Tassos Stevens

Pervasive Games & Storytelling

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Coney

Agency of adventure

Live interactive play wherever you are

Principles of Coney

Adventure

Loveliness

Reciprocity

Agency of Engagement

The Playing Audience’s PoV

Rabbit: NTT

A Cat Escapes

Pervasive

Games

Stories…of Players’ Experience

Journey To The EndOf The Night

Following

Reconnaissance

Properties

Affordances

• a birthday party• a music festival• after-work drinks• a football match• Valentine’s night• a youth theatre performance

• a theatre• a public square• a petrol station• a market• a hotel• a train

Affordances

Playing in Public Space

Cruel To Be Kind

People-Watching

Rulesets or Instructions

Rulesets or Instructions

Etiquette

Earpiece

Digital = Communication

Properties & Affordances

• email• live online chat• Facebook messages• payphone• SMS• handwritten letter

• emotional impact

• responsivity

Number of People

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theatre with no actors butthe playing audience

The Gossip Game

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What to you is the heart of a community and is there a story as to why?

With which of this selection of citizens do YOU feel the most affinity?

Le MayorLa ChanteuseLa Fortune-Teller

There's a filthy secret in the Archive of you, this citizen, care to share?

You've gotten this far, you're almost certainly a Wren, but you might yet be a Lark, which tribe do you choose?

How ambitious are you: do you play to play or play to win?

What would you make of the Raven? Or might it even be you?

The story of Andy & Phil

A space for reflection

The heart of a community is a doctor's surgery.People can bond over who their favourite doctor is/who they think isn't 'thorough enough'. It is the less scary and more personal version of a hospital, ushering in life and preventing or explaining death. And sitting in the waiting roomis the perfect place to people-watch and feign anonymity when in fact you always recognise someone else there. It may not be the happiest place but it's one of the most important. A bad doctor's surgery reflects a bad community. There. I've said it.

• Stage 1: try and fail• Stage 2: throw out the story• Stage 3: write and plot • Stage 4: scratch / playtest• Stage 5: full theatricality

Compelling collective narrative

Incorporating the consequences of individual’s own stories and play

• West Side Story• The Tempest• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern…• Jaws• 2001: A Space Odyssey• East is East

Verbs of gameplay

Dynamic

Challenge

Obstacles or conflict

• Verbs• Dynamic• Event• Space or Place• Number of players• Communications & Instructions

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