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S1E1: Trailblazing Game Designer Elan Lee (Exploding Kittens)

S1E1: Trailblazing Game Designer Elan Lee (Exploding Kittens)

FromReality Escape Pod - Escape Rooms & Immersive Games


S1E1: Trailblazing Game Designer Elan Lee (Exploding Kittens)

FromReality Escape Pod - Escape Rooms & Immersive Games

ratings:
Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Mar 1, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode, David and Peih-Gee chat with Elan Lee, one of the creators of the ARG (alternate reality game), and co-creator of Exploding Kittens - the most-backed campaign on Kickstarter at the time.
 
David manages to surprise Elan with interview questions that he’s never been asked before. Elan talks about creating the world’s first ARG and shares stories about what happens when you don’t properly define borders in escape rooms and immersive gaming. We also talk about escape rooms (of course) and Elan’s post-game ritual. We find out that Elan is a huge fan of Survivor and he tells us why he considers Jeff Probst to be one of the world’s best game designers.
 
Elan tells us that the best-designed games aren’t entertaining in and of themselves, but rather, that the best-designed games make the players entertaining.
Show Notes
Music: "The Legend of LoFi" by Dj Cutman & James Landino, provided by GameChops.
Released:
Mar 1, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Your hosts David Spira & Peih-Gee Law explore immersive gaming from all angles. Our guests have made awesome stuff: ARGs, puzzle hunts, tabletop games, and of course, escape rooms. Our aim is to bring together different segments of the gaming world and share ideas between them.