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Murder in Helsinki

2015-04-27 0 Juhana Pettersson

Tonnin stiflat is a Finnish larp campaign played in Helsinki in 2014. Consisting of three games, it was organized by the veteran city game designers Niina Niskanen and Simo Järvelä. The setting is Helsinki in the year 1927, and the…

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Saint Summer – A 60’s Tale of Music and Hope

2015-04-24 1 Olga Shovman Mark Shovman

Genre: Rock opera Theme: Utopia and its Fall Setting: Rock’n’Roll festival in the late 1960’s, US Sources: Aldous Huxley ‘The Island’, Jesus Christ Superstar, Platoon, Hair. The Messiah has been gone for two millennia. The times of rock star messiahs…

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Nemefrego 2014 – Old School Fantasy with New Ideas

2015-04-03 0 Morten Kjærgaard Tellefsen Frederikke S. B. Høyer

Since 1995, the Danish non-profit organization Einherjerne has made one large fantasy larp in the summer with 100-300 participants. Every larp has built on the experiences of the earlier years, with core elements of the larp being a village surrounded…

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Morgenrøde – A Game at the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius

2015-03-27 0 Anders Ebbehøj Jonas Trier-Knudsen Klaus Meier-Olsen

Morgenrøde (Morning Red) was our take on the Danish hippie movement. Through three acts, 31 players portrayed the peak of the Danish hippie community and their endeavors to establish Denmark’s first grand commune: Morgenrøde – the utopia of their dreams.…

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On Publicity and Privacy – or: How Do You Do Your Documentation?

2015-03-25 0 James Lórien Macdonald

In 2014, I conducted a survey about attitudes towards photography and video in larp. I got nearly 500 responses from many different countries, and while I would love to publish the full results here, they’re a bit long for the…

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Moon – A Firefly Larp Not Exactly about Firefly

2015-03-20 0 Jindřich Mašek Martin Buchtík

How we created a Firefly larp, not exactly about Firefly One day the world became too small for all of us. Then we started to settle other planets. Terraformation begun. Things changed. Lot of us became adventures, seeking freedom and…

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Mare Incognitum – Trapped in the Ice

2015-03-13 0 Olle Nyman Sebastian Utbult

The Fate of the M/S Lyckan Our story took place aboard the M/S Lyckan, a former German navy freighter with a horrific history of atrocities. A research expedition to Kirkenes in Norway had unearthed a strange statuette, which was brought…

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Looking at You – Larp, Documentation and Being Watched

2015-03-11 0 Juhana Pettersson

So far, Nordic larp has produced two games that have become international news stories that all kinds of sites cannibalize and copy from each other: the Danish 2013 rerun of Panopticorp, and the Polish-Danish Harry Potter game College of Wizardry.…

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Livsgäld – Fantasy with Gender Elements

2015-03-06 0 Simon Svensson

Livsgäld, translated roughly as "the price you pay for your life", was a low-fantasy larp held in November, 2014, in Halmstad, Sweden. The larp was played in Swedish, had 40 participants, three non-player characters and four organizers. The spots for…

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Last Will – Make Us Your Slaves, but Feed Us

2015-02-27 0 Annica Strand Frida Gamero Sofia Stenler

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, “ Make us your slaves, but feed us. Last Will is a larp on the subject of a fading human dignity in a world run…

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