Structure
Procedural Factory Layout
The Voice alters the factory’s layout between runs, so the building is procedurally generated rather than memorised. Route knowledge transfers as vocabulary — room types, corridor habits, sightline rules — not as a map you can draw from memory.
The rule, in order
- 01 Learn rooms, not routes. A classroom behaves the same way wherever it spawns.
- 02 Count exits on entry. Every room type has a habit; a room with one exit is a decision, not an accident.
- 03 Do not trust a memorised shortcut. If the layout shifted, the shortcut is a dead end with your name on it.
Why it matters
A run in Escape from Playtime is a series of small commitments made with incomplete information, and this rule is one of the levers that decides how expensive a wrong commitment is. Treat it as a budget rather than a stat: the team that knows what it is spending is the team that gets to choose when to leave.
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