Adrian Hon
@adrianhon.bsky.social
Founder and former CEO of Six to Start, made Zombies, Run!, wrote "You've Been Played" and "A History of the Future in 100 Objects".
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Just saw Rutger Bergman is doing the Reith lectures this year. How far they’ve fallen! The man is a hack.
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just saw Rutger Bergman is doing the Reith lectures this year. How far they’ve fallen! The man is a hack.
A good news story on The Verge to kick off the week! Season 11 of Zombies, Run! is coming, plus a story serving as an on-ramp for new users, according to Naomi...
Good news for fitness and running nerds. Zombies, Run! has been bought back by co-creator and author @naomialderman.bsky.social.
"Zombies, Run! has been a community effort since the first Kickstarter, and we’ll keep it shambling on together," she tells The Verge.
www.theverge.com/gadgets/8275...
"Zombies, Run! has been a community effort since the first Kickstarter, and we’ll keep it shambling on together," she tells The Verge.
www.theverge.com/gadgets/8275...
Zombies, Run! isn’t headed for the grave after all
Good news, Runners Five.
www.theverge.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A good news story on The Verge to kick off the week! Season 11 of Zombies, Run! is coming, plus a story serving as an on-ramp for new users, according to Naomi...
Absolutely delighted by this – I can't think of a better home for Zombies, Run! than with Naomi!
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Absolutely delighted by this – I can't think of a better home for Zombies, Run! than with Naomi!
I wrote about this!
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I wrote about this!
This is what ChatGPT would generate if you asked it to design the most English football stadium possible
‘A modern-day Colosseum’: Birmingham City unveil 62,000-capacity stadium plans
Birmingham City’s stadium is planned to feature 12 chimney-like towers and club chair Tom Wagner sees it as ‘a beacon for excellence’
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This is what ChatGPT would generate if you asked it to design the most English football stadium possible
Re-upping for the morning crowd: I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London for 8-9th May 2026!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
Pre-announcing my Jubensha Convention
Come to my Jubensha convention in London on 8-9th May 2026!
mssv.net
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Re-upping for the morning crowd: I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London for 8-9th May 2026!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
Come and play jubensha, meet top game designers, and learn how it's designed. It's *probably* the first jubensha English-language convention in the world...
Tickets will be around £15!
I'm running a Jubensha convention in London on May 8-9th 2026!
Play games, learn how Jubensha is made, and meet designers from Suspense Studios (KMS Games), Chronic Insanity, and the people behind Spy of the Year!
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Play games, learn how Jubensha is made, and meet designers from Suspense Studios (KMS Games), Chronic Insanity, and the people behind Spy of the Year!
Sign up to keep updated (and so I know how many people will come!)
Jubensha Convention 2026
Hello – I'm Adrian Hon, and I'm organising a Jubensha Convention in London at Theatre Deli! It'll run from 6-9pm on Friday 8th May, and from 10am to 9pm on Saturday 9th May 2026.
It's not going to be...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I'm running a Jubensha convention in London on May 8-9th 2026!
Play games, learn how Jubensha is made, and meet designers from Suspense Studios (KMS Games), Chronic Insanity, and the people behind Spy of the Year!
Sign up to keep updated (and so I know how many people will come!)
Play games, learn how Jubensha is made, and meet designers from Suspense Studios (KMS Games), Chronic Insanity, and the people behind Spy of the Year!
Sign up to keep updated (and so I know how many people will come!)
This “fictional ARG” video is a fascinating hybrid of found footage, Minecraft game design, and collaborative fiction - oh, and it has over 13 million views
I finally wrote about the big Minecraft ARG that's been making the rounds!
If it was just a King in Yellow adaptation, I probably wouldn't have spent the weekend diving in. But I'm a sucker for a story that's a matryoshka doll of unreliable narrators, with an "ARG explainer" video as top layer.
If it was just a King in Yellow adaptation, I probably wouldn't have spent the weekend diving in. But I'm a sucker for a story that's a matryoshka doll of unreliable narrators, with an "ARG explainer" video as top layer.
The King in Yellow as Found Footage Minecraft ARG | ARGNet: Alternate Reality Gaming Network
Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist is a recent Minecraft ARG loosely based on the King in Yellow mythos, in which a YouTuber pieces together found footage from a Minecraft playthrough
www.argn.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This “fictional ARG” video is a fascinating hybrid of found footage, Minecraft game design, and collaborative fiction - oh, and it has over 13 million views
I love to see more roomscale games so I will be picking this up!
Hotel Infinity launches today on Meta Quest & PS VR2!
