no, mom, I am not going to get kidnapped by chatting with
strangers online!
Digitally Mediated Larp.
In this game (facilitated over discord), audiences participate as 16-to-18-year-old teens in 1999 who absolutely love two things:
1) a well-known and beloved fictional TV show, anime, book series, or videogame, and
2) text-based roleplay on a chat server called RPFreak.net. This TEENAGE SELF roleplays as their FAVOURITE CHARACTER from an agreed-upon beloved fictional universe with other teens on the 'Net!
This is a digitally mediate Larp, designed to encourage participants to reconcile the views of their youth with those that they hold in adulthood. By asking participants to play the role of a teenager on their computer in the 90s, it is still able to engage with the immersive embodied aspect of the medium while maintaining physical distance between participants.
Designed by Soft Chaos