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Sarah Lynne Bowman

Sarah Lynne Bowman is a game scholar, designer, and organizer. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Game Design at Uppsala University, a founding member of their Transformative Play Initiative, as well as the Program Coordinator for Peace & Conflict Studies at Austin Community College. Bowman also teaches as adjunct faculty in English, Communication, and Humanities. McFarland Press published her dissertation in 2010 as The Functions of Role-playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems, and Explore Identity. She helped organize the Living Games Conference (2014, 2016, 2016) and the Role-playing and Simulation in Education Conference (2016, 2018). In addition, Bowman served as an editor for The Wyrd Con Companion Book from 2012-2015. She is currently a Coordinating Editor for the International Journal of Role-Playing and a managing editor at Nordiclarp.org.

http://www.sarahlynnebowman.com/

Techniques

A Matter of Trust – Larp and Consent Culture

2017-02-03 2 Sarah Lynne Bowman

Consent culture in larp communities is a subject of great interest in the current discourse. Larp scholar Sarah Lynne Bowman explores the subject.

Documentation

White Wolf’s Convention of Thorns – A Blockbuster Nordic Larp

2016-12-06 2 Sarah Lynne Bowman

Convention of Thorns is an official White Wolf Nordic-style Vampire: the Masquerade larp. The first run was held between October 27-30, 2016 at Zamek Książ, a castle in Poland. The larp was a joint collaboration between White Wolf and Dziobak…

Documentation

When Trends Converge – The New World Magischola Revolution

2016-07-04 0 Sarah Lynne Bowman

New World Magischola is an American blockbuster larp by Learn Larp LLC about students & faculty attending a wizard university in a new US magical universe.

Documentation

End of the Line: White Wolf’s First Official Nordic-Style Larp

2016-03-21 0 Sarah Lynne Bowman

End of the Line is the first official Nordic larp under the One World of Darkness produced by White Wolf and Odyssé since the IP was acquired by Paradox Entertainment.

Reviews

A Refreshing Take on Larp in Film: Review of Treasure Trapped

2015-08-13 0 Sarah Lynne Bowman

Treasure Trapped (2014), directed by Alex Taylor, is a documentary about larp made by the UK company Cosmic Joke. In a short article in the Wyrd Con Companion Book 2012, the filmmakers describe the background of the film’s journey. The…

Documentation

Love, Sex, Death, and Liminality: Ritual in Just a Little Lovin’

2015-07-13 2 Sarah Lynne Bowman

Just a Little Lovin' is commonly touted as one of the best Nordic larps ever designed by those who have played it. Originally written in 2011 by Tor Kjetil Edland and Hanne Grasmo, the larp explores the lives of people…

Theory

Bleed: The Spillover Between Player and Character

2015-03-02 5 Sarah Lynne Bowman

Participants often engage in role-playing in order to step inside the shoes of another person in a fictional reality that they consider “consequence-free.” However, role-players sometimes experience moments where their real life feelings, thoughts, relationships, and physical states spill over…

Theory

Post-larp Depression

2015-01-19 0 Sarah Lynne Bowman Evan Torner

Larp occupies a unique place among analog games, for it demands as much from players’ bodies as it does from their minds. It comes then as no surprise that many players find themselves in the situation of feeling confused, exhausted,…

Theory

Returning to the Real World

2014-12-08 3 Sarah Lynne Bowman

Debriefing After Role-playing Games Debriefing is a somewhat controversial topic in role-playing communities today. While some individuals feel that games should remain distinct from the mundane world and debriefing is an unnecessary complication, many role-players have grown concerned about difficulties…

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