Adrian Hon
@adrianhon.bsky.social
Founder and former CEO of Six to Start, made Zombies, Run!, wrote "You've Been Played" and "A History of the Future in 100 Objects".
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
This is delightful!
Did you ever wonder why Stephen Sondheim made a cameo appearance in Knives Out: Glass Onion, or what inspired movies like Michael Douglas' "The Game" and Disney's "Midnight Madness"?
Both of those answers can be found in the book "Matching Minds with Sondheim". Here's a review, explaining why.
Both of those answers can be found in the book "Matching Minds with Sondheim". Here's a review, explaining why.
Stephen Sondheim Loved Puzzles More Than You | ARGNet: Alternate Reality Gaming Network
Matching Minds with Sondheim is a book that explores the composer and lyricist's enduring passion for puzzles and games, and the lasting impact his works have left on the space.
www.argn.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is delightful!
Damn, someone really should write a book about how gamification is often very bad!
Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral’
System rewards soldiers who achieve strikes with points that can be used to buy more weapons in an online store
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Damn, someone really should write a book about how gamification is often very bad!
This was really pretty good! Great thread discussing it here in terms of immersive entertainment.
The first feature of the evening was the French film La Belle Époque (2019, dir. Nicolas Bedos). Now, usually we don’t watch films that are actually good at this club. It is even rarer to watch films that are great. Le Belle Époque is genuinely awesome.
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This was really pretty good! Great thread discussing it here in terms of immersive entertainment.
Ticket acquired - see you at the Nordic Larp conference in Gothenburg!
Ticket sale for Knutpunk 2026 just opened, already got mine: knutpunkt.se
KP26: Welcome to Knutpunkt 2026!
knutpunkt.se
November 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Ticket acquired - see you at the Nordic Larp conference in Gothenburg!
Reposted by Adrian Hon
Palestinian larp needs our help. During the last 15 years, a vibrant larp culture has grown in Palestine, together with the Palestinian larp organization Bait Byout. Israeli repression affects all areas of Palestinian larp, including larp. Donate if you can
birthoflarp.wordpress.com/support-larp...
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Support larp in Palestine!
The ongoing occupation places a severe strain on all aspects of Palestinian life and freedom. Needless to say, the situation has deteriorated severly during the recent years of active war in the Ga…
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November 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Palestinian larp needs our help. During the last 15 years, a vibrant larp culture has grown in Palestine, together with the Palestinian larp organization Bait Byout. Israeli repression affects all areas of Palestinian larp, including larp. Donate if you can
birthoflarp.wordpress.com/support-larp...
birthoflarp.wordpress.com/support-larp...
About 40% through The Rose Field, the final instalment to Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust, and I can't bring myself to go any further.
Not because it's bad – I'm enjoying it! – but because I'm not quite ready for this story to be finally done.
Not because it's bad – I'm enjoying it! – but because I'm not quite ready for this story to be finally done.
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
About 40% through The Rose Field, the final instalment to Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust, and I can't bring myself to go any further.
Not because it's bad – I'm enjoying it! – but because I'm not quite ready for this story to be finally done.
Not because it's bad – I'm enjoying it! – but because I'm not quite ready for this story to be finally done.
The New Yorker keeps switching between AI and human narrators for its audio articles – it's striking how much more comfortable and comprehensible the humans are.
AI narrators are useful when there's no alternative, but these pieces must get tens of thousands of listeners... just pay for a human!
AI narrators are useful when there's no alternative, but these pieces must get tens of thousands of listeners... just pay for a human!
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The New Yorker keeps switching between AI and human narrators for its audio articles – it's striking how much more comfortable and comprehensible the humans are.
AI narrators are useful when there's no alternative, but these pieces must get tens of thousands of listeners... just pay for a human!
AI narrators are useful when there's no alternative, but these pieces must get tens of thousands of listeners... just pay for a human!
This is cool – but $699?!? It's discounted to $499 for now, but that is a *lot* of money.
Board Founder Edition – Board Console with 12 Games Included
Board.fun — the official site for the Board Console. Board fuses the best of board games and video games into something entirely new. A 24” face-to-face gaming console that brings everyone together to...
board.fun
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This is cool – but $699?!? It's discounted to $499 for now, but that is a *lot* of money.
Immersive experience where you compete to do real world transactional stuff as fast as possible - airport security, ordering at fast food kiosk, supermarket self-checkout
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Immersive experience where you compete to do real world transactional stuff as fast as possible - airport security, ordering at fast food kiosk, supermarket self-checkout
Day 2 thread of my coverage of the Immersive Experience Network Summit in London! Check out Day 1 below...
