Episodes
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148 - Farewell and Thanks
Farewell and Thanks Room Escape Divas Hello, friends. We have a somewhat sad announcement to make. This week will mark the final episode of the REDivas podcast. You may have noticed Mike, Ruby, and Errol haven’t been around the last year, as their lives have gotten busy. Although I have continued...
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147 - Escape IF with Scott Nicholson
EscapeIF with Scott Nicholson Room Escape Divas This week I am joined once again by the esteemed Doctor Scott Nicholson to talk about his latest project with mEducation Alliance, EscapeIF! It’s a storytelling game system designed to create games for low resource classrooms. See the links below to...
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146 - Book of Dreams with Lee Ballan
146 - Book of Dreams Room Escape Divas This week I discuss The Book of Dreams, an anthology puzzle book, headed up by Lee Ballan and including entries from an all star puzzle design team! As of this posting, you can still support their Indiegogo campaign, with all profits going to Doctors Without...
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145 - Adventuron w/Chris Ainsley
145 - Adventuron Room Escape Divas This week we get nostalgic about text adventures with Chris Ainsley, creator of Adventuron and a guest star appearance from Errol! If you are interested in creating text adventures, check out Adventuron’s site which also has info on an upcoming game jam!
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144 - Ciphers and Treasure Hunts with Mike Augustine
144 - Ciphers w/Mike Augustine Room Escape Divas This week I am joined by Mike “Auggie” Augustine to discuss the world of ciphers and many tangents on treasure hunts and ARGs! Much fun ensues.
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143 - Planning Your Escape with Laura E Hall
143 - Planning Your Escape with Laura E Hall Room Escape Divas This week I am joined by Laura E Hall! We discuss her book, Planning Your Escape, which both teaches the history of escape rooms (going alllllll the way back), and everything you need to know to become the ultimate enthusiast! We also...
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142 - Wild Optimists
142 - The Wild Optimists Room Escape Divas This week I am joined by the powerhouse that is The Wild Optimists! Ariel Rubin and Juliana Moreno Patel discuss their experience designing Time Drifters, a take home escape that can be played in separate households! Also discussed is their murder…
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141 - Year in Review with Reality Escape Pod
140 - Year in Review with Reality Escape Pod Room Escape Divasa I am joined this week by the brilliant David Spira and Peih Gee Law of Reality Escape Podcast to reflect on 2021 and go down as many tangents as possible. Hope your 2022 is full of escaping fun so far! Check out Reality Escape Pod...
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140 - Constructed Adventures
140- Constructed Adventures Room Escape Divas For the last episode of 2021, I am joined by Chris Waters, the creator of Constructed Adventures! We talk about his epic adventure creating business, the importance of community, and just how much metaphorical duck tape it takes to create a seemingly...
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139 - Props with Haley Moore
139 - Props with Haley Moore Room Escape Divas How can props help enhance an experience? What stories can they tell? And how awesome are animatronics? This week Haley Moore shares her passion for prop making! If you’d like to see some of the other amazing creations she has been involved in, check...
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138 - Mechanics with Next Level Escapes
138- Next level Room Escape Divas This week I am joined by Leanne Yong and Aaron Hooper of Next Level Escapes to discuss our non-escape room inspirations when creating designs! There are…many tangents in this one.
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137 - Redesigning Your Game with Diorama's Ruud Kool
137 - Redesign with Ruud Kool Room Escape Divas Apologies for the delay! This week I talk with Ruud Kool of Diorama Games! We talk about the experience of translating and redesigning his first game, The Vandermist Dossier (originally the Boekanier Dossier), and how the design process is never…
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136 - VR with James Cobalt
136 - VR with James Cobalt Room Escape Divas This week Manda is joined by James Cobalt to discuss the wonders of VR and their impact on puzzle games and escape rooms. Manda might talk about Beatsaber too much. Follow James to keep up to date about his new escape room facility (yet another reason…
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135- Rita Orlov and Non-linear Game Design
135- Rita Orlov & Nonlinear Games Manda Whitney Download Manda is back and kicking off the REDiva season with the ever so talented Rita Orlov to talk about nonlinear game design and her upcoming Kickstarter for her latest project: Light in the Mist. Visit postcurious.com to keep up to date on the...
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134 - Forensic Accounting and Escape Rooms with Leah Wietholter
134 - Forensic Accounting and Escape Rooms with Leah Wietholter Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download Manpans and Errol talk to Leah Weitholter, a fraud investigator who made an escape room inspired game to help teach forensic accounting and fraud investigation! Errol has a...
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133 - Rants about Online Immersive Escape Rooms
133 - Rants about Online Immersive Escape Rooms Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Sorry, it’s been a long time since the last update! Manda and Errol are joined by Lee-Fay and rant about a particular immersive adventure. Totally living up to their diva nature.
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132 - REDivas Discuss Online Horror Escape Rooms
132 - REDivas Discuss Online Horror Escape Rooms Room Escape Divas Download Manda, Ruby, Mike, and Errol are back together! At least while the baby sleeps. We talk about how escape rooms can help prepare for parenting, horror rooms, and all the tangents in between!
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07 - Designer Spotlight Video: The Enigma Emporium
07 - Designer Spotlight: The Enigma Emporium Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download In this designer spotlight, we only have Errol because he left it until the last minute and no one else could make the time he booked! However he has a grand time chatting to Logan Giannini of...
