Mairi Spaceship Nolan 🚀✨ (she/her)

Hi I'm Mairi👋 I'm a puzzle designer, writer and overenthusiastic escape room enthusiast in the UK. I work on and cover things like: 🔒Escape Rooms 🎮Video Games 🎲Board Games 🗺️Treasure Trails And sometimes also do ambassador and mentorship stuff in the puzzle space too 💞 www.mairispaceship.com

Immensely proud of myself and @rothiotome.bsky.social and our amazing team of collaborators @ginaloughlin.bsky.social @yourkyotowife.bsky.social @mairispaceship.com @mattjohnss.bsky.social @balazsronyai.bsky.social and Javi (not on bluesky) for making this special little game about loving HUMAN art

Now that Steam Next Fest has started I want to remind everybody to not give games with AI any attention, to help you with this you can download this neat extension that will make it A LOT easier to filter through the slop! github.com/seeeeew/aiwa...

Go home UK road signs, you’re drunk.

How are your season 4 dailies going? ❤️ Here's the key art I did for this season 🏙️ Special mention to Rubik and the cubes, the most popular band in town!

New video series! Every week we're going to play a puzzle game and chat about its design - what's clever, what's surprising, and what makes a good puzzle. First up: Chomp Garden by PawPaw Games (@chao-c.bsky.social) Check out the full video here: youtu.be/KkJ-BNE87WY

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

Here's the new trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIRh... You can watch the whole Direct here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJkG... Huge thanks to @gdocexpo.com for organizing the event! I had a blast attending the expo and have found so many new cool games through the sale! #GDoCExpo #GDoCExpo2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

Lovely news to start the week: SOLAS 128, my game about redirecting rhythmic pulses of light, is in a Programming Puzzles Bundle alongside 6 other awesome programming-esque puzzle games. I'm a huge fan of The Signal State and Retro Gadgets looks really cool 💜 www.humblebundle.com/games/progra...

🏳️‍🌈Have a queer or queer-made game releasing in 2027? Our Qweerty Game Dev Microgrant is accepting applications! Recipients will receive up to $2,500 to finish funding their game. 🗓️ Apply by October 11th Thanks to zPride for helping make this possible <3

There's lots of AMAZING #thinky games in the event too! Here's some I've played and loved: Chomp Garden s.team/a/4457150 Compress(space) s.team/a/3664840 Desktop Explorer s.team/a/2527160 Duppy Detective Tashia s.team/a/1958800 Funeral for the Sun s.team/a/4088360 HeartLinks s.team/a/1643800

The @gdocexpo.com Steam Sale is live from now till October 2 with lots of great games with discounts and demos! Check it out: store.steampowered.com/sale/gdocexp... The Detective's Apprentice is participating with a demo you can play here: s.team/a/4159750 #GDoCExpo #GDoCExpo2026 #indiedev

Heads up: The New Voices Puzzle Grant applications close at the end of this week! If you're planning to apply - get your applications in soon :) grants.draknek.org

As Order of the Sinking Star is coming out next month, in advance of review coverage coming in I wanted to add one thing to my last statement about the game: bsky.app/profile/drak... (note: at that time I didn’t have a separate personal account)

The latest episode of the Draknek & Friends Official Podcast is out! In this episode @alanhazelden.bsky.social, @mairispaceship.com and @rachelwatts.bsky.social take a break from videogames to discuss all things board games. Check it out wherever you get podcasts, or head to draknek.org/podcast

Yay achievement unlocked!!

guys I got my visa 〜⁠(⁠꒪⁠꒳⁠꒪⁠)⁠〜

Wax Heads is OFFICIALLY... Overwhelmingly positive on steam 😭❤️🙏

Puzzled Pint is tomorrow! Have loved going to these and solving puzzles with friends. It's a lot of fun! If you're curious about attending one of the 80+ locations (or starting one near you!), check out this beginner's guide from @mairispaceship.com. thinkygames.com/features/puz...

Puzzled Pint is on @thinkygames.com! Thanks @mairispaceship.com for writing about (and joining) us!

I set up Puzzled Pint in its third location (London) in 2013 - if you're interested by the idea of puzzles in a pub, this article will tell you all about it!

Well well well if it isn't the consequences (being very tired) of my own actions (booking 11 escape rooms in 3 days in Athens) 🥲

Only 9 left 🙏

I learnt about the wonders of Puzzled Pint, and now I'm running it in my city alongside some lovely peeps! If you're in Barcelona, consider coming!! :D

LOK Digital is getting dangerously close to 500 reviews and therefore, Overwhelmingly Positive! Please if you played it, we would really appreciate a review! :) And if you haven't yet, please give it a go! There's a demo! store.steampowered.com/app/2207440/...

I wrote an article in @thinkygames.com about Puzzled Pint! Which is only one of my favourite puzzle themed events every month. thinkygames.com/features/puz... @puzzledpint.bsky.social

OUT NOW woooooo

daily reminder ✨

My latest episode of The Infinite Escape Room is out!

Ultrapool has just launched on Steam and Mobile and I guess after 93.2 hours yeah I'd recommend it 🙂‍↕️

Here's the August edition of Thinky Third Thursday, the monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught our eye: thinkythirdthursday.com/august-2026

If you're working on a thinky puzzle game, you should definitely apply! I was one of the recipients last year and I can't stress enough how impactful it was for me. The incredible community support and @mairispaceship.com's mentorship really helped bring out the best in my game!

The New Voices Puzzle Grant is baaaaack grants.draknek.org

How it feels being a detective game fan this month

I love you Jimothy 🦝❤️ [ #cuteart #illustration ]

After @glasgowindiegamesfest.org and @developconference.com back to back I am but a shell of my former self, but it was very nice meeting people at both 🫶

Hi folks! I'm Alan and I run Draknek & Friends, where we make and publish lovingly crafted puzzle games. Draknek is on Bluesky at @draknek.bsky.social and you can check out all our games at www.draknek.org

Missed a Saturday day ticket? Get yourself down to the GIGF Afterparty this Saturday ! 🎮️ All our festival games (Plus a few extra!) 🎵 Music performances 🏆️ Our Best in Show Award Show ❤️ BYOG (Bring your own game !!)( Laptops and handhelds only!)) 🎟️ Tickets glasgowindiegamesfest.org

Aliens are here and for some reason the gang has been chosen as representatives of Earth to communicate with them. Now they just need to figure out what the hell these aliens want before the trigger happy military initiates an interstellar Armageddon ... Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Puzzle Designer / GM: @mairispaceship.com Solvers: @mikecollins.bsky.social, Jon Saunders, @armchairescapist.bsky.social Episode Art: @domjordan.bsky.social Editor: @armchairescapist.bsky.social Listen now: linktr.ee/theinfinitee... #podcast #escaperooms #comedy

I'll be here with Dittori! Come say hi :)

Two lovely people teaming up to make awesome things!!! Check it out 🤩

What an awesome surprise - a wonderfully thoughtful, insightful and cool video about Wax Heads. I love critical analysis like this cause as an artist making stuff, it's the highest compliment for someone to examine and critique your work in such depth! (Plus gives me loads of food for thought)

Not me trying to cram 2.5 weeks of language practice I did not do into the 30 minutes before my lesson.