escape room game "The Green Star." The spread includes vintage-style comic book pages featuring a man looking through a telescope, typewritten "Classified" documents, a paper slide-rule tool, and star charts.

The Green Star is currently in its final beta phase. We are actively using data from these test runs to sharpen the puzzles and refine the narrative flow. Public access is opening soon.

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The Secret of Langton Manor A print-and-play gem that beats the big boxes at their own game

🏚️ The Secret of Langton Manor

A series of the best print-and-play escape room games I have played, mixing the tactile puzzles of the Exit series with a spooky horror story.

🧩 Rating: 9/10
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Resurrecting the Golden Age: The Artistic Origins of The Green Star When we began developing our newest printable escape room, we spent a significant amount of time seeking a new visual identity. We looked for a distinctive style that would stand out from modern…

From the archives of 1950s sci-fi to your printer. We explore the artistic origins of The Green Star and its connection to the Langton Manor lore.

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Glad Episode 2 is landing well, the story does open up here.

Episode 1 is just the beginning… 👻

Black-and-white photo of a broken Sumerian cuneiform tablet on white, densely inscribed; edges are fractured like an excavated artifact.

Designer Diary: How Victorian archaeology shaped Langton Manor Ep. 2. The huluppu tree from a Sumerian myth became a basement mystery: ancient, wrong, and perfect for puzzles. 📜

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A vintage-style promotional image for The Secret of Langton Manor's Halloween sale. It features a person in a spooky costume holding a jack-o'-lantern with text that reads, "A Haunting 31% Off on all episodes and bundle.

I'm excited to announce the Langton Manor Halloween Sale is on!

Descend into a mystery of supernatural horror with 31% OFF all episodes. It's a printable, story-driven escape game perfect for a spooky night in.

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#gamedev #indiegame #horrorgame #escaperoom #halloween

A retro comic book panel from 'The Green Star,' a printable escape room game. An astronomer, Dr. Peel, reveals his obsession by saying, 'Just one star. The others don't matter anymore,' hinting at the game's cosmic horror mystery.

The investigation into THE GREEN STAR is now open. The full game arrives late 2025.
Follow the case and get exclusive updates by subscribing to the newsletter.
All subscribers will receive a special launch-day discount.
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✳️ TRANSMISSION RECEIVED ✳️
We've recovered a 35mm film from the Bancroft Institute archives, produced during Dr. Joshua Peel's investigation into 'The Green Star.'
Watch the archival footage now.

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Retro comic book cover art titled "The Green Star: A Langton Manor Escape." It depicts several people in a city street, looking up in alarm as a wide, bright green beam of light shines down from a mysterious green star in the night sky.

Announcing THE GREEN STAR!

This new standalone printable escape room plunges you into a Cold War mystery of paranormal signals & atomic age secrets, inspired by a classic 1959 comic.

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In the updated version, the 'Closet' card on page 3 has this scissors symbol added, that was not there on the old version:

A close-up of the assembled 'Diary of Samuel Thorne' puzzle prop for the printable escape room 'The Secret of Langton Manor: Episode 4'. The booklet is open to an entry dated December 3, 1842, discussing mysterious seeds that refuse to grow.

I've updated Episode 4 of 🧩The Secret of Langton Manor to fix a PDF issue in the Diary of Samuel and add extra clues. If you own Episode 4, please re-download the files.
More details: bromelain.mobi/blog/news/ep...

The Real-Life Haunted Doll Legend Behind The Printable Escape Room August 19th, 2025  Every game needs a setting, and for The Secret of Langton Manor, I wanted a chilling, gothic feel. To give the place a solid foundation, I started with a real-world location:…

Truth is stranger than fiction. The haunted doll in my printable escape room game is based on a real legend I found in an old newspaper article.

Discover the creepy true story:
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Escape Room at Home: The Rise of Escape Room Board Games July 5th, 2025  Remember the first time you stepped into a real-world escape room - heart thumping, timer looming, friends shouting half-baked code guesses across a dimly lit space? Now imagine bottli...

Blog post on the rise of escape room board games—why playing at home became its own kind of adventure:
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Close-up of a shocked man in vintage comic book style. His eyes are wide, mouth slightly open, and lines radiate from his head, suggesting alarm or horror. The background is pinkish-red with black bursts emphasizing his emotional reaction.

