Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Live Action Role-Playing Games (LARP)

TL;DR

This paper explores how artificial intelligence techniques can be applied to Live Action Role-Playing games to improve organization and enhance player experience, highlighting potential benefits and existing approaches.

Contribution

It provides an overview of AI applications in LARP, emphasizing unique properties of LARP that make it suitable for AI integration and outlining future research directions.

Findings

AI can facilitate LARP organization

AI can enhance player experience with new elements

Existing approaches demonstrate initial AI integration in LARP

Abstract

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.