Month: April 2024
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Out of Nothing, Something
In the larp Helicon, a specific kind of beauty spontaneously emerged when players’ actions collectively created a wonderfully coherent whole.
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On Co-creating Experiences – iFoL
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IFoL, standing for “Its Full of Larps”, is typically a long weekend, dedicated to short form larps and socializing.
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Strings and Rails: NPCs vs. Supporting Characters
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NPCs are tools for larp designers to set specific events in motion. Sometimes, the presence of NPCs with complex personalities is beneficial.
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Tears in the Rain
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We should care about documenting our larps: and we should find a way to not only preserve that history, but to make it publicly available.
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The Manifesto of Playing to Live Elsewise
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For there to be a future filled with play, there needs to be a huge shift in how we play. We are imaginers, world creators, loving, thriving beings filled with infinite possibilities to live and play elsewise.
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Larping Anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s: A Look Into the Birth of Performance Studies and Experiential Ethnography
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The interaction between Richard Schechner and Victor Turner and how their experiments align with larp.
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Play Boldly – Let Yourself Be Vulnerable
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Challenge yourself. Go beyond your comfort zone. Decide to do something you are not sure you can actually pull off. Try something new.
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Words of Advice from an Old Witch to Aging Larpers
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As we grow older as larpers, do we have to end up as a petrified version of our younger self? Inge-Mette Petersen with some wise advice.
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Experience vs. Imagination – Effects of Player Age
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It is often stated that imagination is the limit – that anyone can play any role – but is that the reality?
