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Learning by Playing – Larp As a Teaching Method

2015-03-04 2 Myriel Balzer Julia Kurz

Tell me, and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand.Confucius The next generation of teachers will be expected to possess a broad spectrum of competencies and skills. They are faced with a…

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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…

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Ingame or Offgame? Towards a Typology of Frame Switching Between In-character and Out-of-character

2015-02-25 0 Olga Vorobyeva

For the Moscow and St. Petersburg larp communities, continuous immersion into the game and into the character seems to be the central point of the larp process. Larp rules proclaim continuity of game, and players generally disapprove one’s going out…

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Six Levels of Substitution

2015-01-28 0 Lauri Lukka

The Behaviour Substitution Model You are gliding over the parquet, in a constant battle over who’s in charge. You lock eyes and tighten your grip pulling your partner just a bit closer. Your posture and precise footwork radiate confidence. Other…

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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,…

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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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Learning by Playing – Larp As a Teaching Method

Bleed: The Spillover Between Player and Character

Ingame or Offgame? Towards a Typology of Frame Switching Between In-character and Out-of-character

Six Levels of Substitution

Post-larp Depression

Returning to the Real World

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