How to Host a Pervasive Game Supporting Face-to-Face Interactions in Live-Action Roleplaying
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"You are invited to the Bauer mansion for dinner and to help solve a murder." Invitations like this one have been sent out by the millions, inviting friends and family to a multiplayer murder mystery party, often from the best-selling "How to Host a Murder" series of games. At these parties the players gather at a friend's house for dinner imagining it to be a mansion in the 1930's. The party goers often dress up and interact as characters and spend an enjoyable evening together solving a murder mystery.
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