Unlocking the Potential of Puzzle-based Learning: Designing escape rooms and games for the classroom

About Liz CableScott Nicholson

Dr. Scott Nicholson is a professor in the Game Design and Development program at Wilfrid Laurier Unviersity in Brantford Ontario Canada.  He has been designing live-action games for over 30 years and was the first scholar to explore escape rooms at an international level.  He led a team of students to create the escape rooms for the 2017 and 2019 Red Bull Mind Gamers Escape Room World Championships and was the designer of the award-winning Breakout EDU puzzle box game Ballot Box Bumble.  He is a former librarian and library school professor and his passion is creating face-to-face games for learning in museums libraries classrooms and the home. Liz Cable is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Narratives and Transmedia Production at Leeds Trinity University UK and a PhD candidate researching Escape Games in Education. She founded The Adventurers Guild national live-action role-playing society was Editor of The Adventurer magazine and has run several massive multiplayer campaigns over 30 years. She has been designing commercial and educational escape games since 2015 and teaches educators to make immersive games for the classroom and beyond.