David Staffell
Design
Design
Creator
& Consultant
Services
- ‘Brick and Mortar’ Escape Rooms
- Boxed Escape Games
- Outdoor puzzle hunts
- Video games
- Board games
- Table-top mysteries
- and everything in between!
I design:
I offer:
Creation:
- Fully bespoke experiences: Escape rooms and puzzle games built from scratch and tailored precisely to your needs.
Whether it’s 1 player or 100+ players, I can make it.
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Immersive gameplay design: Developing interactive challenges, narrative moments for live shows, installations, and brand-activations.
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Outdoor puzzle adventures: Designing city-wide treasure hunts, and location-based games that make real-world spaces come alive.
- Individual puzzles: Crafting original ciphers, riddles, logic challenges, and physical interactions to fit seamlessly within larger experiences, or stand alone as elegant self-contained moments.
Consultancy:
- Expert direction: Offering expert-level feedback, creative direction and structural insight to assist in production and the challenges it brings.
- Technical documentation: Writing
clear game flows, puzzle specifications, and operating manuals to help teams
build and run experiences smoothly.
- Concept development: Turning
ideas into playable frameworks through brainstorming, prototyping, and
early-stage design support.
- Playtesting and refinement:Running sessions to observe players, analyse data, and
optimise flow, difficulty, and engagement.
If you’re looking for someone to take your puzzle-game ideas and make them reality, or you need expert-level guidance, I can help.
To get in touch, please send me a message.
To get in touch, please send me a message.