Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Live Action Role-Playing Games (LARP)
This work addresses the challenge of improving LARP games for players and organizers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing AI methods without introducing new ones.
The paper explores how artificial intelligence techniques can be applied to Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) games to simplify organization and enhance player experiences with new elements.
Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) games and similar experiences are becoming a popular game genre. Here, we discuss how artificial intelligence techniques, particularly those commonly used in AI for Games, could be applied to LARP. We discuss the specific properties of LARP that make it a surprisingly suitable application field, and provide a brief overview of some existing approaches. We then outline several directions where utilizing AI seems beneficial, by both making LARPs easier to organize, and by enhancing the player experience with elements not possible without AI.