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.
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
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I've played ~400 escape rooms
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My team placed 33rd in the world in the Escape Room Champsionship 2022
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Women in Games Ambassador from 2019-21
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If you added all the Kickstarter games I've worked on together they've raised around $3m.
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Shane from Buzzfeed Unsolved / Watcher said he liked one of my games, once.
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There is literally no limit to the amount of tea I can consume in one day.
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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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