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Creating Play in the Magical Classroom: Part 1

2016-05-13 0 Johanna Koljonen

Playing a professor is great fun. You have the perfect excuse to play an over-the-top character and the classroom setting offers an entertaining combination of performance, run-time game mastering, and attentive, game-creating play.

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Workshop Practice, in Practice – A Functional Workshop Structure Method

2016-04-20 0 Mo Holkar

The pre-game workshop tradition in Nordic larp is mostly oral, with little written material. People take part in workshops as players, then borrow and develop ideas from those experiences to construct workshops for their own larps. So I thought it…

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Russian Roulette in Practice

2014-06-25 0 Martin Buchtík

This article describes the selection process used for high-resolution dramatic larp called Skoro Rassvet [Breaking Dawn] >(2012, 15 players). Its advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Knowing that we could take the risk because the number of potential candidates exceeded the…

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Culture Calibration in Pre-larp Workshops

2014-04-23 2 Martin Nielsen

With a few exceptions, all larps take place in a set culture. This can be either a fictional culture or a culture based on the real world. For the previous larps where I have been part of the organizer team,…

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Larp Design: Theory and Practice

2014-04-11 2 Petter Karlsson

In this great talk at Knutpunkt 2014, larpwright Eirik Fatland give a very good breadown of larp design. Why do people do the stuff they do at larps, and how can you make them do other, more interesting, things? Characters!…

Documentation

Spatial Design – Experiences

2014-04-11 1 Petter Karlsson

How can we create a spatial experience with which we design the player experience? Jonas Trier-Knudsen & Troels Barkholt-Spangsbo hosted this session at Knutpunkt 2014 where several organizer shared their best practices and experiences in short talks. The video is…

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Reddit Interview Technique for Fleshing Out Characters

2013-03-12 1 Johannes Axner

IAmAFiction is a subreddit meant to be used for fleshing out fictional characters through online interviewing If you are working on developing an invented character for creative writing, roleplay, or pure novelty, this is the place to expose your character…

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Creating Play in the Magical Classroom: Part 1

Workshop Practice, in Practice – A Functional Workshop Structure Method

Russian Roulette in Practice

Culture Calibration in Pre-larp Workshops

Larp Design: Theory and Practice

Spatial Design – Experiences

Reddit Interview Technique for Fleshing Out Characters

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