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Tonnin Stiflat: Season One – To Booze or Not to Booze…

2015-05-22 0 Johannes Axner

Setting Helsinki in the 1920’s: urbanization, the admiring gaze towards Europe; jazz and lipstick, daring women entering the public sphere; a country divided by the bitter civil war in 1918; prohibition and the tsunami of illegal alcohol and booze-related crimes.…

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The Golden Cobra Challenge: Amateur-Friendly Pervasive Freeform Design

2015-05-20 2 Evan Torner Whitney "Strix" Beltrán Emily Care Boss Jason Morningstar

Once upon a time – actually, at GenCon 2014 in Indianapolis, USA – several of us discovered a design problem for live freeform games. For the last five years, the independent role-playing game scene here in North America has run…

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Ticket to Atlantis – Fear, Love, Death, Life…

2015-05-15 0 Nadezhda Vechorek Vasily "Jolaf" Zakharov

Atlantis is a small town in Washington, USA. It’s surrounded by woods, has no phone line, and the mail service works poorly. The only way to come there is by the railway, and the train is the only way to…

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Baltic Warriors Tallinn

2015-05-11 0 Juhana Pettersson

I work as a larp producer in the Baltic Warriors project, and first game of our summer season was played last Saturday in Tallinn. It’s quite intimidating to go another country to do a game there. I had never even…

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Skoro Rassvet – Vodka, Tears and Dostoyevsky

2015-05-08 0 Tomáš Hampejs

Man will vanquish by his will and reason over the nature. He will understand that he is mortal that he has now hope for resurrection and he will accept death and he will accept it with satisfaction. He will be…

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The Blockbuster Formula – Brute Force Design in The Monitor Celestra and College of Wizardry

2015-05-06 4 Eirik Fatland Markus Montola

2013 and 2014 may be remembered as the conception of the Nordic blockbuster larp. Two ambitious larps – The Monitor Celestra in Sweden and College of Wizardry in Poland – succeeded in attracting an unprecedented level of international attention from…

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You’re in Charge of You

2015-05-04 1 Mike Pohjola

Let me tell you about how you can game master yourself in a larp. In a tabletop role-playing game it’s easy for the actual game master to work on pacing and theme and mood and so on, because she sees…

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Salon Moravia – Cabaret for Women Only

2015-05-01 0 Rädim Bondy

The door shut and he was gone. At that moment, Evžénie forgot his rank. But she would never forget his short moustache waving over her, how the lips under it were feverishly mumbling something in that repulsive language. How he…

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The Art of Steering – Bringing the Player and the Character Back Together

2015-04-29 7 Markus Montola Jaakko Stenros Eleanor Saitta

The rhetorics of Nordic larp often imply that role-players play in an intuitive fashion guided by the character, rarely or never contemplating their actions during the game. In reality, however, we are often keenly aware of what we are doing…

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Murder in Helsinki

2015-04-27 0 Juhana Pettersson

Tonnin stiflat is a Finnish larp campaign played in Helsinki in 2014. Consisting of three games, it was organized by the veteran city game designers Niina Niskanen and Simo Järvelä. The setting is Helsinki in the year 1927, and the…

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Design for young adult players: The relevance of designing for hope, agency and inclusion

Open Book: A Roadmap for Peer Editing

Improv Larp: How to Organize a Larp with the Least Amount of Effort

The Emotional Core

Workshop Design: A Guide

Tonnin Stiflat: Season One – To Booze or Not to Booze…

The Golden Cobra Challenge: Amateur-Friendly Pervasive Freeform Design

Ticket to Atlantis – Fear, Love, Death, Life…

Baltic Warriors Tallinn

Skoro Rassvet – Vodka, Tears and Dostoyevsky

The Blockbuster Formula – Brute Force Design in The Monitor Celestra and College of Wizardry

You’re in Charge of You

Salon Moravia – Cabaret for Women Only

The Art of Steering – Bringing the Player and the Character Back Together

Murder in Helsinki

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