Combining Storytelling Tradition and Pervasive Gaming

In recent years storytelling has gone through various attempts of renaissance, thanks to a recreational storytelling revivalist movement, which has not been largely successful. Pervasive gaming is an all-encompassing branch in gaming and has the potential to reach a large amount of people. Moreover, it provides a way to mix modern society with age-old traditions like storytelling. This paper describes the development of a small scale pervasive game embedding at the same time social and improvisational features and the use of this game by amateur storytellers. The game, Props, aims to take storytelling from oblivion to modern urban environments.