Yearly Archives: 2018

Scripted Larps and a Neo-Noir Experience

2018-02-06 0 Daniel P. Espinosa

A scripted larp is a larp structured through a pre-defined script with some theatrical appearance. It’s a kind of Play and Enjoy Watching larp. This article shows how this works, based on my personal experience as creator of Devil in…

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Freak Show, an Autopsy

2018-02-05 0 Nina Teerilahti

Freak Show, a larp held in an abandoned amusement park in Finland. The larp told the story of the last freak show and explored otherness through a romantic gothic horror setting. The participants played a family of outcasts and freaks…

Documentation

Epiphany – A Collaborative Mage: the Ascension Larp

2018-02-01 1 Yeonsoo Julian Kim Morgan Nuncio Jen Wong

Epiphany was a collaborative larp based loosely on Mage: The Ascension that took place December 15-17, 2017 in Austin, Texas. The larp was set during a weekend-long spiritual retreat where mentors help initiate mages navigate their Awakenings and come into…

Clubs

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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