The Game Design Round Table

#224 Scott Nicholson Talks Escape Rooms

Oct 15, 2019 · 1 hr 4 min · Season 1 · Episode 224 · 46.2 MB
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Dirk and David discuss escape room design with Scott Nicholson, a game designer and professor who has studied escape rooms extensively. Scott talks about the predecessors to escape rooms, the thematic threat of ludonarrative dissonance, and the importance of asking "why?" with every component of a game's design.