The New Format

Around the 2019 "12 Days of Christmas" special, Ben and Mike started talking about a new format that would capture the essence of the Infinite Escape Room to date, but would also be slicker and easier to edit down.

Informal chatter about the new format continued for a couple of months until Mike introduced The Gavin Saga, a six part miniseries that would trial The New Format.

Concepts introduced included: The New Format commenced with Escape the Infinite Lobbies, released 19th April 2020, breaking only for the 100th episode anniversary. After the anniversary special, Mike asked Dom to introduce a character in his puzzle that could carry forward into a future puzzle(s).
 * Hard 30 minute limit (flexible if a large puzzle comes along, but set in stone at the beginning of the episode)
 * One person creating the puzzle
 * Three solvers
 * Positive and negative endings

Dom introduced a spaceman at the end of Whoah escape the hippie can maaaan, and the character has featured in most episode since (time of writing 5th July 2020).

We are yet to see where this ad-hoc story telling will take us.