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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.

Joker

Playing Safe?

2018-01-22 9 Martine Svanevik Simon Brind

A number of high profile articles and discussions about safety in Nordic larp seem to imply that safety has become the primary concern for larp design. This article interrogates that implication by a series of interviews with larp designers, and…

Knutpunkt 2018

All Cards on the Table

2018-01-22 0 Annika Waern Johannes Axner

The theme of this year's Knutpunkt is shuffling the deck. With this theme, the organizers aim to rethink some of the ways in which the Nordic larp conference has traditionally been staged and perceived. Inspired by the theme we took…

Opinion

Bad Larp Design: Choking Hazard

2018-01-18 5 Elin Dalstål

When someone seems to be choking or having difficulties breathing at a larp, you should always assume the situation is real and go to their immediate aid. Designers should never, ever design larp mechanics that require participants to role-play that…

Documentation

Tenement 67: Tales from the Tenements

2017-12-04 0 Simon Brind

How a UK larp’s take on dystopian cyberpunk is learning from Nordic larp design principles “One day you will see the truth, you will learn to understand the patterns and numbers in the data. When God left the analogue world…

Techniques

Larp Tools: Pronoun Markers and Correction Mechanics

2017-12-01 2 Maury Brown

In role-play, players and their characters do not always use the same pronouns. Some players use role-play to explore personal questions of gender identity, using the alibi of the character to give them a chance to try on a new…

Documentation

BAPHOMET – The Road to Damnation

2017-11-15 0 Bjarke Pedersen Linda Udby

BAPHOMET was a larp about personal horror with the themes terror, lust, desire, power and loss of control; a group descended into madness together.

Events

Living Games Conference 2018

2017-10-30 0 Johannes Axner

The third Living Games Conference will take place May 17-20, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Inspired by the Nordic Knutpunkt tradition, the conference focuses on the academic and practical aspects of larp, including scholarship, design, and…

Documentation

Immerton: A Fire in the Desert

2017-10-28 1 Kanane Jones

I knew as soon as I heard about Immerton that I wanted to go. I’d been to one other women-only larp — the U.S. run of Mad About the Boy (2012) — and while it was some of what I…

Theory

Tensions between Transmedia Fandom and Live-Action Role-Play

2017-10-23 1 Evan Torner

Larping in a franchise means players are familiar with the material. Yet fan practice may contradict larp's flexibility. How to address these tensions?

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Lobbying for the Dead – Vampire larp at the European Parliament

Playing Safe?

All Cards on the Table

Bad Larp Design: Choking Hazard

Tenement 67: Tales from the Tenements

Larp Tools: Pronoun Markers and Correction Mechanics

BAPHOMET – The Road to Damnation

Living Games Conference 2018

Immerton: A Fire in the Desert

Tensions between Transmedia Fandom and Live-Action Role-Play

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