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Pervasive

The Loving Cup

Last weekend I was in Dolgellau in north Wales, running a pervasive game called The Loving Cup. What’s a pervasive game? The term ‘pervasive game’, if you aren’t familiar with it, is quite a vague one and somewhat contested, with other similar terms grappling for idea-space. Wikipedia says: “A pervasive game is one where the […]

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Larp

What Happened in Lanzarote

This was what I got up to on Monday evening, after The Curse. It’s a very different sort of game – a short larp with a farcical tone. A group of neighbours have been on holiday together in Lanzarote. The game takes place as they meet up subsequently, and the players together invent and recreate […]

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Larp

The Curse

Monday was a public holiday in the UK, and a lovely sunny spring day – so rather than spend it picnicking in the park or at the beach like any sensible person, I was in a dank and chilly pub basement in the middle of London, getting some game on. In the evening I played […]

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Larp

Small Town Folks published

I don’t think I actually wrote about this back at the time. OK, then, so to start with: for the past five years I’ve been attending the annual Peaky larp-writing workshop, which takes place the last weekend in April, at a group of farm cottages in Leicestershire. Each year I’ve been part of a team […]