The Interaction Engine
The interaction engine is a specific type of larp design where the primary focus is on enhancing playability by ensuring that every action generates new possibilities and emotional impact.
Six Levels of Larp Participation
A hierarchy of things for you as a participant to do and take care of for the larp to work and for all the participants to have the Experience they want.
For Design
A response to the recent article 'Against Design' by Widing & Nordwall, arguing for the essentialness of design in larp practice.
The Descriptor Model
How do you successfully communicate about your larp so as to to get the right participants with the right expectations? Here's a model for classifying and describing larps.
Defining Nordic Larp
'Nordic Larp' has a function. It still signals something to the public. These things might not be unique, or they might have other equivalents within other traditions, but to participants it still says something.
Rules, Trust, and Care: the Nordic Larper’s Risk Management Toolkit
This article discusses how to come to terms with the fact that risks at larps cannot be eliminated, and how to manage them instead.
Remember That Time… We Tried to Film a Larp
In this article, Sophia Seymour and Martine Svanevik discuss their experiences of filming a larp for a documentary.
Against Design
Stop using experience product delivery as the primary factor when evaluating larp projects.
Did We Wake?
Reflections on Before We Wake, a larp played in 2015, a larp which refused to let go, which insisted on being untangled…, and utterly unlike any other larp ever played.
Searching for Meaning in House of Craving
In the larp House of Craving, there is untapped potential for more multi-faceted work, more comprehensive immersion that would not sacrifice meaning on the altar of sensation.