It's a roomscale VR experience built around natural locomotion. Every step you take in real life moves you through the game
Meta Quest: www.meta.com/experiences/...
PS VR2: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
youtu.be/ixaSqmiYqyU?...
It's a roomscale VR experience built around natural locomotion. Every step you take in real life moves you through the game
Meta Quest: www.meta.com/experiences/...
PS VR2: store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
youtu.be/ixaSqmiYqyU?...
Hotel Infinity - Launch Trailer (Meta Quest & PS VR2)
YouTube video by William Chyr
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I love to see more roomscale games so I will be picking this up!
This is delightful!
Did you ever wonder why Stephen Sondheim made a cameo appearance in Knives Out: Glass Onion, or what inspired movies like Michael Douglas' "The Game" and Disney's "Midnight Madness"?
Both of those answers can be found in the book "Matching Minds with Sondheim". Here's a review, explaining why.
Both of those answers can be found in the book "Matching Minds with Sondheim". Here's a review, explaining why.
Stephen Sondheim Loved Puzzles More Than You | ARGNet: Alternate Reality Gaming Network
Matching Minds with Sondheim is a book that explores the composer and lyricist's enduring passion for puzzles and games, and the lasting impact his works have left on the space.
www.argn.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is delightful!
Damn, someone really should write a book about how gamification is often very bad!
Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral’
System rewards soldiers who achieve strikes with points that can be used to buy more weapons in an online store
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Damn, someone really should write a book about how gamification is often very bad!
This was really pretty good! Great thread discussing it here in terms of immersive entertainment.
The first feature of the evening was the French film La Belle Époque (2019, dir. Nicolas Bedos). Now, usually we don’t watch films that are actually good at this club. It is even rarer to watch films that are great. Le Belle Époque is genuinely awesome.
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This was really pretty good! Great thread discussing it here in terms of immersive entertainment.
Ticket acquired - see you at the Nordic Larp conference in Gothenburg!
Ticket sale for Knutpunk 2026 just opened, already got mine: knutpunkt.se
KP26: Welcome to Knutpunkt 2026!
knutpunkt.se
November 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Ticket acquired - see you at the Nordic Larp conference in Gothenburg!
Reposted by Adrian Hon
Palestinian larp needs our help. During the last 15 years, a vibrant larp culture has grown in Palestine, together with the Palestinian larp organization Bait Byout. Israeli repression affects all areas of Palestinian larp, including larp. Donate if you can
birthoflarp.wordpress.com/support-larp...
birthoflarp.wordpress.com/support-larp...
Support larp in Palestine!
The ongoing occupation places a severe strain on all aspects of Palestinian life and freedom. Needless to say, the situation has deteriorated severly during the recent years of active war in the Ga…
birthoflarp.wordpress.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Palestinian larp needs our help. During the last 15 years, a vibrant larp culture has grown in Palestine, together with the Palestinian larp organization Bait Byout. Israeli repression affects all areas of Palestinian larp, including larp. Donate if you can
birthoflarp.wordpress.com/support-larp...
birthoflarp.wordpress.com/support-larp...
About 40% through The Rose Field, the final instalment to Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust, and I can't bring myself to go any further.
Not because it's bad – I'm enjoying it! – but because I'm not quite ready for this story to be finally done.
Not because it's bad – I'm enjoying it! – but because I'm not quite ready for this story to be finally done.
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
About 40% through The Rose Field, the final instalment to Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust, and I can't bring myself to go any further.
Not because it's bad – I'm enjoying it! – but because I'm not quite ready for this story to be finally done.
Not because it's bad – I'm enjoying it! – but because I'm not quite ready for this story to be finally done.
The New Yorker keeps switching between AI and human narrators for its audio articles – it's striking how much more comfortable and comprehensible the humans are.
AI narrators are useful when there's no alternative, but these pieces must get tens of thousands of listeners... just pay for a human!
AI narrators are useful when there's no alternative, but these pieces must get tens of thousands of listeners... just pay for a human!
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The New Yorker keeps switching between AI and human narrators for its audio articles – it's striking how much more comfortable and comprehensible the humans are.
AI narrators are useful when there's no alternative, but these pieces must get tens of thousands of listeners... just pay for a human!
AI narrators are useful when there's no alternative, but these pieces must get tens of thousands of listeners... just pay for a human!
This is cool – but $699?!? It's discounted to $499 for now, but that is a *lot* of money.
Board Founder Edition – Board Console with 12 Games Included
Board.fun — the official site for the Board Console. Board fuses the best of board games and video games into something entirely new. A 24” face-to-face gaming console that brings everyone together to...
board.fun
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This is cool – but $699?!? It's discounted to $499 for now, but that is a *lot* of money.
