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Latest Episodes:

01 - Designer Spotlight Video: Nick Moran of "Spectre & Vox" Nov 06, 2020

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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 ofSpectre & 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 Oct 30, 2020

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124 - Survivor and Escape Rooms with Peih-Gee Law Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download

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 Oct 16, 2020

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123 - Escape Jams with Jeb Havens Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download

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 Oct 02, 2020

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122 - The World of ARGs with Michael Andersen Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download

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 Oct 02, 2020

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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 Sep 04, 2020

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121 - Cultural Bias in Escape Rooms Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download

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 Aug 07, 2020

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120 - RECON: Running an Online Escape Room Conference on Discord Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download

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 Jul 24, 2020

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119 - The ASPMC: An Interview with Kellian Pletcher Room Escape Divas Download

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!