Category: Patreon

If you weren’t looking for it, you might have missed a detail about these recent reviews:

• Lost in a Jigsaw: The Diagonal Maze Puzzle
• Expedition Escapes’ The List
• Captured LV Allentown’s Murder of 89
• Gnome & Raven’s Magic Lamp
• Puzzle Room Pittsburgh’s The Study

David and I didn’t write them.

Some of the REA Hivemind writers have started reviewing in-person escape rooms, and in one case, a tabletop product.

With more reviewers, Room Escape Artist can share more voices, and cover more experiences, across more of the US, than we’ve ever been able to do before.

For me, this is also a fun new editorial challenge. Luckily, these folks are a talented bunch of writers and we’ve had the benefit of a year+ to collaborate and train with them. (Sometimes that meant training David and me to work with new folks.)

New Reviewers

All of these writers have their own bylined reviews publishing in July and/or August.

Listed in order of appearance:

• Fro
• Theresa Piazza
• Matthew Stein
• Kate Wastl
• Theresa W
• Sarah Mendez
• Andrew Reynolds

Additionally, Sarah Willson continues to review from Los Angeles, and Steve Ewing is currently editor for the Reality Escape Pod.

Non-Review Pieces

This month we also published Next Steps for Online Avatar Games by Darren Miller (new contributor) and Defining “Premium Escape Rooms” & Why It Matters by Richard Burns (who started writing for REA a little over a year ago.)

Additionally, all the Reality Escape Pod Show Notes are written by co-host Peih-Gee Law.

Early Access

Matthew and Theresa W had a wonderful time at Magic Lamp… so much so that we shared Matthew’s review with our Patreon backers before it published.

Patreon backers, you can expect more early access reviews in the future from places David and I haven’t even been!

Thank You!

Thank you for supporting us, and the entire Room Escape Artist team. You make this growth possible.

To those of you reading who have the means, we hope you’ll consider joining this wonderful group of supporters. 

Support Room Escape Artist’s Mission

There are lots of ways to support Room Escape Artist, like buying from Amazon or Etsy after clicking into the links included in this post or backing us on Patreon.

The money that we make from these helps us to grow the site and continue to add more value to the community that we love so much.

For more than 7 years, our community has helped us maintain our escape room map and directory. With all of the flux of recent months, this has been all the more critical.

There has been no shortage of closures, but there are also new escape room companies opening. We truly appreciate everyone who regularly writes to us with updates.

This is especially true of our Patreon community. Together, you submit so many directory updates, in addition to supporting us financially. It’s because of you that so many regions of the country are updated regularly. Thank you!

Submit Updates

If you want to help keep your region up to date, please take a look at our directory, and check your local area for:

• Newly opened facilities
• Permanently closed facilities
• Outdated information (changed URL, changed name, moved location)

Please contact us with any updates!

Thank you!

To those of you reading who have the means, we hope you’ll consider joining this wonderful group of supporters. Just click here!

Support Room Escape Artist’s Mission

There are lots of ways to support Room Escape Artist, like buying from Amazon or Etsy after clicking into the links included in this post or backing us on Patreon.

The money that we make from these helps us to grow the site and continue to add more value to the community that we love so much.

A couple of weeks ago, Peih-Gee and I had the honor of interviewing the first guest for REPOD Season 2… a chap named Neil Patrick Harris. He seemed like a talented individual. I’d keep an eye on his career… I think he’s going places.

In less than two weeks we will debut our second season with NPH, the creator of Box One. This extended REPOD episode explores his love of immersive theater, escape rooms, magic, and of course, the tabletop puzzle game he released last year. If you haven’t played it yet, you ought to before listening.

We cannot wait to share this episode and the rest of the upcoming season with you.

A Few Thoughts

This is as real as it is surreal. The day that we released the REPOD Season 1 finale, I found this comment on our Instagram:

We are so appreciative that he took a large chuck of time out of his day to talk with us. Just listening and leaving this comment was enough.

We have been fortunate to be a part of the escape room and immersive gaming community. So many people do so much to support us and our work, from the Hivemind and RECON teams, to our amazing Patreon community.

It takes a lot of support in many different forms to keep this giant experiment on the rails. From the people who consume the content and leave comments to the folks that help us tangibly and financially… thank you.

Thank You, Patreons!

To those of you reading who have the means, we hope you’ll consider joining this wonderful group of supporters. Just click here!

Support Room Escape Artist’s Mission

There are lots of ways to support Room Escape Artist, like buying from Amazon or Etsy after clicking into the links included in this post or backing us on Patreon.

The money that we make from these helps us to grow the site and continue to add more value to the community that we love so much.

It has been a lot of week.

Earlier this week we concluded season 1 of The Reality Escape Pod.

We could not have done this without the energy and support we feel from our Patreon backers. We’ve especially enjoyed your reactions in our “secret” Patreon discord channel, and the thoughtful conversations we’ve shared there. The influence that this channel has on our work was profoundly felt in the final episode.

We especially want to extend a warm welcome to the many folks who’ve joined our Patreon during season 1!

Podcast Reviews

In the season finale, David and Peih-Gee read a few of their favorite reviews. If you’ve enjoyed The Reality Escape Pod this season, please take a minute or two to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. This will go a long way to helping REPOD grow.

Surprise Perks

This week our Patreon backers got a special perk: early access to RECON ’21 Global tickets!

We’re thrilled by the response to RECON thus far. Thank you, Patreon backers, for getting the ball rolling with your excitement for RECON.

We invite everyone – industry professionals and players – to join us digitally at RECON this August!

Spoilers Club

The Spoilers Club is our newest (non-surprise) Patreon perk.

This month’s episode is focused on Isolation, created by Thin Reality Experiences for Escape Room Melbourne. David and Peih-Gee’s conversation about this game was published last night and we look forward to chatting more about this one.

With the Spoilers Club, we’re experimenting with a new form of content, one that the industry has generally not embraced. Each time we record a conversation in this format, it comes with a new set of challenges. This month we explore what happens when the game doesn’t play out the way it normally does. It’s makes for an interesting conversation.

In May, the Spoilers Club will chat about Escape from the Science Lab of Shifting Rules by SCRAP.

Thank You!

To those of you reading who have the means, we hope you’ll considering joining this wonderful group of supporters. Just click here!

Support Room Escape Artist’s Mission

There are lots of ways to support Room Escape Artist, like buying from Amazon or Etsy after clicking into the links included in this post or backing us on Patreon.

The money that we make from these helps us to grow the site and continue to add more value to the community that we love so much.