Adrian Hon

Adrian Hon
Born	1982 (age 43–44)
Nationality	Scottish
Organization	Six to Start Traverse Theatre
Website	mssv.net

Adrian Hon is a game designer, author, and former CEO and founder of Six to Start. At Six to Start, Adrian co-created Zombies, Run!, led the design of Marvel Move, won Best of Show at SXSW, and worked on multiple projects with Disney Imagineering. He is Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, specialising in immersive art.

Adrian is designing Strandfall, a larp funded by Immersive Arts debuting in September 2026.

Previously, Adrian created the Perplex City alternate reality game, which was a finalist for the Diana Jones Award in 2006, and wrote a column for EDGE magazine.

Publications

• Nikolai Evreinov and a Larp for Oneself in Seasons of Larp (KP, 2026)
• Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser – The Blockbuster to End All Blockbusters in Anatomy of Larp Thoughts (KP, 2025)
• Anatomy of Larp Thoughts (KP, 2025) - reviewer, proofreader

Selected Books

• You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All (Basic Books, 2022)
• A New History of the Future in 100 Objects (MIT Press, 2020)

Articles

• Here's What Makes Jubensha Different (2025)
• The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-changing Sci-fi Larp (2025)
• A Weekend at The Smoke Larp Festival (2025)
• A Weekend at the Immersive Larp Festival (2024)
• Bridge Command (2024)
• Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser (2024)
• Playing Press at Watch The Skies Megagame (2018)
• The Guide – a walkthrough for The Beast alternate reality game for the movie A.I. (2001)

Talks

• Nikolai Evreinov and a Larp for Oneself at Knutpunkt 2026
• Austenland: A Bad Immersive Experience and a Bad Larp at Nordic Larp Talks 2026
• The Critical Backlash to Participation at Sublime Pretense (A Week in Gothenburg for Knutpunkt 2026)
• Eläytyminen: 25 Years of the Turku School panelist at Knutepunkt 2025 (also in Seasons of Larp)
• Agency versus Sovereignty at Nordic Larp Talks 2025
• A Very Short History of UK “Immersion” at Sublime Pretense (A Week in Norway for Knutepunkt 2025)
• The Age of Immersion keynote at the Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium (FACT 2025) at ACMI
• Trends, Traps & Opportunities in the Immersive Entertainment Sector at the Immersive Experience Network Summit (2024)