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113 - Online Escape Room Taxonomy with Brett Kuehner

Apr 17, 2020
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Episode description

With all the online escape rooms available, a number of lists have been created to collate them all. However, soon there were a lot of lists to keep track of. So Manda and Errol talk to Brett Kuehner about the meta list of lists he compiled. You can find the list on his website:

That Guy With the Puzzles

With a meta list of online escape rooms and also escape room design links.

We also talk about the taxonomy developed by Dan Egnor to categorize the different types of online escape rooms.

Online Escape Room Taxonomy
  • In-person escape room - as we know them (however you define that)

  • Live remote escape room - tell a GM what to do, they play an escape room-like setup for you (eg. Ready Mayor One, YouEscape, Seven Dwarves)

  • Live simulated escape room - tell a GM what to do, they pretend they're playing an escape room-like setup and tell you what would happen (eg. Escape This Podcast)

  • Escape room-style video game - video game that emphasizes puzzles, collaboration, discovery, and other escape room like elements (eg. Tick Tock)

  • Escape room-style tabletop game - board/card/paper game that emphasizes puzzles, collaboration, discovery, etc. (eg. Unlock!, Exit)

  • Online puzzle hunt - puzzles hosted online, without other escape room trappings (eg. most of puzzlehuntcalendar.com)

  • Puzzle book - puzzles in a book, without other escape room trappings (eg. Journal 29)


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