“I have so many burning questions.”

Our podcast, Reality Escape Pod, isn’t exactly short-form content. Most episodes clock in at over fifty minutes, and yet, I always feel like I didn’t get enough time with the guest. “But I’ve still got some burning questions!” I think to myself. Or maybe I have follow up questions, but I didn’t want to interrupt the flow of conversation.

Luckily, we have our Bonus Aftershow. I love this format because David and I are able to have more casual conversations with our guests, rather than the more formal interview on Reality Escape Pod. The Bonus Show chats run the gamut from in-depth design discussions, to workshopping business or game ideas, to just trading battle stories of escape rooms gone awry.

In the Best of Bonus, I picked some of my favorite moments from our Season 9 Bonus Aftershow episodes. I really loved hearing more stories from James Douberly about the MIT Mystery Hunt, and listening to Neil Patrick Harris talk about magic and escape rooms. Jon and Ryan from The Great Gotham Challenge kept talking about “risky puzzles” and I finally had the chance to ask them about this concept. We also got the definitive answer from Steven Medway, creator of Blood on the Clocktower, on whether townsfolk (Team Good) should be executing every day in the game.

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Topics Discussed in this Episode

• 01: 22 E1 MIT Mystery Hunt: Infinite Corridor
• 07:52 E2 NPH: Magic and Escape Rooms
• 13:53 E3 The Dome: “Story Feeling”
• 19:49 Sponsor Break: PG’s Playhouse
• 20:15  E4 Great Gotham Challenge: Risky Endeavors
• 26:23 E5 MyssTic Escape Room: Poland Fire
• 33:59 E6 Blood on the Clocktower: Design Evolution & Strategy
• 39:17 Sponsor Break: Buzzshot and Cogs by Clockwork Dog
• 39:17 E7 Omescape: Licensing Escape Rooms
• 45:58 E9 Escape Room Early Years: Tropes and Scent Puzzles
• 52:41 E10 LabEscape: Games for Learning
• 57:02 E11 100th Episode: The Editing Process
• 01:04:27 E12 LockHill: Creating Scares

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