Research Larping Anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s: A Look Into the Birth of Performance Studies and Experiential Ethnography 2024-04-08 0 Mike Pohjola The interaction between Richard Schechner and Victor Turner and how their experiments align with larp.
Techniques Play Boldly – Let Yourself Be Vulnerable 2024-04-05 0 Elin Dalstål Challenge yourself. Go beyond your comfort zone. Decide to do something you are not sure you can actually pull off. Try something new.
Tools Designing the Designer 2024-03-27 0 Juhana Pettersson Every aspect of larp can be designed for particular effect. This article argues that this applies to the person of the designer as well.
Tools Player Limitations and Accessibility in Larp 2024-03-18 0 Beatrix Livesey-Stephens Bjørn-Morten Vang Gundersen Accessibility is about looking out for people. Thinking about accessibility signals to players that they are explicitly included.
Theory Readdressing Larp as Commodity: How Do We Define Value When the Customer Is Always Right? 2024-03-15 0 Usva Seregina In this article, the author returns to the topic of larp as a commodity, taking a look at it in a context that is defined by numerous crises.
Documentation Together at Last: Romantic Paradox in a Not-Quite-Dystopian Future 2024-03-13 0 Sarah Lynne Bowman A larp set in a governmental facility in which volunteers are matchmade three times in order to find their Perfect Match.
Techniques Designing Power Dynamics Between Adults and Children in Larps 2024-03-04 0 Frederikke S. B. Høyer A practice-based approach utilized in edu-larp and leisure larps, including a mythical fantasy campaign.
Documentation Actual Plays of Live-Action Online Games (LAOGs) 2024-02-29 0 Gerrit Reininghaus Adrian Hermann Why make recordings of larps played online? Read about the reasons for doing so, the history of the activity, and the considerations involved.
Opinion History is Our Playground – On Playing with People’s Lives 2024-02-23 0 Kristel Nyberg How can we treat the lives of people who lived and died centuries ago with respect? How much context should we expect the players to study in order to respectfully portray lives of people in the past? In what detail…
Documentation Kickass Rococovid Kitsch: A Review of Disgraceful Proposals 2024-02-09 0 Thomas B. Finnish Rococo-punk-camp-queer larp.