Thursday 27 May 2021

Live-Action Online Games

LAOGs (Live-Action Online Games by video call) come in three basic forms, as laid out at Nordic LARP:

The invisible call, where you act like you’re in the room together, a way to carry on regular games as long as you have a good connection.

The diegetic call, where the characters are Zooming too (see the film Host) or doing something close like starship officers yelling at each other on ViewScream, which now has several new scenarios including audio-only ghost hunters.

The metaphorical call, where the call is treated like something else like a future holographic conference or a séance (see Host again, as well as all the jokes about how Zoom calls are basically seances anyway - “can you hear me?”) - the example uses the selective mute effect for a game about someone communicating with the afterlife, with “ghost” PCs only able to communicate with the “living” through them.

I wonder if anybody’s done something like Knightmare with a GoPro...

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