Lecture: Design of Pervasive Larps

Description
Creating larps that blur the line between life and game have special
design considerations. This lecture charts the area of pervasive larps
and gives concrete guidelines how to make them work.

Who
Jaakko Stenros is a game researcher at the University of Tampere Game Research Lab. For the past few years he has been specializing in pervasive games and is writing a book on the subject with Markus Montola. He has role-played for 20 years, and has written on the subject in numerous places for over a decade.

Markus Montola is a game researcher and a doctoral candiate in University of Tampere, Finnland. He is writing his thesis on role-playing and pervasive gaming. During the last 20 years he has tried out most of the various forms of roleplaying and is a regular writer for Roolipelaaja magazine.

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