A pervasive game is primarily a location based game where either by ariving at location or completing a task there will allow you to progress in the game there are some of the popular and well known genres such as: Treasure Hunting, LARPs (Live
Action Roleplays), AUGS (augmented reality) and Assassination. Out of all pervasive games the one that has got the most media attention has to be the game of assassination/killers this would be mainly down to police misinterpreting the game when seeing people with a plastic gun and thinking it was real.
All pervasive games are played outside of a console or artificial environment and instead are played in what could be considered the real world. Often they involve tools that relate to the game such as a GPS for treasure hunting, 'weapons' for assassination or maps and instructions in sports and adventures.
In the movie, 'La Decima Vittima'. it gives an example of how a publicly known pervasive game could potentially act out. In the movie the world is full of killers and targets. The 'game' of sorts is common knowledge to the point where outright murder is allowed as long as a player can identify that they are taking part.
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