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Designer and organiser reflections. Part of a collection of articles written as companion pieces to the larp conference Knutpunkt 2018.

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Just a Little Lovin’ USA 2017

2018-02-19 0 Evan Torner

This essay recounts the organizer experience of running the Norwegian larp Just a Little Lovin' in the USA in 2017. It specifically recounts challenges encountered with securing the site, managing controversy around the larp, and adapting it to US larpers.

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Immerton

2018-02-12 0 Maury Brown Sarah Lynne Bowman Quinn D Kat Jones Orli Nativ

Immerton is a 4-day larp written by women for women participants, taking place in a fictional society of women in a polytheistic goddess pantheon. Produced by Learn Larp, the game used a feminist sandbox design that emphasized rituals, relationships, collaborative…

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Freak Show, an Autopsy

2018-02-05 0 Nina Mutik

Freak Show, a larp held in an abandoned amusement park in Finland. The larp told the story of the last freak show and explored otherness through a romantic gothic horror setting. The participants played a family of outcasts and freaks…

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Keeping the Candles Lit, When the Light Has Gone Out

2018-01-29 0 Shoshana Kessock

Eclipses are funny things. They stop the world, and we all look up together, watching that constant sun slowly disappear before our very eyes. And together, we wonder, for just a moment, if the light will ever come back.

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Lobbying for the Dead – Vampire larp at the European Parliament

2018-01-23 0 Juhana Pettersson

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.

Just a Little Lovin’ USA 2017

Immerton

Freak Show, an Autopsy

Keeping the Candles Lit, When the Light Has Gone Out

Lobbying for the Dead – Vampire larp at the European Parliament

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