Facilitating apophenia to augment the experience of pervasive LARPs

Neil Dansey

Facilitating apophenia to augment the experience of pervasive LARPs

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Abstract

In a ‘traditional’ game the boundaries of play are quite specific, enabling players to easily decide whether or not perceived events are relevant to the game. In pervasive games the magic circle is not as clearly defined and as a result, order is sometimes seen in chaos. So far, effects have been observed in social, spatial and temporal dimensions. Therefore it is proposed that using ambiguous narrative elements could further augment the experience in a similar way.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Apr 2008
Event	Breaking the Magic Circle Seminar - Tampere, Finland Duration: 10 Apr 2008 → 11 Apr 2008

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Conference	Breaking the Magic Circle Seminar
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Tampere
Period	10/04/08 → 11/04/08

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Emergent Benefits of Ambiguous Gameplay
Dansey, N., Eyles, M., Eglin, R. & Stevens, B.
1/10/07 → 1/12/14
Project: Research

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