Horror in Escape Rooms? - At the Brush, Nose and Bone
The Witching Hour is upon us in this Halloween special, it's time to pull up a rickety, mouldy stool at the near-empty pub, the Brush, Nose and Bone. In this episode, we're joined by a master of horror, Keith Dozois of USB Escape to discuss all things horror in escape rooms. How does horror affect puzzles? What are our best (and worst) experiences with horror? And how do you make horror good in an escape room?
As always, here are your recommendations for this month.
Jamie - Ice Nine Kills (band), a metalcore whose recent output has been centred around iconic horror films, and was a big inspiration for Jamie's episode this arc.
Mairi - Strange Jigsaws (game by fleb), a short digital puzzle game about solving 50 or so rather strange jigsaws. The prequel (20 Small Mazes) is free, if you want to see what sort of thing you're getting yourself into.
Jon - Never Let Me Go (novel by Kazuo Ishiguro), a slow gentle book about a trio of young folks in the British countryside but they attend a very unusual school and are on an unusual life trajectory.
Keith - Scarlet Envelope for their fantastic puzzle games (yay), and Curios' Albrecht Manor Letters, an epistolary horror experience through writing letters. Two fantastic Canada-based game creators.
Hosts: Mairi Nolan, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs
Special Guest: Keith Dozois
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
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TLDR: The final episode in the VHS Nightmare arc has the four hosts chatting about all things horror game, and puzzle game design at a spooky pub.
The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms for one another. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island humour sprinkled over the top.
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VHS Nightmare - The Graveyard Smash
Safely returned from their doorless room, with a hairbrush in hand, the team are left with only one VHS tape, adorned with images of graves. It sends them to a London Garden Park, with a curious statue guarding the gate, it's amazing what they call Art these days...
Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders
Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan
Special Guest: Keith Dozois of USB Escape
Episode Art: Dom Jordan -Dom Jordan Illustration
Editor: Jon Saunders
All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom
TLDR: The third episode in the VHS Nightmare arc follows the team and special guest Keith Dozois in an escape room set in a London graveyard.
The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms for one another. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island humour sprinkled over the top.
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VHS Nightmare: The Thing in the TV
After missing their one-flight-a-day from the Australian desert, the gang decide to shelter for the night in an abandoned shack deep in the outback. Inside they find a VHS player, and three tapes.
Last week the team tried to play a VHS tape and were transported to a sinister sewer to face a laughing clown, this week they find themselves stood in a room with no windows or doors, lit only by the pale glow of a television showing static. Until it doesn't.
With 999 possible channels for the team to uncover, this won't be an easy task.
Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan
Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Jon Saunders
Special Guest: Keith Dozois of USB Escape
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jon Saunders
All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom
TLDR: The second episode in the VHS Nightmare arc follows the team and special guest Keith Dozois in a Ring inspired escape room.
The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms for one another. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island humour sprinkled over the top.
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VHS Nightmare: The Sobbing Shaft
After missing their one-flight-a-day from the Australian desert, the gang decide to shelter for the night in an abandoned shack deep in the outback. Inside they find a VHS player, and three tapes.
But this is no ordinary VHS player, as the moment the tape goes in the world shimmers in static and we find ourselves transported to... A sewer.
There's distant crying coming from the darkness and a creepy red balloon hovering in the air. But there's no time for clowning around when there's a puzzle to solve.
If you're playing along with the puzzle, check out this visual asset when Jon finds the compass.
Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs
Solvers: Mairi Nolan, Jon Saunders
Special Guest: Keith Dozois of USB Escape
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom
TLDR: The first episode in the VHS Nightmare arc follows the team and special guest Keith Dozois in a maze-like sewer system inspired by Stephen King's IT.
The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms for one another. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island humour sprinkled over the top.
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Puzzle Creators React: Inside No 9: CTRL, ALT, ESC
In this new series, we put our professional puzzle design experience to good use and look at escape rooms in film and TV as if they were real escape rooms.
In this podcast we're looking at the escape room episode of Inside No. 9, "CTRL ALT ESCAPE". Follow Mairi, Jamie, and special guest Alex Hylands-White as they put the room through its paces and discuss what improvements they'd make to make it a better escape room.
Alex brings a wealth of escape room experience through his work as a designer at Clockwork Dog and Marketing Director at COGS. COGS is a show control software and hardware platform used to create and manage interactive live experiences like escape rooms, haunted houses, and immersive theater. It allows operators to easily design automated puzzles, control effects such as lights and sounds, and manage hardware like sensors and locks through a user-friendly interface, all without requiring complex programming skills.
Hosts: Mairi Nolan, Jamie Gibbs
Special Guest: Alex Hylands-White, Marketing Director of Clockwork Dog and COGS
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom
The escape room podcast where a bunch of friends make and solve homemade audio escape rooms for each other. One part escape room, one part role-playing game, a sprinkle of point-and-click adventure, and a whole lot of laughs. New episodes every Sunday!
Hosted by Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs and Mairi Nolan.
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