Adrian Cohen: Big screen Cosm venues are about providing social immersive experience without VR headsets, i.e. feeling of being together in a stadium together.
Adrian Cohen: Big screen Cosm venues are about providing social immersive experience without VR headsets, i.e. feeling of being together in a stadium together.
October 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Day 2 thread of my coverage of the Immersive Experience Network Summit in London! Check out Day 1 below...
Adrian Cohen: Big screen Cosm venues are about providing social immersive experience without VR headsets, i.e. feeling of being together in a stadium together.
Adrian Cohen: Big screen Cosm venues are about providing social immersive experience without VR headsets, i.e. feeling of being together in a stadium together.
Even "good immigrants" are cast aside by the UK's xenophobic policies. Once again this country can't even clear the lowest-ever bar of its post-imperial responsibilities.
Archive: archive.is/VtFMc
Archive: archive.is/VtFMc
UK Hongkongers rue the rockiness of their ‘lifeboat’ after threatened visa changes
People who fled Chinese territory are angry after London looks at doubling length of time required to gain citizenship
www.ft.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Even "good immigrants" are cast aside by the UK's xenophobic policies. Once again this country can't even clear the lowest-ever bar of its post-imperial responsibilities.
Archive: archive.is/VtFMc
Archive: archive.is/VtFMc
There is a lot of talk here (by me) about organising a Jubensha convention in the UK next year, just saying…
Here's my ongoing thread about the Immersive Experience Network Summit in London, happening today and tomorrow!
Feel free to mute if you aren't into this stuff but it's a good crowd and people are pretty open about their opinions and experience... 🧵
Feel free to mute if you aren't into this stuff but it's a good crowd and people are pretty open about their opinions and experience... 🧵
Summit 25 Programme - Immersive Experience Network
immersiveexperience.network
October 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
There is a lot of talk here (by me) about organising a Jubensha convention in the UK next year, just saying…
Here's my ongoing thread about the Immersive Experience Network Summit in London, happening today and tomorrow!
Feel free to mute if you aren't into this stuff but it's a good crowd and people are pretty open about their opinions and experience... 🧵
Feel free to mute if you aren't into this stuff but it's a good crowd and people are pretty open about their opinions and experience... 🧵
Summit 25 Programme - Immersive Experience Network
immersiveexperience.network
October 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Here's my ongoing thread about the Immersive Experience Network Summit in London, happening today and tomorrow!
Feel free to mute if you aren't into this stuff but it's a good crowd and people are pretty open about their opinions and experience... 🧵
Feel free to mute if you aren't into this stuff but it's a good crowd and people are pretty open about their opinions and experience... 🧵
If you like interactive fiction and games like Kentucky Route Zero, you owe it to yourself to check this out. Just caught a preview and loved it!
The Map and The Echo | British Library
A specially commissioned interactive performance piece from theatre-maker Seth Krieble.
events.bl.uk
October 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
If you like interactive fiction and games like Kentucky Route Zero, you owe it to yourself to check this out. Just caught a preview and loved it!
By an amazing coincidence, the same day I start playing BallxPit, I saw a LinkedIn post from a games industry person saying “hey guys maybe it’s not great that so many games are using gambling mechanics these days?”
October 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
By an amazing coincidence, the same day I start playing BallxPit, I saw a LinkedIn post from a games industry person saying “hey guys maybe it’s not great that so many games are using gambling mechanics these days?”
Went to my first BAFTA screening in a long time, for Nouvelle Vague. I liked it a lot!
It probably helped that the audience, pretty much all of whom work in the film industry, laughed and groaned in sympathy. There’s a very different vibe when people are watching a film because they care.
It probably helped that the audience, pretty much all of whom work in the film industry, laughed and groaned in sympathy. There’s a very different vibe when people are watching a film because they care.
October 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Went to my first BAFTA screening in a long time, for Nouvelle Vague. I liked it a lot!
It probably helped that the audience, pretty much all of whom work in the film industry, laughed and groaned in sympathy. There’s a very different vibe when people are watching a film because they care.
It probably helped that the audience, pretty much all of whom work in the film industry, laughed and groaned in sympathy. There’s a very different vibe when people are watching a film because they care.
I am finally going to see ABBA Voyage in January for Research!
