128 - The Infinite Escape Room Podcast!

Now, before you listen to our podcast, you should check out The Infinite Escape Room Podcast which we reference all through the episode! We have a wonderful time with Mike and Ben.

Escape the Cat Cafe, featuring the Room Escape Divas

Then, come and listen to our podcast! Mike and Ruby and their baby join us as well! Huzzah for a full complement of hosts! And Mike and Ben of TIER are brilliant! ^_^

At the moment, we do not have a youtube video ready, but one is recorded, so if you are interested, you can come back later to see them all in their glory!

127 - Escape Rooms on Mobile

In today's episode, we talk about escape games you can play on your phone with Tammy Dorn and Andrew Ow. They both work at the indie-game company Haiku Games and discuss their design philosphy when creating escape rooms for the mobile phone.

04 - Designer Spotlight Video: Agent November

Manpans and Errol have a fun chat with Nathan Glover of Agent November! We go into all sorts of behind the scenes details and discuss the design of games for the online escape room audience.

And if you are interested in the mentioned event at the end of the video, check out Mystery at the Museum with Steve Backshall!

126 - DASH: Different Area, Same Hunt with Debbie Goldstein

In our 126th episode, Manpans and Errol have a fun time chatting to the founder of DASH, Debbie Goldstein! Listen in to learn all the secrets of starting a puzzle hunt that occurs in multiple cities!

03 - Designer Spotlight Video: Scarlet Envelope

Hello! We released two videos this week! Our latest designer spotlight is with Scarlet Envelope, and we chat to Lisa Levina & Anna Lysova about their subscription take home puzzle game!

We had a lot of fun with Lisa and Anna, because they’re hilarious!

Learn also about Clue Cards, their holiday themed Postcard and Greeting card series which has reached it’s funding goal on Kickstarter!

02 - Designer Spotlight Video: An Escape Room in 18 Cards

Allo, enthusiasts! Here’s our second video as we focus on designers.

Today, we have Jonathan Chaffer who has create an escape room in only 18 cards with Grand Gamers Guild. The game is called The Kringle Caper and is only available on the Grand Gamers Guild website.

Listen in as we talk to Jonathan and Marc Specter (of Grand Gamers Guild) about the challenges of making an escape room card game with only a few cards.

125 - A Critical Look at Online Escape Rooms

Manda and Errol are joined by Lee Ballan, designer of The Pyramid, and they talk about all the things they like and don’t like about online escape rooms. If we were going to do a click-baity title, we would have named this “EVERYTHING WRONG WITH ONLINE ESCAPE ROOMS", but then we would have needed to put it in list form with motion graphics, and we didn’t have time for that! :D

01 - Designer Spotlight Video: Nick Moran of "Spectre & Vox"

We have something new we’re starting, enthusiasts! We are going to do youtube Designer Spotlights focusing on specific games!

Our first one is with Nick Moran of Spectre & Vox. Their kickstarter was funded in three hours, and they are well into their stretch goals!

If you want to hear the ins and outs about this game, tune in! Or tube in. I have no idea what young people say when they want others to watch their youtube vids.

124 - Survivor and Escape Rooms with Peih-Gee Law

In our latest episode, Manpans and Errol chat to Peih-Gee Law about Survivor (which Errol knows nothing about) and escape rooms (which Errol knows too much about.)

Peih-Gee Law is most well known for being a fan favourite contestant on the reality show Survivor, where she played first in Survivor China in 2007, and then again in a returning All Star season Survivor Second Chance. She calls Survivor “the greatest immersive game in the world”.In her professional life as a private jeweler, Peih-Gee has extensive experience with organizing and exhibiting at trade shows, as well as hosting, producing and facilitating large corporate events.She has also recently launched PeihGeePlays– an online community where she hosts live stream Survivor Game Nights on Twitch featuring different reality stars as well as organizes events and games for fans in the community. Peih-Gee is an ardent fan of escape rooms and immersive entertainment. She writes reviews for Room Escape Artist’s Hivemind collective and loves being an ambassador for the escape room community.

Social media is @peihgee on Instagram and Twitter.

123 - Escape Jams with Jeb Havens

Manpans and Errol talk to Jeb Havens (jebhavensgames@gmail.com) about Room Escape Jams! Listen in to learn about creating an escape room in a day.

