Know Yourself
Once you understand what you can and can’t do, want and don’t want to do, it becomes easier to have good larp experiences and to co-create them with others.
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Emotions as Skilled Work
This text is focused on the social and cultural aspects of emotion work and on our understanding of the skills involved in the context of larp.
Metareflection
When larping, we are often aiming to feel immersed. This article shows how other internal processes are active as well when we are roleplaying.
Maps, Loops and Larp
This article outlines a framework for analyzing how players decide on their actions moment to moment, as well as on longer time scales throughout the larp.
Leaving the Magic Circle: Larp and Aftercare
The transition from larp to everyday life can be messy sometimes. Some thoughts on aftercare in a larp context: how to do it and why.
Solmukohta 2020 Summary
Solmukohta 2020, the Finnish edition of the international Nordic larp conference Knutepunkt, is over and you can find all the talks here.
Review of Larp Design: Creating Role-Play Experiences
The gorgeous and impressive Larp Design book is a collection of practical and useful essays for beginners as well as experienced designers.
Overview of Edu-Larp Conference 2019
Edu-larp can be described as implementing live-action role-playing games in formal or informal educational contexts, “used to impart pre-determined pedagogical or didactic content” (Balzer & Kurz 2015). The aim of the Edu-larp Conference 2019 was to present and discuss recent…
On the Commodification of Larp
An exploration of the development of larp in the face of a growing tendency of contemporary culture to become commodified.
Vedergällningen, the Vengeance: a Viking Horror Larp
Vedergällningen was a Viking horror larp in Sweden focusing on the relationships between humans, their community, and their gods.