Immersive experience where you compete to do real world transactional stuff as fast as possible - airport security, ordering at fast food kiosk, supermarket self-checkout
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Immersive experience where you compete to do real world transactional stuff as fast as possible - airport security, ordering at fast food kiosk, supermarket self-checkout
Day 2 thread of my coverage of the Immersive Experience Network Summit in London! Check out Day 1 below...
Adrian Cohen: Big screen Cosm venues are about providing social immersive experience without VR headsets, i.e. feeling of being together in a stadium together.
Adrian Cohen: Big screen Cosm venues are about providing social immersive experience without VR headsets, i.e. feeling of being together in a stadium together.
October 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Day 2 thread of my coverage of the Immersive Experience Network Summit in London! Check out Day 1 below...
Adrian Cohen: Big screen Cosm venues are about providing social immersive experience without VR headsets, i.e. feeling of being together in a stadium together.
Adrian Cohen: Big screen Cosm venues are about providing social immersive experience without VR headsets, i.e. feeling of being together in a stadium together.
Even "good immigrants" are cast aside by the UK's xenophobic policies. Once again this country can't even clear the lowest-ever bar of its post-imperial responsibilities.
Archive: archive.is/VtFMc
Archive: archive.is/VtFMc
UK Hongkongers rue the rockiness of their ‘lifeboat’ after threatened visa changes
People who fled Chinese territory are angry after London looks at doubling length of time required to gain citizenship
www.ft.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Even "good immigrants" are cast aside by the UK's xenophobic policies. Once again this country can't even clear the lowest-ever bar of its post-imperial responsibilities.
Archive: archive.is/VtFMc
Archive: archive.is/VtFMc
There is a lot of talk here (by me) about organising a Jubensha convention in the UK next year, just saying…
Here's my ongoing thread about the Immersive Experience Network Summit in London, happening today and tomorrow!
Feel free to mute if you aren't into this stuff but it's a good crowd and people are pretty open about their opinions and experience... 🧵
Feel free to mute if you aren't into this stuff but it's a good crowd and people are pretty open about their opinions and experience... 🧵
Summit 25 Programme - Immersive Experience Network
immersiveexperience.network
October 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
There is a lot of talk here (by me) about organising a Jubensha convention in the UK next year, just saying…
Here's my ongoing thread about the Immersive Experience Network Summit in London, happening today and tomorrow!
Feel free to mute if you aren't into this stuff but it's a good crowd and people are pretty open about their opinions and experience... 🧵
Feel free to mute if you aren't into this stuff but it's a good crowd and people are pretty open about their opinions and experience... 🧵
Summit 25 Programme - Immersive Experience Network
immersiveexperience.network
October 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Here's my ongoing thread about the Immersive Experience Network Summit in London, happening today and tomorrow!
Feel free to mute if you aren't into this stuff but it's a good crowd and people are pretty open about their opinions and experience... 🧵
Feel free to mute if you aren't into this stuff but it's a good crowd and people are pretty open about their opinions and experience... 🧵
If you like interactive fiction and games like Kentucky Route Zero, you owe it to yourself to check this out. Just caught a preview and loved it!
The Map and The Echo | British Library
A specially commissioned interactive performance piece from theatre-maker Seth Krieble.
events.bl.uk
October 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
If you like interactive fiction and games like Kentucky Route Zero, you owe it to yourself to check this out. Just caught a preview and loved it!
By an amazing coincidence, the same day I start playing BallxPit, I saw a LinkedIn post from a games industry person saying “hey guys maybe it’s not great that so many games are using gambling mechanics these days?”
October 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
By an amazing coincidence, the same day I start playing BallxPit, I saw a LinkedIn post from a games industry person saying “hey guys maybe it’s not great that so many games are using gambling mechanics these days?”
Went to my first BAFTA screening in a long time, for Nouvelle Vague. I liked it a lot!
It probably helped that the audience, pretty much all of whom work in the film industry, laughed and groaned in sympathy. There’s a very different vibe when people are watching a film because they care.
It probably helped that the audience, pretty much all of whom work in the film industry, laughed and groaned in sympathy. There’s a very different vibe when people are watching a film because they care.
October 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Went to my first BAFTA screening in a long time, for Nouvelle Vague. I liked it a lot!
It probably helped that the audience, pretty much all of whom work in the film industry, laughed and groaned in sympathy. There’s a very different vibe when people are watching a film because they care.
It probably helped that the audience, pretty much all of whom work in the film industry, laughed and groaned in sympathy. There’s a very different vibe when people are watching a film because they care.