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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Culture, Community, and Layers of Reality: Playing Allegiance
A pervasive larp about the Cold War and the diplomacy needed to stave off nuclear Armageddon.
Participatory Ritual Vocalization
How to use vocalization to create a sense of shared ritual in larps?
Basics of Efficient Larp Production
An alternative mode of production to the Infinite Hours of labor often spent in larp organizing and volunteering.
Terror and Warmth
An attempt at mapping the emotional landscape of transgressive larp experiences in an open manner without undue coyness.
Sketch Comedy Characters
As a player, I build my larp characters using the tools of sketch comedy. The style may be different, but the toolbox is the same. The crude basics offered by sketch comedy provide a functional basis on which to build…
Know Yourself
Once you understand what you can and can’t do, want and don’t want to do, it becomes easier to have good larp experiences and to co-create them with others.
The Death of Hamlet – Deconstructing the Character in Enlightenment in Blood
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…
Lobbying for the Dead – Vampire larp at the European Parliament
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.
The Last Ropecon at Dipoli
Ropecon is a Finnish roleplaying game convention. It’s also been something that’s been a part of my life for twenty years now. It was first organized in 1994, but I missed the initial years. I’m pretty sure my first Ropecon…
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