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Jamie Gibbs

@armchairescapist.com.bsky.social

🧩Escape room puzzle designer πŸŽ™οΈ Co-producer of @infiniteescaperoom.bsky.social πŸ”‘ #escaperooms | 🎲 #boardgames | 🍯 #mead he/him https://www.armchairescapist.com https://www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com

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Hello, Bluesky! If you love thinking, talking, and/or writing about game design, check out our starter pack! go.bsky.app/AsBK784 We're an organization committed to tackling the toughest problems in games and sharing what we learn with the world!

25.10.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 9

Finally verified my handle for my domain!

@armchairescapist.com all the way, baby!

25.10.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wednesday Murder Club Simplest offer ever. Buy anything on our site today (October 22) and get a Halloween mystery β€œMurder Book” free with your order. No minimums. No coupon…

Field Notes x Mystery League are offering a free murder mystery booklet with all orders placed today! -mja

22.10.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Greetings boils and ghouls!

We're continuing with our horror-inspired rooms in the countdown to Halloween with Mairi's homage to The Ring in what we all agreed was one of the all-time greatest puzzles we've played on this podcast.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

#escaperooms #podcast

20.10.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"You've lost Gen Z already, Jon!"

The gang offers a short explanation about the main MacGuffin of this year's Halloween episodes - VHS tapes.

Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all good podcast platforms (and probably some of the bad ones, we get about).

#halloween #podcast #escaperooms

16.10.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha, that’d be bloody marvellous. Though I think I’ve got my sights set on Nick Mohammed - man’s a Puzzle King 😁

12.10.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What do the gang do as soon as the room starts?

They only go and bloody split up!

I ended up tracking their movements using Lego pieces on a battle map, D&D style.

It was a lot of fun to run this one

12.10.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interstellar AdventuresΒ is a co-opΒ puzzle adventure. Entirely offline, for 2–4 players.

Back now on Kickstarter 🚨

πŸ”—Β www.kickstarter.com/projects/mintynoodles/interstellar-adventures?ref=ar2lu2

#selfpromosaturday #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #escaperoomgame #puzzleadventure #tabletopescapegame

11.10.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Watching ep. 1 of #celebritytraitors and seeing Jonathan Ross immediately start looking for clues and declaring β€œI’ve done loads of escape rooms”.

YES MAH BOI, REPRESENT!

11.10.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Escape Rooms Newport Returns Newport's original Escape Room experience returns to a new and improved city centre location with two brand-new rooms

I just backed The Escape Rooms Newport Returns on Kickstarter - it's great to see Newport Escape Rooms coming back (and I'm never one to say no to a pin badge..) www.kickstarter.com/projects/esc...

10.10.2025 07:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks and same to you!

Turns out I’d duplicated a music clip and it had embedded itself into my VO track. No idea how it happened, but I suspect it was something to do with my editing past midnight πŸ˜…

05.10.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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"The most accurate depiction of an escape room in British media".

In this week's Puzzle Creator's React we're looking at the episode CTRL, ALT, ESC from Inside No. 9 by Reece Shearsmith and @sjpemberton.bsky.social

Listen now wherever else you get your podcasts.
linktr.ee/theinfinitee...

05.10.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Publish podcast episode.

Go out for the day.

Realise there's 3 minutes of random music accidentally slotted into a conversation that dominates the audio.

It's gonna be that kind of Sunday .

#podcasteditorproblems

05.10.2025 11:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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This was the moment @mairispaceship.com as well as Dani and Bill from @escapethispodcast.bsky.social got a surprise voice cameo from top puzzle maestro @nphstuff.bsky.social (thanks again Neil!)

Listen to the full episode of wherever you get your podcasts.
linktr.ee/theinfinitee...

20.08.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Loved recording this episode. Always fun when we get chance to improv!

10.08.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
in a scorched wasteland beneath an orange sky, on a motorbike with a ramskull strapped to the handlebars, a road warrior sits, her head concealed by a spiked helmet and gas mask. over one shoulder she holds a large bazooka. she is twisted in the saddle to look behind her through a scope she holds in her other hand. she wears jeans and a cutoff t shirt with the phrase "BABIES ATE MY DINGO" on the front.

in a scorched wasteland beneath an orange sky, on a motorbike with a ramskull strapped to the handlebars, a road warrior sits, her head concealed by a spiked helmet and gas mask. over one shoulder she holds a large bazooka. she is twisted in the saddle to look behind her through a scope she holds in her other hand. she wears jeans and a cutoff t shirt with the phrase "BABIES ATE MY DINGO" on the front.

babies ate my dingo

#postapocalyptic #scifiart #art

05.08.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 807    πŸ” 141    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3
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In the thrilling conclusion to our Ice Cream Wars arc, the gang head to the Bournemouth Beachfront in search of a set of ice cream van keys. πŸ”‘

But things are a little more Pompeii than they'd bargained for... πŸ”₯

Check out 'The Burnt Beach' wherever you get your podcasts

πŸ‘‰ linktr.ee/theinfinitee...

27.07.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Puzzles are my love language

24.07.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, that escalated

17.07.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My favourite response to any Canon complaints:

17.07.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love these discussion episodes!

06.07.2025 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I highly recommend a hammock to complement the book

05.07.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why I Love Enamel Pins As Escape RoomΒ Swag How to do escape room pins right.

Why I Love Enamel Pins As Escape RoomΒ Swag

How to do escape room pins right.

04.07.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a puzzle designer, I 100% agree with this.

As a fairly lazy procrastinator with imposter syndrome, I 500% agree with this.

04.07.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Infinite Escape Room Games Podcast Β· Updated weekly Β· 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 sprinkl...

Happy 4th July to all our American friends!

The USA is 249 years old. Coincidentally, The Infinite Escape Room is ranked #249 in the US Apple podcast charts!

Wanna help us climb those ranks a little? Throw us a rating on Apple Podcasts, we'll love you forever

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

04.07.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚽 The root of ultimate power lies ... in the toilet

Join us and our special guests, Marcus and Nathan from the Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum podcast as we finish the ritual to make the sun come up.

Check it out wherever you get your podcasts (or linktr.ee/theinfinitee... ).

29.06.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Praise the sun!

20.06.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is my jam! Thanks for the recommend.

The closest I'll get this year I think will be doing some kind of dress up while playing fancy D&D in Fonlon Castle later this year 😁

16.06.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Word dungeon looks fascinating! Would love to give that a whirl!

16.06.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The UK needs Ren Faires. Not a half-arsed historical themed market - I want a full day or two of semi-larping, whimsy and frolicking.

We have the castles already.

16.06.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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