Pervasive Games

In this lecture we learnt about Pervasive Games. Games such as "Killer" which is a role-playing game sometimes carried out at Universities and College.

Killer starts out with a group of students and a Game Master who decides the rules and gameplay. Each student is given a target and must "kill" them either by assassination via a nerf gun or an alarm clock which sort of acts as a bomb. No one knows who their assassin is and must kill their target before they themselves are killed. If they fail to do so, the assassin then inherits their targets target.

There have been a few incidents when playing this game. In 2009, Fife, Washington, people were evacuated from a Costco and car dealerships when a "bomb" was left behind by someone playing "Assassin". It was found in a flower bed and it contained a magnet and a beeping motion sensor with the words "Bomb, you're dead"

Eddie had found us a film to watch, La Decima Vittima, translated as The Tenth Victim. Subtitles were a must as it was a foreign film. It was difficult to follow but once you got in to it, it made sense.

At UCS Ipswich, our group of students also have a game of Assassin running. I haven't signed up but if the applications are still open, I'd consider giving it a go


IMDb. 1965. The 10th Victim. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059095/. [Accessed 03 March 15].