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Who is mike salyh?

I'm a puzzle & game designer based out of Los Angeles, California. In my career, I've built escape rooms for a circus, created math games for a mouse or two, and even designed an interactive wine tastingI look for fun in unexpected places.

In 2019 I co-founded Coin Crew Games, with the goal of bring data-science techniques to the coin-op market.

If you'd like to collaborate (or just say hello), you can reach me at mike@salyh.com.

RECENT TALKS & INTERVIEWS

Building Escape Rooms + Arcade Machines

Universität Bayreuth, May 20th, 2020

A long talk about my process designing location-based games, from start to finish.

Download Slides (Google Drive)

Designing the ‘space squad’ escape room

Two Bit Circus Foundation, 2019

A little interview about how I used S.T.E.A.M. concepts when building an Escape Room for Two Bit Circus.