Monthly Archives: December 2011

What’s the Best Definition of Pervasive Gaming?

I’ve just noticed that the Wikipedia page for “pervasive game” redirects to the page for “location-based game,” though I don’t believe the two are congruent. Location-based games leverage the player’s presence at a specific location in some way, while pervasive … Continue reading

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His Father was the Pope: The Exquisite Corpse of GS623

In the graduate studies course on the history and techniques of games that I’ve been teaching, I have my students create a prose Exquisite Corpse as part of our unit on parlor games. (We are also talking about participatory storytelling … Continue reading

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