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Markus Montola

Hello! I am a game researcher currently working on my dissertation on role-playing and pervasive games, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

During the last couple of years I have worked at Grey Area Labs, Nokia Research Center and University of Tampere "Game Research Lab serves as the environment and platform for the work related to games and also to interactive media entertainment in general".Gamelab. Among other things, I have worked with pervasive games in Integrated Project on Pervasive GamingIPerG project, which ran from October 2004 to February 2008.

I've worked on four books; Pervasive Games, Nordic Larp, Playground Worlds and Beyond Role and Play. Currently I'm working as a gameplay designer on the mobile MMORPG Shadow Cities.

Here's how to reach me:

Cellphone: +358 44 544 2445.
Research and studies: firstname.lastname@uta.fi
Leisure: firstname.lastname@iki.fi

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