Monthly Archives: February 2018

The Narrative Experience

2018-02-28 0 Jesper Heebøll Arbjørn

The narrative experience is defined as a practical approach to larp design focused on narrativism. Through study of narrative inclined players and the toolbox of narrative concepts that are applied in contemporary larp design and larp culture the article attempts…

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Group Improvisation of Larp Rituals

2018-02-27 0 Susanne Vejdemo Elli Garperian

This article describes a 30-minute workshop which teaches on-the-spot collective improvisation of fake rituals for larp purposes.

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Waiting Before the Beginning

2018-02-26 0 Simon James Pettitt

This article looks at the waiting time before a game or a larp. It sees this time as part of the experience, and claims, that if we design this time properly, we will help our players be in a proper…

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Play to Lift, not Just to Lose

2018-02-21 0 Susanne Vejdemo

If we can trust that other players will Lift us to wins, we can focus on Playing to Lose. This article argues that the two techniques - Play to Lift, Play to Lose - are often most effective when used…

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Designing the Volunteer Experience

2018-02-20 0 Suus Mutsaers

When producing larps we often rely on the help of volunteers. But we are currently not actively looking at the volunteer experience from a design perspective. This article proposes several ways of looking at volunteer experiences and the way we…

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Just a Little Lovin’ USA 2017

2018-02-19 0 Evan Torner

This essay recounts the organizer experience of running the Norwegian larp Just a Little Lovin' in the USA in 2017. It specifically recounts challenges encountered with securing the site, managing controversy around the larp, and adapting it to US larpers.

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The Larp Domino Effect

2018-02-14 0 Sarah Lynne Bowman

This article discusses some of the pros and cons of this larp domino effect, in which content from one area of the game spreads throughout the fiction like a wildfire as the result of emergent play. In larps where the…

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Larp as Life

2018-02-13 0 Yaraslau I. Kot

Some hints and tips for larpers who have decided to go pro and make their living from larp.

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Immerton

2018-02-12 0 Maury Brown Sarah Lynne Bowman Quinn D Kat Jones Orli Nativ

Immerton is a 4-day larp written by women for women participants, taking place in a fictional society of women in a polytheistic goddess pantheon. Produced by Learn Larp, the game used a feminist sandbox design that emphasized rituals, relationships, collaborative…

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More Than a Seat at the Feasting Table

2018-02-07 0 Jonaya Kemper

As Larp as a medium of experience design and performance begins to take traction globally as a source of entertainment, increasingly larp communities are facing a problem that cannot be swept aside any longer: there is a distinct lack of…

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