When the pandemic hit Canada, I had just begun the process of writing my Master’s thesis, and though I did not realize it at the time, COVID-19 would not only impact how I am writing but also, to an extent, what I am writing about. The working title for my thesis is “Casual Play, Hardcore Community: The Social and Spatial Dynamics of Locative Gaming” and for this project, I interviewed fifteen active members/players of both …