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that’s not wearing pants and nobody knows whether you are or not, you’re trying to get out of doing work because you don’t have any pants on, and ev- erybody else is trying to figure out who doesn’t have pants and who’s making them fail these assignments, so it’s very fast and very simple.”
Kendall explained that it can be difficult to produce a living as a tabletop designer as “you’re just kind of a drop in the sea of game designers.”
So how does Kendall come up with these independent and unique ideas?
“Secret Hitler, Werewolf, Blood on the Clocktower, all of those — I really like those mechanics and I like playing that game, but I’m not always super into the theme. ... The resistance and the spies, that’s fun, but I’m usually watching comedy shows. I watch a lot of Adult Swim and stuff like that. So I was thinking, ‘What is something that’s funny? What’s a funny situation that you would be in trying to get out of?’ It usually just ends up being something weird like that. I love it, and it’s a lot of fun.”
As they continue to devise new projects, the couple supports one another
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in their creative endeavors as the two are sure to cook up plenty more enter- tainment for the public to enjoy.
“What we do is kind of a creative outlet for both of us,” she said. “I don’t think either of us 100% do anything just by ourselves. We bounce ideas off of each other all the time. We do kind of each manage our own projects. So if he’s working on something specifically — like right now, he’s making a robot battle arena and it’s gonna be kind of a battle bots thing. It takes five minutes and you can just play it and I’m working on the game that I’m about to come out with. Even though we have our own things, we both still kind of talk to each other. We’re partners, and we’re creative partners and we share everything.”
The couple’s business, A Narrow Escape, features five puzzle rooms: A Clinical Trial, The Bionic Dilemma, Wonderland, Murder at Silver City, and Pod — which range from easy to hard and require at least two players.
To purchase Killjoy and/or reserve an escape room at A Narrow Escape, go to narrowescapear.com.
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