Also, if you’d like to watch us talk, we’re also on youtube with very minimal production effort:

Jeb Havens is a game & interactive designer living in Los Angeles. He has been professionally designing games and software since 2003, working for companies such as Google, Electronic Arts, and YouTube. He has worked across a wide range of platforms, including mobile phones, gaming consoles, and Facebook. And he has designed games for big brands such as Disney, Marvel, Samantha Bee, SimCity, DoorDash, Spore, and Playboy.

Jeb has over 10 years of experience leading game design workshops for conferences and private companies, for groups as large as 200 participants, and he has given a variety of lectures about game design and cognitive science.

Jeb is also a multi-award-winning board game designer, a professionally-published puzzle writer, an international recording artist, and an Off-Broadway playwright. He has a love of travel and other cultures, and has backpacked through 50 different countries around the world.

Talked about in this episode:

This Sunday, October 19th, Spooky Virtual Escape Jam Event Link:
https://roomescapeartist.com/virtual-escape-jam/

Escape Jam Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2043198462627016/

Jeb Haven Games:
www.jebhavensgames.com

Jeb Haven’s Newest Crowd-Funded Party Game:
www.YouDontKnowMyLife.com

122 - The World of ARGs with Michael Andersen

Today’s podcast is all about ARGs! The Divas talk with Michael Andersen of ARGn.com.

A great intro to the world of Alternate Reality Gaming.

Room Escape Divas Play - Escape the Eldritch Garden

Allo, everyone! This isn’t a podcast, but a video of us playing an audio escape game.

The game itself was first featured on Escape This Podcast, and Jen McTeague, the creator of the game, offered to run it for us!

Listen in as we don't do a good job solving her game.

121 - Cultural Bias in Escape Rooms

Huzzah! Manda and Errol interview Shannon McDowell, a researcher at the Brantford Games Network Lab, about her latest paper on Cultural Bias in Escape Rooms.

Furthermore, she is collecting more data from enthusiasts now about online games! If you are reading this now and have done a lot of online escape rooms, fill out the survey!

And in our latest effort to make our podcasts also visual, here is the above podcast on YouTube!

120 - RECON: Running an Online Escape Room Conference on Discord

Manda and Errol talk to Theresa Piazza about the Escape Room conference Reality Escape Con.

They discuss being an exhibitor and a sponsor, as well as the challenges of pivoting a conference to only being online in Discord.

And if you are interested, you can also watch this online! Huzzah!

119 - The ASPMC: An Interview with Kellian Pletcher

All of the Divas are present as we interview Kellian Pletcher of Green Door Labs about her latest successfully funded Kickstarter that was just made available: The American Society for the Protection of Magical Creatures.

Listen in as we talk about puzzle hunts, world building, Club Drosselmeyer, and designing online puzzle games.

And for the first time, we have our podcast on YouTube! We were all in different places, so we did a Zoom recording of everyone!

118 - Chicagoland Survey of Escape Room Players

Manda and Errol talk to Vincent Rubino of Fox in a Box - Chicago and Maren Rosenberg of Escape Artistry about their Chicagoland Escape Room survey and reopening escape rooms in a pandemic.

For more information about escape rooms and the pandemic, please refer to this informative article from Room Escape Artist, Approaches for Reopening Escape Rooms in a Pandemic.

117 - Scooby-Doo!™: Escape from the Haunted Mansion - An interview with Sen-Foong Lim and Jay Cormier

Oh boy, that’s a long title. Manda and Errol talk to Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim about the newest escape room board game, Scooby-Doo!™: Escape from the Haunted Mansion. In this episode, they talk about design decisions, challenges, and upcoming games with the Coded Chronicles™ series from The OP.

116 - A Casual Chat with Nick Moran about Escape Rooms

Manda and Errol get together again to talk to Nick Moran, best known for creating Time Run and the BBC’s Sherlock Escape Room The Game Is Now. There is a lot of talk about escape rooms, but probably more talk about how we have no analytics.

115 - Manpans Rants About Online Escape Rooms

In this short episode, Manpans has rants! So she rants, and the rest of the Divas interrupt her. It was amazing!

114 - Game Design with PostCurious

Manda and Errol talk with Rita Orlov of Post Curious about her latest Kickstarter The Emerald Flame! Listen in as we chat about game design, take home games, narrative puzzle adventures, and other topics Errol tangents on.