Larp Theory

Painting Larp – Using Art Terms for Clarity

2015-04-01 0 Jacob Nielsen

When I design scenarios, I try to use the terminology from the Nordic larp discourse. But many of thes styles “available” confuse me and my players instead of clarifying what the larps are actually about. One of the problems is…

Theory

Now That We’ve Walked the Walk – Some New Additions to the Larp Vocabulary

2015-03-18 0 Bjørn Flindt Temte

Larp is traditionally participatory in nature. Fortunately, there’s been a great introspective and analytical tradition accompanying the continuing push against the ever moving boundaries of what’s possible and what’s been attempted. Yet it seems that our vocabulary has not grown…

Theory

Learning by Playing – Larp As a Teaching Method

2015-03-04 2 Myriel Balzer Julia Kurz

Tell me, and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand.Confucius The next generation of teachers will be expected to possess a broad spectrum of competencies and skills. They are faced with a…

Theory

Bleed: The Spillover Between Player and Character

2015-03-02 5 Sarah Lynne Bowman

Participants often engage in role-playing in order to step inside the shoes of another person in a fictional reality that they consider “consequence-free.” However, role-players sometimes experience moments where their real life feelings, thoughts, relationships, and physical states spill over…

Theory

Ingame or Offgame? Towards a Typology of Frame Switching Between In-character and Out-of-character

2015-02-25 0 Olga Vorobyeva

For the Moscow and St. Petersburg larp communities, continuous immersion into the game and into the character seems to be the central point of the larp process. Larp rules proclaim continuity of game, and players generally disapprove one’s going out…

Theory

Six Levels of Substitution

2015-01-28 0 Lauri Lukka

The Behaviour Substitution Model You are gliding over the parquet, in a constant battle over who’s in charge. You lock eyes and tighten your grip pulling your partner just a bit closer. Your posture and precise footwork radiate confidence. Other…

Documentation

Larp Design: Theory and Practice

2014-04-11 2 Petter Karlsson

In this great talk at Knutpunkt 2014, larpwright Eirik Fatland give a very good breadown of larp design. Why do people do the stuff they do at larps, and how can you make them do other, more interesting, things? Characters!…

Events

Larpwriters Winter Retreat 2014

2013-11-02 1 Johannes Axner

Bjarke Pedersen is organizing a retreat for experienced larpwrights to exchange experiences and ideas about larp theory. He has this to say about it: It came to me: If I could gather some of the brightest minds of larp for…

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