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About Mairi

Mairi "Spaceship" Nolan is a UK based Game Designer specialising in puzzle design for escape rooms, immersive events, video games, tabletop games, and murder mysteries.

Additionally she is an advocate and ambassador for the UK escape room industry, as the Editor in Chief of Escape Industry News, and The Escape Roomer, the owner of Escape Industry Jobs, and a volunteer at Enigmarch.

Mairi has been a guest on podcasts, her work has been featured in a number of publications such as BBC News, New York Times,, Escape Buzz and The Guardian.

Why Spaceship?

Jealous of her peers for all having middle names, at the age of 7 Mairi declared she wanted a middle name and chose "Spaceship". To this day the middle name can be found on all official school and university documentation. The love for sci-fi persists.

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Escape Industry Work

Escape Industry News​

Editor in Chief 2021 - present

The Escape Roomer

Editor in Chief 2019 - present

Escape Industry Jobs​

Founder 2023 - present

Enigmarch

Volunteer 2023 - present​

Buzzshot

Copywriter 2020 - present

Telescape

Copywriter 2020 - present

Cubic Escape

Copywriter 2018

Game Design Work

Mysterious Package Company

Game Designer 2023 - present

Curious Correspondence

Game Designer 2021 - 2023

Wizards of the Coast

Game Designer 2022

Professor Puzzle

Game Designer 2022

Eleven Puzzles

Lead Game Designer 2021 - Present

GLITCHERS

Game Designer 2021 - 2022

Escape Hunt

Game Designer 2019 - 2021

Access Escape

Game Designer 2019

Locked City

Game Designer 2018-2019

A Murder of Crows

Game Director 2017-2020

Other Bragging Rights

  • I've played ~400 escape rooms

  • My team placed 33rd in the world in the Escape Room Champsionship 2022

  • Women in Games Ambassador from 2019-21

  • If you added all the Kickstarter games I've worked on together they've raised around $3m.

  • Shane from Buzzfeed Unsolved / Watcher said he liked one of my games, once.

  • There is literally no limit to the amount of tea I can consume in one day.​

  • I can keep most of my houseplants alive for at least 3 months.

Contact

Want to talk puzzles? Send memes, morse code, and cryptic ARG springboards to 👉

mairinolan (at) gmail.com

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