Monthly Archives: January 2018

Playing Nasty Characters

2018-01-31 0 Elin Dalstål

Nasty characters can be important and necessary in larp; and then somebody has to play them. This article looks at the practical issues of taking on such roles; at the social and psychological implications of this kind of play; and…

Diamonds

The Death of Hamlet – Deconstructing the Character in Enlightenment in Blood

2018-01-30 0 Juhana Pettersson

In the 2017 larp Enlightenment in Blood, we created a new form of character creation tool using a software tool called Larpweaver. It’s based on the idea the larp can provide a selection of elements for the player to choose…

Hearts

Keeping the Candles Lit, When the Light Has Gone Out

2018-01-29 0 Shoshana Kessock

Eclipses are funny things. They stop the world, and we all look up together, watching that constant sun slowly disappear before our very eyes. And together, we wonder, for just a moment, if the light will ever come back.

Diamonds

Safety and Calibration Design Tools and Their Uses

2018-01-24 3 Maury Brown

Safety & Calibration techniques are important design tools that help diverse players access your larp and create stories together. This article offers three Safety & Calibration Tools that have been in use since June 2016 and are now used internationally…

Hearts

Lobbying for the Dead – Vampire larp at the European Parliament

2018-01-23 0 Juhana Pettersson

Organizing the first ever larp played partially at the European Parliament gave the opportunity to explore design concepts such as indexical larp, where the fiction of the larp corresponds to actual reality as closely as possible.

Joker

Playing Safe?

2018-01-22 9 Martine Svanevik Simon Brind

A number of high profile articles and discussions about safety in Nordic larp seem to imply that safety has become the primary concern for larp design. This article interrogates that implication by a series of interviews with larp designers, and…

Knutpunkt 2018

All Cards on the Table

2018-01-22 0 Annika Waern Johannes Axner

The theme of this year's Knutpunkt is shuffling the deck. With this theme, the organizers aim to rethink some of the ways in which the Nordic larp conference has traditionally been staged and perceived. Inspired by the theme we took…

Opinion

Bad Larp Design: Choking Hazard

2018-01-18 5 Elin Dalstål

When someone seems to be choking or having difficulties breathing at a larp, you should always assume the situation is real and go to their immediate aid. Designers should never, ever design larp mechanics that require participants to role-play that…

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