I'm Stevenson Streeper, the Director.
I'm a game designer trying to make a Theme Park,
and I am constantly working on something.
If you haven't been keeping up with us for years it's hard to keep track of what exactly it is.
So here's a short summary of what's happened up to this point:
- In 2014 I opened the first Escape Room in San Diego. It went well!
- In 2016 we opened a new facility in Hillcrest. We tried to make a 9-player spaceship simulator. That didn't go so well.
- We panicked and made The Floor is Lava instead. It was a good game! We ran that for about 3 years and installed copies in Las Vegas and Europe.
- In 2017 we opened The Parlour. An escape room that was secretly a thematic resource management game in disguise. It won awards!
- In 2018 we ran a Murder Mystery MegaGame called Hear/Say at the Lafayette hotel. It was one of our best-attended events up to that point, so we ran another Hear/Say that fall that included a dinner! The reviews were that the game and murder scene were cool, but that we should never serve dinner again. And I couldn't agree more.
- In 2020 COVID hit and we had to close. We also made a special miniature escape room for a streamer. Thanks to the donations of that streamer's audience, the donations of my patrons, and my sale of my boardgame, I was able to buy a laser cutter.
- In 2021 we began working on Electra City: A high-tech RPG Theme Park prototype. We worked on that for a good chunk of the year while also running a MegaGame in downtown San Diego.
- In 2022 we ran an adult egg hunt called Easterween which was dumb and fun.
- I also at this point realized that Electra City would be too much software to code all by myself, and I needed a lower-tech way of testing whether the game was fun before investing in a software framework. So I created Shadowspire and brought an early version of it to GenCon 2022 for playtesting.
- The test revealed a fundamental flaw with the core game design conceit, forcing me back to the drawing board, wherein I briefly considered making a Mini-golf course to fix it.
- As finances got tighter, we began work on a video game compilation of party games for people to play together called PartySparkers.
- We launched a new boardgame convention called GameDiego in Spring 2023, and another GameDiego for summer, including an all-new murder mystery game called Hear/Say 4: Final Curtain.