Knutpunkt 2018

Just a Little Lovin’ USA 2017

2018-02-19 0 Evan Torner

This essay recounts the organizer experience of running the Norwegian larp Just a Little Lovin' in the USA in 2017. It specifically recounts challenges encountered with securing the site, managing controversy around the larp, and adapting it to US larpers.

Spades

The Larp Domino Effect

2018-02-14 0 Sarah Lynne Bowman

This article discusses some of the pros and cons of this larp domino effect, in which content from one area of the game spreads throughout the fiction like a wildfire as the result of emergent play. In larps where the…

Diamonds

Larp as Life

2018-02-13 0 Yaraslau I. Kot

Some hints and tips for larpers who have decided to go pro and make their living from larp.

Hearts

Immerton

2018-02-12 0 Maury Brown Sarah Lynne Bowman Quinn D Kat Jones Orli Nativ

Immerton is a 4-day larp written by women for women participants, taking place in a fictional society of women in a polytheistic goddess pantheon. Produced by Learn Larp, the game used a feminist sandbox design that emphasized rituals, relationships, collaborative…

Joker

More Than a Seat at the Feasting Table

2018-02-07 0 Jonaya Kemper

As Larp as a medium of experience design and performance begins to take traction globally as a source of entertainment, increasingly larp communities are facing a problem that cannot be swept aside any longer: there is a distinct lack of…

Diamonds

Scripted Larps and a Neo-Noir Experience

2018-02-06 0 Daniel P. Espinosa

A scripted larp is a larp structured through a pre-defined script with some theatrical appearance. It’s a kind of Play and Enjoy Watching larp. This article shows how this works, based on my personal experience as creator of Devil in…

Hearts

Freak Show, an Autopsy

2018-02-05 0 Nina Teerilahti

Freak Show, a larp held in an abandoned amusement park in Finland. The larp told the story of the last freak show and explored otherness through a romantic gothic horror setting. The participants played a family of outcasts and freaks…

Clubs

Playing Nasty Characters

2018-01-31 0 Elin Dalstål

Nasty characters can be important and necessary in larp; and then somebody has to play them. This article looks at the practical issues of taking on such roles; at the social and psychological implications of this kind of play; and…

Diamonds

The Death of Hamlet – Deconstructing the Character in Enlightenment in Blood

2018-01-30 0 Juhana Pettersson

In the 2017 larp Enlightenment in Blood, we created a new form of character creation tool using a software tool called Larpweaver. It’s based on the idea the larp can provide a selection of elements for the player to choose…

Hearts

Keeping the Candles Lit, When the Light Has Gone Out

2018-01-29 0 Shoshana Kessock

Eclipses are funny things. They stop the world, and we all look up together, watching that constant sun slowly disappear before our very eyes. And together, we wonder, for just a moment, if the light will ever come back.

123

Tags

Archives