Listen 2 Your Heart Season 8: An Unexpectedly Bleedy Experiment
Reflections on an online larp adaptation of the popular Netflix dating series Love is Blind.
Yearly Archives: 2023
The 4 Cs of Larping Love
Romantic play should be based on four pillars: Context, Consent, Communication, and Chemistry.
Jaakko Stenros: Retrospective: Documentation, Community, and Research
In the Knutepunkt scene there is a history of larp designers and producers giving retrospectives, where they discuss all of their work. In this talk, here presented in two parts, Dr Stenros takes that format and expands it to other…
Elements of Larp Design
What is it larp designers actually design? How do players actually respond to design decisions? Are there any truths that apply to all the different kinds of larp design? Eirik Fatland presents his unpublished yet influential mid-level theory.
Bringing Larp to the Larpers
Katrine Wind has worked with local producers to re-run Daemon in different countries. In this presentation she shares her experiences together with some of the collaborators: Sandy Bailly who is the producer of the Belgian run and Mo Holkar who…
A Trip Beyond the House of Craving
Larp is sometimes thought of as a consensual hallucination, and this one was more hallucinogenic than most.
The Immortal Legacy
A documentation piece on the larp Gothic by Avalon Larp Studios. Based on true events featuring Romantic poets in a story of gothic horror.
Slow Larp Manifesto
There are larps that are not action-heavy, that don’t try to offer maximum amounts of drama or complicated plots. Lack of action or drama in a larp is often regarded as a design fault. We think Slow Larp should be…
Adding Larp to a Drama Teacher’s Curriculum – Year 1
Lindsay Wolgel is an professional actor and edu-larp enthusiast. She is currently the middle school drama teacher at a charter school in NYC. Learn about the ways she incorporated larp into her curriculum this past year, via in-class parties, a…
The Spirit of Christmas
Midwinter Revisited is a larp about a sweatshop where elves are forced to endure long hours of tedious work while having to pretend they're happy.
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