I need your advice – which tickets should I get? Are the more expensive ones at all worth it?
/cc @naomialderman.bsky.social @thacher.bsky.social
I need your advice – which tickets should I get? Are the more expensive ones at all worth it?
/cc @naomialderman.bsky.social @thacher.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I am finally going to see ABBA Voyage in January for Research!
I need your advice – which tickets should I get? Are the more expensive ones at all worth it?
/cc @naomialderman.bsky.social @thacher.bsky.social
I need your advice – which tickets should I get? Are the more expensive ones at all worth it?
/cc @naomialderman.bsky.social @thacher.bsky.social
Just tried ZU-UK’s Within Touching Distance VR experience, which involves a live performer mirroring a virtual person’s touch.
I’ve read a lot about how their work over the decades has focused on caring and touch so it was great to try it out in person. Interesting!
I’ve read a lot about how their work over the decades has focused on caring and touch so it was great to try it out in person. Interesting!
Within Touching Distance – ZU-UK
zu-uk.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Just tried ZU-UK’s Within Touching Distance VR experience, which involves a live performer mirroring a virtual person’s touch.
I’ve read a lot about how their work over the decades has focused on caring and touch so it was great to try it out in person. Interesting!
I’ve read a lot about how their work over the decades has focused on caring and touch so it was great to try it out in person. Interesting!
All networking events need at least one designated host who goes around looking for people on their own and introduces them to others with similar interests.
This takes maybe a couple of minutes per person and is pretty fun and easy if you know what you’re doing!
This takes maybe a couple of minutes per person and is pretty fun and easy if you know what you’re doing!
October 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
All networking events need at least one designated host who goes around looking for people on their own and introduces them to others with similar interests.
This takes maybe a couple of minutes per person and is pretty fun and easy if you know what you’re doing!
This takes maybe a couple of minutes per person and is pretty fun and easy if you know what you’re doing!
Quite the trip to read about The Mars Society’s conference this year. I was at the first one in Colorado in 1998 after winning an essay competition about why humans should go to Mars when I was 15.
A few years later, I was a crewmember in one of the first mission simulations in the Utah desert…
A few years later, I was a crewmember in one of the first mission simulations in the Utah desert…
They’re Ready to Go to Mars
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Quite the trip to read about The Mars Society’s conference this year. I was at the first one in Colorado in 1998 after winning an essay competition about why humans should go to Mars when I was 15.
A few years later, I was a crewmember in one of the first mission simulations in the Utah desert…
A few years later, I was a crewmember in one of the first mission simulations in the Utah desert…
I’m going and you should go too!
SIGN UP FOR THE SMOKE 2026
Join us on the 9th to 11th January in London's Theatre Deli as we host an incredible 50+ larps from all over the world.
Come join the magic
Link to Tickets:
omenstar.com/shop/
Link to the website:
www.thesmoke.org
💚💛🤍💛💚
☁️The Smoke☁️
Join us on the 9th to 11th January in London's Theatre Deli as we host an incredible 50+ larps from all over the world.
Come join the magic
Link to Tickets:
omenstar.com/shop/
Link to the website:
www.thesmoke.org
💚💛🤍💛💚
☁️The Smoke☁️
October 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I’m going and you should go too!
a lot of people don’t realise the new willennium began in 2001, not 2000
October 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
a lot of people don’t realise the new willennium began in 2001, not 2000
Fascinated how friendslop games recapitulate real world hobbies that provide challenge and connection, even as we're newly surprised that real world hobbies can do the same
‘Escapism is down there’: The men finding solace and community in the dark of disused Cornish mines
A new documentary, The Lost Boys of Carbis Bay, follows a band of explorers into their underground world
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Fascinated how friendslop games recapitulate real world hobbies that provide challenge and connection, even as we're newly surprised that real world hobbies can do the same
Truly awful ep of This American Life this week: Evan Ratliff gets his "AI clone" to call up friends and family for Content and later says, “huh I had no idea this would have been so annoying and disturbing to people," as if such a realisation would have been impossible beforehand
October 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Truly awful ep of This American Life this week: Evan Ratliff gets his "AI clone" to call up friends and family for Content and later says, “huh I had no idea this would have been so annoying and disturbing to people," as if such a realisation would have been impossible beforehand
don't threaten me with a good time
William Hill owner says it could shut up to 200 shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes
Evoke considering the plans before expected tax increases in budget, with up to 1,500 jobs potentially affected
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
don't threaten me with a good time