Last Will – 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 larp is set in a future where debt…
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Ingame or Offgame? Towards a Typology of Frame Switching Between In-character and Out-of-character
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…
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,…
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…
A Beginner’s Guide to Handling the Knudeblues
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.
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,…
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…
De la Bête – An Expensive Beast
De la Bête (About the Beast) was a larp for 95 players, running over 48 hours, with 12 hours workshops before and some extra three hours post-larp workshops. It was probably the most expensive game in the history of Czech…
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…