In April 2020, with the world newly shut down and the physical locations of Trapped Puzzle Rooms temporarily closed, I designed our first Audio Escape Adventure: an online narrator-driven experience that blended escape rooms and one-shot roleplaying sessions together. Over the next 11 months, I released 8 experiences with Trapped Puzzle Rooms, which were played by tens of thousands of people around the world. They were a much needed escape, allowing friends who were unable to see each other in person get together and experience a story told in a fantastical environment.

These games focused heavily on exploring the strengths of these games - escape room-style experiences that weren’t restricted by the limitations of space or physics and capitalized on the imagination of its players. As we released subsequent experiences, I learned how to best utilize verbal narration and this imaginative medium to guide players through the world, giving them subtle clues and nudges in the right direction.

I am currently the resident designer of the Reality Escape Convention (RECON), designing and running Escape from Escape Island in 2021, The Shop of Theseus in 2023, and B.L.O.T. in 2025. During a playtest with the RECON committee for Escape from Escape Island, one of the participants gleefully said “this was easily the best money we’ve ever spent.”