"Found it near the telescope - inside a sealed glass capsule. A common housefly - or at least it looked like one. But far too large. Unnatural."
The Green Star is a printable escape room, based on a 1959 comic and set in the Atomic Age.
🧩 Coming soon.
#greenstar #printandplay #escaperoom #puzzlegame

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The Green Star escape room game is part of a growing Langton Manor extended universe.
This one’s set in the Atomic Age.

🔭 Full game. Print-and-play. Coming soon.
🔗 Explore the other mysteries: bromelain.itch.io

Close-up of a 1950s comic book cover titled Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds. The subtitle reads, “What was the secret power of The Green Star?!” A mechanical pencil and a vintage slide rule rest diagonally across the lower part of the comic, suggesting a Cold War scientific theme.

In 1959, Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds ran a strange story: The Green Star. Now it’s a print-and-play escape room built from that forgotten comic — full of Cold War tension, puzzles, and a telescope that sees something no one else can.
Coming soon.
#printandplay #greenstar #escaperoom #indiegames

The Secret of Langton Manor by bromelain.mobi Printable Escape Room Game (Episodes 1-4)

🕵️‍♂️ The Secret of Langton Manor: Episodes 1–4
Now on @itch.io as a bundle - 6+ hours of print-and-play escape room puzzles, designed to be played over multiple sessions. Perfect to catch up before Episode 5 arrives!
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#printandplay #escaperoom #puzzlegame #indiegames

Ambie and I are playing the fourth chapter of the Langton Manor print-and-play escape room puzzle game tonight on stream. We’re starting later than usual because there are more technical issues when streaming with a tabletop camera for a physical game.

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A dark, eerie illustration of a face emerging from tangled, root-like tendrils. The words The Secret of Langton Manor appear in a bold font, with Episode 4: Decay written in gothic red letters below. The image evokes a sense of mystery and horror, fitting the theme of the game’s latest chapter.

🕯️Episode 4: Decay is OUT!🕯️
The past refuses to stay buried… In this chapter of The Secret of Langton Manor, long-hidden truths emerge. Will you dare to uncover what lies beneath?
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Bold red ‘13 MARCH’ over a collage of game elements, including puzzles, locks, and notes from The Secret of Langton Manor.

Episode 4: Decay arrives on March 13! 🕯️ The mystery deepens as Langton Manor’s darkest secrets come to light.

Catch up before release! Get previous episodes at 40% off—sale ends March 13! ⏳

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Episode 4: Decay – Coming Soon! The mystery deepens… The Secret of Langton Manor – Episode 4: Decay is set to release by the end of the month! As the shadows grow darker, long-buried secrets will finally come to light. Are you r...

Episode 4: Decay is coming by the end of the month! The mystery deepens—are you ready to uncover the truth? 🕵️‍♂️

Returning players can grab a free illustrated recap of Episodes 1-3 at bromelain.itch.io/the-secret-o...

“I ran my hand along the walls, desperate to find a crack, a seam-anything to prove this wasn’t real. There was nothing.
I am still here. And now the house is breathing.”
🕯️ Episode 4: Decay is in production. Stay tuned!👀

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A haunting charcoal sketch of sunken, ghostly eyes staring forward, surrounded by dark smudges and shadowy lines. The eerie, lifeless gaze gives the unsettling impression of something watching from the other side of a mirror.

"Ghostly eyes stared back at me from the glass tonight… but they weren’t mine."
In Langton Manor, some things don’t stay behind the glass. 🕯️ Episode 4: Decay is in production. Stay tuned—some reflections cannot be trusted. 👁️👀
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I'm excited to announce that I have a new podcast series called Behind the Cardboard, under the banner of The Game Design Round Table. Episodes will be going out every other week on TGDRT feed.

In each episode I speak to a guest about the business & practicalities of being a board game designer.

The Secret of Langton Manor - pnptime.com Once you step inside the Manor, there’s no going back till you solve the mystery! Read my take on The Secret of Langton Manor Episode 1.

🕵️‍♂️ "The game has a fine balance of solving mysteries and a captivating narrative."

A new review of The Secret of Langton Manor is out! Check it out here: 🔍
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A haunting pencil sketch of an elegant yet eerie manor staircase, with a tall mirror on the wall. The faint, blurred outline of a figure is visible in the mirror, adding a ghostly presence to the silent, empty space.

"Silence has taken hold of the house.Not a creak in the wood, not a whisper in the walls - just an oppressive stillness that settles like dust."
🕯️Episode 4: Decay is in production. Stay tuned for updates. 👀
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