Hi all! I am designing an Escape Room in a Box style game, akin to the Exit games, but closer in relation to the Puzzletales designed from PostCurious.
It's a series of one-time puzzles that slowly unlock a story while unlocking more components.
I have a fully designed and printed version of this, but it's fairly shorter than my target length for this. There are 6 puzzles designed and printed, and a draft of the story. The story is presented as journal entries, so I have them condensed, and can rewrite those to longer or shorter if needed. I imagine this will take an hour or less, but my goal is a 2-3 hour experience.
My question is: now that I have a printed prototype of this, even though it's shorter, do I continue with testing in it's current state before adding additional puzzles? Do I test each individual puzzle separately? Do I wait to test until I have a more full version?
Any advice would be awesome, and thanks!