Dinner Warfare
Creating subtle but strong emotional pressure based on specific relations when designing eating situations in larps.
Larp Design
Good Cakes, Bad Cakes: Character and Contact Design as a Factor of Personal Game Experience
Compared to free player-driven contact creation, contact design by the organisers is a stronger promise to me and other players struggling with uncertainty on whether we too will be relevant and included.
Building Player Chemistry
This article By Nór Hernø, introduces a workshop tool to help build player chemistry before a larp.
Odysseus: In Search of a Clockwork Larp
Running a clockwork larp is a fool’s errand, because the very point of a clockwork is interdependence, and the very point of a larp is agency. The Odysseus team invested a massive amount of skilled labour to take this paradox…
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.
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.
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.
How to Do Night Scenes
There is so much potential in night-time scenes. Who wouldn't love to be dragged from their bed by a monster, or woken by a ghost's gentle touch? But, they tend to turn anticlimactic. Here's a solution that can get these…
Strings and Rails: NPCs vs. Supporting Characters
NPCs are tools for larp designers to set specific events in motion. Sometimes, the presence of NPCs with complex personalities is beneficial.