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131 - Matthew Stein on Empathy-driven Puzzles
131 - Matthew Stein on Empathy-driven Puzzles Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download Manpans and Errol talk with professional puzzle designer Matthew Stein about empathy-driven puzzles and puzzle design in general. Huzzah! This is a pretty deep talk! Matthew Stein (he/him) is…
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06 - Designer Spotlight Video: Society of Curiosities
06 - Designer Spotlight: Society of Curiosities Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download Manda and Errol have a wonderful chat with Michelle and Yacine of Society of Curiosities! Listen in as they tell us about pivoting from an Escape Room business to an online mail-order puzzle...
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130 - Escape Rooms and Art with Tommy Honton
130 - Escape Rooms and Art with Tommy Honton Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download Manpans and Errol talk to Tommy Honton! Originally, it was going to focus on Stash House and his creations but then we started talking about art! So now that's the title!
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05 - Designer Spotlight Video: Miss Jezebel
05 - Designer Spotlight Video: Miss Jezebel Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download The Divas interview Brian Corbitt, who designed Miss Jezebel of 60out Escape Rooms. Miss Jezebel is rated as one of the top three online escape rooms by the 2020 TERPECAs, for good reason, and…
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129 - Room Escape Artist: Year End Reflections
129 - Room Escape Artist: Year End Reflections Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download The Divas chat with Lisa and David Spira about 2020 in escape rooms, and what's in store for Room Escape Artist in 2021! This was recorded in front of a live audience! Huzzah! And you will be...
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128 - The Infinite Escape Room Podcast!
128 - The Infinite Escape Room Podcast! Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download Now, before you listen to our podcast, you should check out The Infinite Escape Room Podcast which we reference all through the episode! We have a wonderful time with Mike and Ben. Escape the Cat...
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127 - Escape Rooms on Mobile
127 - Escape Rooms on Mobile Room Escape Divas Download In today's episode, we talk about escape games you can play on your phone with Tammy Dorn and Andrew Ow. They both work at the indie-game company Haiku Games and discuss their design philosphy when creating escape rooms for the mobile phone.
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126 - DASH: Different Area, Same Hunt with Debbie Goldstein
126 - DASH: Different Area, Same Hunt with Debbie Goldstein Michael Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir In our 126th episode, Manpans and Errol have a fun time chatting to the founder of DASH, Debbie Goldstein! Listen in to learn all the secrets of starting a puzzle hunt that occurs in...
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125 - A Critical Look at Online Escape Rooms
125 - A Critical Look at Online Escape Rooms Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download Manda and Errol are joined by Lee Ballan, designer of The Pyramid, and they talk about all the things they like and don’t like about online escape rooms. If we were going to do a click-baity...
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124 - Survivor and Escape Rooms with Peih-Gee Law
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…
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123 - Escape Jams with Jeb Havens
123 - Escape Jams with Jeb Havens Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download Manpans and Errol talk to Jeb Havens ([email protected]) 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…
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122 - The World of ARGs with Michael Andersen
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.
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121 - Cultural Bias in Escape Rooms
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…
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120 - RECON: Running an Online Escape Room Conference on Discord
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...
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119 - The ASPMC: An Interview with Kellian Pletcher
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...
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118 - Chicagoland Survey of Escape Room Players
118 - Chicagoland Survey of Escape Room Players Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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.…
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117 - Scooby-Doo!™: Escape from the Haunted Mansion - An interview with Sen-Foong Lim and Jay Cormier
117 - Scooby-Doo!™: Escape from the Haunted Mansion - An interview with Sen-Foong Lim and Jay Cormier Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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…
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116 - A Casual Chat with Nick Moran about Escape Rooms
116 - A Casual Chat with Nick Moran about Escape Rooms Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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…
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115 - Manpans Rants About Online Escape Rooms
115 - Manpans Rants About Online Escape Rooms Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download In this short episode, Manpans has rants! So she rants, and the rest of the Divas interrupt her. It was amazing!
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114 - Game Design with PostCurious
Game Design with PostCurious Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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...
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113 - Online Escape Room Taxonomy with Brett Kuehner
113 - Taxonomy of Online Escape Rooms with Brett Kuehner Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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…
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112 - The Isolation Episode with Room Escape Artist
112 - The Isolation Episode with Room Escape Artist Room Escape Divas Download Manda and Errol meet up with Lisa and David Spira Room Escape Artist who are in self-isolation after returning from Europe.
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111 - Discussing Escape Room Puzzle Tropes
111 - Discussing Escape Room Puzzle Tropes Room Escape Divas Download 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?
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110 - Cryptex Hunt 2020: Behind the Scenes
110 - Cryptex Hunt 2020: Behind the Scenes Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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…
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109 - Would This Mechanic Work in an Escape Room?
109 - Would This Mechanic Work in an Escape Room? Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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...
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108 - 2019 Escape Room Enthusiast Survey with Lee-Fay Low
108 - 2019 Escape Room Enthusiast Survey with Lee-Fay Low Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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…
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107 - Top Escape Rooms with Rich Bragg
107 - Top Escape Rooms with Rich Bragg Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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…
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106 - Room Escape Artist and the Escape Room Industry
106 - Room Escape Artist and the Escape Room Industry Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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…
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105 - The Privilege of Escape with Risa Puno
105 - The Privilege of Escape with Risa Puno Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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...
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104 - Club Drosselmeyer, Four Years Later!
104 - Club Drosselmeyer, Four Years Later! Room Escape Divas 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!
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103 - Escape Room Marketing
103 - Escape Room Marketing Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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...
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102 - Meeting with Escape This Podcast
102 - Meeting with Escape This Podcast Mike Yuan, Ruby Yuan, Manda Whitney, Errol Elumir Download 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!…
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