A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon
Playing with reality
QAnon has often been compared to ARGs and LARPs and rightly so. It uses many of the same gaming mechanisms and rewards. It has a game-like feel to it that is evident to anyone who has ever played an ARG, online role-play (RP) or LARP before. The similarities are so striking that it has often been referred to as a LARP or ARG. However this beast is very very different from a game.
[..]In one of the very first experience fictions (XF) I ever designed ... Read even more
