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!...
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!
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!...
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 ....
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 ....
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.
In this short episode, Manpans has rants! So she rants, and the rest of the Divas interrupt her. It was amazing!
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.
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...
Manda and Errol meet up with Lisa and David Spira Room Escape Artist who are in self-isolation after returning from Europe.
Ruby, Manda, and Mike get together and discuss 101 Best Escape Room Puzzle Ideas as published by Now Escape in 2016. It’s four years later, how do these puzzle ideas stack up now?
Mike learns about this year’s Cryptex Hunt! Manda and Mike question Errol about what it’s like writing a novel, writing a puzzle hunt, and dealing with server issues. Yes, people this year have to read a novel....
The Divas are all here! And in this episode, we discuss different mechanics and practices that may or may not work in a room. For example, saboteur mechanics, multiple paths, and other topics. Errol’s also pretty loopy.
Huzzah! We talk to Lee-Fay Low, an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney and an avid enthusiast of escape rooms, about the 2019 Escape Room Enthusiast Survey ! Listen in on her insights and what it was like putting together a survey translated into 14 different languages....
The 2019 Top Escape Rooms Project Enthusiasts’ Choice Awards was released! This year, 50 top English speaking escape rooms have been identified. In this episode, Manpans and Errol talk with Rich Bragg (co-founder of ClueKeeper and a Guiness Record holder for most escape rooms done in 24 hours ), to discuss TERPECA, or the “Braggs” as we like to call them....
Wow! We discussed so many things with Lisa and David Spira of Room Escape Artist . And we have a parody song by Benito Suppa of Durham Escape Rooms ! Huzzah! Something to get you into the holiday spirit. Listen in as we discuss so many things: 06:20 - A new convention, the Reality Escape Convention . 19: 50 - Escape rooms on TV, the Create the Escape pilot episode. 24:33 - On CBS Sunday Morning TV ! 27:22 - Being on the media and representing the escape room world 33:24 - Escape Rooms then and n...
The Divas are all here! Huzzah! And they had a lot of fun chatting to Risa Puno about her escape room art installation called The Privilege of Escape put on by Creative Time . Listen in as Risa tries really hard not to give spoilers to her game, and then tells them all. You have been warned. :D
We have Green Door Labs back! And four years later, we see how Club Drosselmeyer has grown! Listen in as Manda and Errol talk to Kellian and Brian Pletcher about their puzzle, theatrical, escape room, Nutcracker Suite, musical, dance show!
Manda and Errol are joined by Melissa Eapen of Improbable Escapes ! She did a talk at the Escape Summit called “How proper marketing can result in higher sales for your escape room”, and she brings some of that wisdom to this podcast! Also, you can hear about Manda’s dating life! Huzzah! About Melissa Eapen: Melissa Eapen’s professional and personal journey is a great example of what happens when you merge the power of creativity, the love for business and the thirst for adventure into one. An e...
Manda and Errol met with Bill and Dani of Escape This Podcast ! They are doing a tour of escape rooms in North America, and the divas were so happy to meet up with them in real life. And they sing! I’m so happy they sing! In this episode’s parody, we do the Confrontation song from Les Mis ! ERROL: So Bill, we're trapped We're tied up in these chains But over there I see the answer plain BILL: Before you say another word, Errol Before we try answers in vain again Listen to me! We should try to th...
Manda and Errol talk to Brett Kuehner and Justin Seventko who taught a high school class how to create and build an escape room. There should be more escape room classes in education! And also, here is the document of Escape Room Design Resources mentioned in the podcast. And we are bringing back parody songs! We’ll see how long that will hold up. This episode’s song was sung by Rachel Arpin, who also sang in the last episode! It’s a parody of Natalie Imbruglia’s song Torn . Worn Well, we could ...
Huzzah! We hit a 100 episodes! You can watch our shenanigans live , because the whole thing was streamed, and it includes a number of room escape parodies too! However, if you’d rather listen instead, the podcast has a higher quality audio! Enjoy, and thanks for joining us for such a long time! This pic was taken when we learned the “Anxious” had to answer all the puzzles. Ha ha ha! Love it....
Errol wrote another article called How Escape Rooms Do Difficulty Wrong . In this episode, the Divas discuss the article, the Escape Room Player Loop, and the upcoming 100th live episode where they want you to join in!
Manda is interviewing solo! And she got a chance to interview Noah Nelson, the founder and publisher of No Proscenium – the guide to everything immersive. No Proscenium is a newsletter, web site, and podcast of the immersive arts and entertainment industry. If you have any interest in the immersive industry, they are the people to go to!
The Divas meet up with Kyle Cacilhas who runs an escape room club at the University of Windsor, Ontario called Escape Artists . Kyle has taken his love for escape rooms and turned it into a club to raise funds for other organizations!
The Divas interview Barbara-Audrey Bergeron, who has acted in escape rooms and was also an actor in their events!
Manda and Errol head off to the west coast with Margaux and Leezet to do an escape room Marathon! They hit 16 escape rooms in about 3 and a half days. It was amazing! They also got a chance to talk to so many people! And Errol rants only two times out of 16 escapes! To read about our adventures, Manpans has a three part blog series on our adventures! Episode Outline 01:47 - Brian Hughes - Pandora's Locks and the Vancouver Escape Room Market 10:20 - Margaux & Elvina - Discuss Find & Seek ...
Errol and Manda meet up and do escape rooms with Randy Hum and Sarah Moliner-Roy of the escape room blog EscapeRumors.com ! Errol mentions someone forgot to press record in the first part. If it isn’t clear, it was him who wasted everyone’s time. Also, he talks a lot this episode. Good grief. Our after room shot at escapegames.ca !...
This is our third live podcast and we deliver it at the Escape Summit , an escape room conference in Canada! We talk about a number of things, but the first question we tackle is “When is an escape room good enough?”
Mike, Ruby, and Manpans leave Errol behind to explore the escape rooms of Louisiana! They also do a quick jaunt into Houston, Texas! In this two hour special, listen in as they talk to: 32:09 Megan Mouton of Clue Carré 34:23 Andrew Preble of Escape My Room 41:32 Dwayne Sanburn of 13th Gate 47:15 Noah Sylvester, an enthusiast who drove in from Florida just for 13th Gate. 51:09 Errol being prank called on the phone 56:11 Eugene Byon, a friend and newbie to escape rooms 1:29:15 Haley Cooper and Cam...
