Month: February 2015
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Last Will – Make Us Your Slaves, but Feed Us
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, “ Make us your slaves, but feed us. Last Will is a larp on the subject of a fading human dignity in a world run by money and consumption in which people can be bought and sold as commodities. The
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Ingame or Offgame? Towards a Typology of Frame Switching Between In-character and Out-of-character
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For the Moscow and St. Petersburg larp communities, continuous immersion into the game and into the character seems to be the central point of the larp process. Larp rules proclaim continuity of game, and players generally disapprove one’s going out of the character while playing. This attitude is, however, more declarative than a reflection of
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KoiKoi – Drums! Rituals! Inaction!
In July of 2014 we invited 75 players from around the Nordic countries to a wilderness camp in Finnskogen, Norway, in order to give life to a fictive hunter-gatherer society. For four days and three nights they sang, slept, woke, wept, ate, drank, drummed, flirted, chanted, and performed the ceremonies as men, women and nuk
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Infinite Firing Squads: The Evolution of The Tribunal
I accidentally created a hit, and have ever since been wondering why. I have had success with several mini-larps over the years, such as A Serpent of Ash (2006) and Prayers on a Porcelain Altar (2007), both of which keep getting the occasional rerun here and there. The Tribunal, however, is something else. It has
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A Beginner’s Guide to Handling the Knudeblues
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A beginner’s guide to handling the Knudeblues, the emotional drop felt after larp cons such as Knudepunkt. This text gives you tips to help you land.
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Exit 3: The Bunker – Claustro-drama
In July 2014, 30 players in the Netherlands split into two groups of 15 and allowed themselves to be all but locked up during two of the hottest days of the week. They were playing a larp game called Exit, the third installment in a series exploring interpersonal tension in enclosed spaces. This game was
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Four Backstory Building Games You Can Play Anywhere!
One of the most difficult – but also most rewarding – parts of larp is coming up with a good character backstory. A sense of a character’s past gives great insights into how to play them in the present, for one thing; not to mention, it shines some light on where you may take them
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De la Bête – An Expensive Beast
The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. Revelations, 13:2, the Bible (New International Version) De la Bête (About the Beast) was a larp for 95 players,
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Behind the Larp Census
29.751 larpers can’t (all) be wrong On January 10, 2015, 101 days after launching, the first global Larp Census closed to replies. 29,751 responses were logged from 123 different territories in 17 different languages. The data from this survey is freely available via a Creative Commons license at LarpCensus.org. Barring death, dismemberment, or debilitating drunkenness, the total