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Meet the Creators of ‘The Key of Dreams’, a brand new immersive experience in the UK

Mairi Mairi September 20, 2023

For fans of the weird, the wonderful, and the utterly immersive… Something exciting is coming in 2024. From the creators of The Locksmith’s Dream comes an announcement of a new experience: The Key of Dreams. We sat down with the two creators, Ivan and Laura, a super-team of designers and creators to find out just […]

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The Escape Room Enthusiast’s Guide to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Mairi Mairi September 2, 2023

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the biggest and (in my totally un-biased opinion) the best Fringe Festivals in the world. It takes place every year in August, lasts the whole month, and showcases somewhere in the region of 3,800 acts consisting of 50,000 performers. Assuming every act lasts around an hour, it’d take you 159 […]Read More

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6 Puzzle Game Jams in 2 Months with Astra (&

Mairi Mairi September 2, 2023

(This article was originally posted in full on Medium, but I decided to cross-post here as well, in case anyone is here looking for game design advice!) I am not a video game developer… Okay, okay. That’s not quite true. I’m a puzzle game designer. I’ve worked on physical escape rooms, a bunch of tabletop […]Read More

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Guest Post by Kevin Kalishoek of Live Escape: 6 Important

Kevin Kalishoek Kevin Kalishoek July 11, 2023

Escape rooms have taken the world by storm, captivating people with their immersive environments, challenging puzzles, and adrenaline-pumping experiences. Behind the scenes, the magic of escape rooms lies in their intricate design. But have you ever thought about how escape rooms are designed? Escape room design is an art form that combines storytelling, set design, […]Read More

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How to throw a Taskmaster themed party

Mairi Mairi June 18, 2023

So today’s blog post isn’t exactly escape room themed. Wait, what?! A non escape room post on The Escape Roomer? Scandalous! Unless of course you count the fact that many of the Taskmaster series have incredibly puzzle-y and escape room-like challenges in them? And that Alex Horne himself is an escape room enthusiast, which we […]Read More

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Happy 10th Birthday to clueQuest!

Mairi Mairi June 13, 2023

It’s time to break out the yellow-and-black confetti because one of our favourite escape rooms is turning 10 this June. As one of the longest running escape rooms in the UK, clueQuest has come a very long way since 2013. Founded by the Papp brothers – Gabor, Zoltan, Peter and Gergely, clueQuest has transformed from […]Read More

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Marketing Tabletop Puzzle Games on Kickstarter — A Case Study

Mairi Mairi May 29, 2023

This article was originally posted on Medium. Kickstarter is an incredibly powerful tool not just for securing the funds to create a game, but also for marketing the game itself. In this article, I look at the very specific niche of “tabletop puzzle games” and using case studies, go through what works well and what […]Read More

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30 Before 30? Writing an Escape Room Bucket List

Mairi Mairi May 20, 2023

Cast your mind back to 2021. Yep, a whole two years ago. I was halfway between 20 and 30 and probably feeling listless and directionless about live (oh, hello 20s) and decided to make myself an “escape room bucket list” for all the things I wanted to achieve before I turned 30. A lot can […]Read More

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The Escape Roomer Road Trip: The Best Escape Rooms in

Mairi Mairi May 12, 2023

Okay yes, so this is “The Escape Roomer” and yes, we almost exclusively review UK escape rooms. That is, barring the few awesome “play at home” ones which we invariably did play from the comfort of our homes here in the UK… But then sometimes you go on an ‘escape room road trip’ to another […]Read More

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The Escape Roomer is on The Infinite Escape Room Podcast!

Mairi Mairi April 9, 2023

Look mum, we’re on a podcast! We’re super excited to have been invited onto our favourite podcast, The Infinite Escape Room to take on the latest chapter in their (if the name weren’t a giveaway already) “infinite” escape room. On a sunny Thursday night, Mairi, Al & Ash got together with a cup of their […]Read More