LEO DOULTON

TL;DR: So-called Artificial Intelligence (or Generative Programmes) are becoming ubiquitous. Its possibilities are genuinely exciting....

An analogy I see pop up in a certain amount of literature about game-performance from LARPs to interactive theatre is the...

The other day I wrote about two well-formatted sides of A4 being an optimal amount of information for a fun experience of a piece of...

Update: I've had some further thoughts on why this is wrong. TL;DR: it’s two well-formatted A4 pages for information that’s regularly...

TL;DR: Interactive Theatre is LARP with the burden on the organisers. Most definitions of LARP vs. interactive theatre I know of come...

Future Leo, here’s your one-minute pitch next time you have to give one: I’m Leo, a writer, director, game designer and performer working...

I’ve recently had the pleasure of playtesting 12-Handed Monopoly: A LARP of Capital, Revolution, and Blatant Theft, the second part of my...

I often start these by saying I think it will be brief.* But I have learnt. It might be brief. The core thought here is identifying a...

What would interactive theatre look like if we’d never played The Dragon Game? This is a theme that’s been touched on here before:...

The King of Saving Cats Earlier this week, I had an excellent time at the Interactive Experience Network Huddle listening to Owen...

Introduction I am writing having spent a lovely afternoon workshopping an experiment I’ve had in mind for a while [thank you to everyone...

The first of a sequence of projects I’m calling ’12 Shows’ has been done. It is not, as originally advertised, ‘Show For A Cow’, because...

I have got out of a habit I had when younger: small shows at the edge of my practice in a throw-away manner. That was partly because...

There is a poem many of you will be familiar with: Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been? I’ve been up to London to visit the Queen....

I am very much a writer/director. I’m not a critic. So I’m going to quietly reflect on blogging every advent calendar day, since it seems...

If I have a style (which, alas, I increasingly do as I stagnate away from being a young artist, and get too few opportunities to...

While I’ve seen light-hearted and schlocky interactive theatre, I’ve never seen something that I’d class as comedy-comedy. Mockery of...

Amid the inescapable World Cup coverage recently, I was often reminded of this XKCD comic: While an over-simplification, it does...

I haven’t always been a game designer, or creator of interactive experiences. But when I was a child, there was a promise on a box I’d...

I would like to write in resentment of functionality, and tying things to reality. My mind’s been twisted by Twitter, so I’m going to...