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.
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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.
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Mairi has been a guest on multiple podcasts and her work has been featured in a number of publications such as BBC News, New York Times,, Escape Buzz and The Guardian.
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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.
Industry Work
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Escape Industry News​
Editor in Chief 2021 - present
The Escape Roomer
Editor in Chief 2019 - present
Cerebral Puzzle Showcase
Lead Organiser 2024 - present
Thinky Third Thursday
Contributor 2024 - present
Draknek & Friends
Studio Manager 2024 - present
Escape Room Championships
UK Ambassador 2023 - present
Buzzshot
Copywriter 2020 - present
Telescape
Copywriter 2020 - 2024
Enigmarch
Volunteer 2023 - 2024​
Sherlocked
Marketing & PR 2022
Escape Hunt
Marketing & PR 2018
Cubic Escape
Copywriter 2018
Game Design Work
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Enigmagram
Game Designer 2023 - 2024
Mysterious Package Company
Lead Game Designer 2022 - 2024
Curious Correspondence
Lead Game Designer 2021 - 2023
AR Trails
Lead Game Designer 2023
Wizards of the Coast (D&D+MTG)
Senior Game Designer 2022
Professor Puzzle
Game Designer 2022 - 2023
Eleven Puzzles
Lead Game Designer 2022 - 2023
GLITCHERS
Game Designer 2021 - 2022
Escape Hunt
Game Designer 2018 - 2021
Access Escape
Lead Game Designer 2019
Locked City
Game Designer 2017-2019
A Murder of Crows
Game Director 2017-2020
Freelance, Misc Projects
Game Designer 2015-2017
Other Cool Things
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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 Championship 2022
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A puzzle game design Mentor at Limit Break
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Women in Games Ambassador from 2019-24
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Recipient of the Astra Games Fellowship Grant in 2023
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Graduate of the Games Leadership Network Emerging Leaders programme
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If you added all the Kickstarter games I've worked on together they've raised around $2m (which is probably just slightly less than that I've spent backing KS games haha)
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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.​
Contact
Want to talk puzzles? Send memes, morse code, and cryptic ARG springboards to 👉
mairinolan (at) gmail.com
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