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Our campaign is live, offering tons of exciting rewards for early backers, from VIP tickets to Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill to a specially designed edition of Frankenstein featuring original artworks by renowned comic-book artist Liana Kangas.

Read more at our official website here: https://www.motheroffrankenstein.com/

GAME DESCRIPTION

Unlike most puzzle games and escape rooms, Mother of Frankenstein was designed to be as welcoming and fun for newbies as it is rewarding for experts. Recommended for groups of 1-6, ages 13 and up, MoF combines the dense narrative complexity of a good novel with the physicality and interactivity of immersive theater, the brain-bending challenge of a puzzle-filled escape room with the accessibility and broad appeal of the best board games. Throw in a couple of clue-strewn jigsaw puzzles, and our game truly has something for everyone!

Each volume should take 3-5 hours to complete. Volume 1 concerns Mary's teenage years. We learn about her education by her iconoclastic father and complete three assignments on the subjects she most loved as a student—poetry, music, and astronomy—each of which is presented in the form of a puzzle. Simultaneously, Mary embarks on a love affair with the dashing (but married) poet Percy Shelley. The course of their courtship is laid out over 15 love letters—complete with original poetry, gorgeous drawings, and some heavy flirting—but be warned, in Mother of Frankenstein, there are always secrets hidden in the spaces between the words, for those who know how to look...

In Volume 2, the venue changes to a certain famous castle in Germany. You’ll begin by constructing a 300-piece jigsaw puzzle that will serve as a sort of key to the mysteries that follow. One puzzle involves a ball thrown on a balmy summer night in 1814, for which you’ll have to chart the events of the evening by way of gossip rags, billiard hall schedules, and original drawings by comic book artist Liana Kangas. Afterwards you’ll descend into the bowels of the castle with alchemist Conrad Dippel, and discover what Mary learned under his tutelage.

Finally, in Volume 3, you’ll construct an epic 3D puzzle of the same castle and use it to...well, we aren’t ready to give away all of our plans just yet!

The Team

Tommy Wallach is the author of five novels, including We All Looked Up, which spent over 25 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and Thanks for the Trouble, which he adapted for film and is currently attached to direct in collaboration with Confluential Films and UnbeliEVAble Entertainment. The final book of his trilogy, The Anchor and Sophia, was released this past August. Tommy was also signed to Decca Records as a singer/songwriter.

Terry Rolapp spent the aughts in New York City racking up degrees and passing time as a composer, playwright, graphic artist, computer programmer, and a professor of art and public policy at NYU. Then he picked up an MBA at UCLA and ran a few awesome companies before founding Hatch Escapes. In designing and building escape rooms and tabletop games, Terry has finally found the perfect vehicle for his unique assortment of skills and interests.

Arvind Ethan David is a lead producer on Jagged Little Pill on Broadway and producer of David Baddiel and Erran Baron Cohen’s The Infidel. He is a writer on Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys for Amazon, co-creator and showrunner of Knights of the Borrowed Dark, and was executive producer of the BBC America/Netflix series Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, starring Elijah Wood. David has produced eight feature films and is currently writing Gray, a graphic novel for Ted Adams’ Clover Press that is a modern, feminist take on Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Prodigal is also helping to produce Hatch’s The Ladder.

Hatch Escapes is an escape room and gaming company based in LA. Hatch is the home of Lab Rat, currently ranked the 12th best escape room in the world, and the forthcoming The Ladder, which had the most successful escape room Kickstarter campaign of all time.

Prodigal is the company behind Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and Broadway's Jagged Little Pill, is an entertainment company based in Los Angeles, California that tells stories across television, film, comics, audioplays, and theatre. Prodigal is also helping to produce Hatch’s The Ladder.