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'''Simon Brind'''  is a writer, game designer, and PhD student. He is researching ‘Combat Narratology: Strategies for the resolution of narrative crisis in participatory fiction’ at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, (UWE), Bristol; primarily he is interested in the tension between the larp writer's vision and what the players make of it. He has been a larper since 1985 and a larpwright since 1986. He is a founding member of Avalon Larp Studio.
 
'''Simon Brind'''  is a writer, game designer, and PhD student. He is researching ‘Combat Narratology: Strategies for the resolution of narrative crisis in participatory fiction’ at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, (UWE), Bristol; primarily he is interested in the tension between the larp writer's vision and what the players make of it. He has been a larper since 1985 and a larpwright since 1986. He is a founding member of Avalon Larp Studio.
  
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===Larpwright (designer/co-designer/writer)===
 
===Larpwright (designer/co-designer/writer)===
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*''System two'' (1986)
 
*''System two'' (1986)
 
*''The Dream Game'' (1989-1992))
 
*''The Dream Game'' (1989-1992))
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*''The Quota - Border Crossing'' (2017)
 
*''The Quota - Border Crossing'' (2017)
 
*''The Quota'' (2018)
 
*''The Quota'' (2018)
*''Where Androids Die'' (character writer) (2018)  
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*''Where Androids Die'' (character writer) (2018)
 
*''Avalon'' (2018)
 
*''Avalon'' (2018)
  
 
==Books==
 
==Books==
* Author [[The Witchard's Almanack]] (2018)
 
* Editor: [[The Peckforton Papers - Essays from four decades of UK larp]] (2018)
 
* Editor: [[Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories]] (2017)
 
* Author [[The Witchards Almanack]] (2017)
 
  
== Articles on Larp ==
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*Author [[The Witchard's Almanack]] (2018)
* ''Playing Safe?'' - article in Re-shuffling the deck - The Knutpunkt 2018 printed companion (2018)
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*Editor: [[The Peckforton Papers - Essays from four decades of UK larp]] (2018)
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*Editor: [[Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories]] (2017)
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*Author [[The Witchards Almanack]] (2017)
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==Articles on Larp==
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*''Playing Safe?'' - article in Re-shuffling the deck - The Knutpunkt 2018 printed companion (2018)
  
 
*''Response to Ian Andrews'' - an article about player agency in story led larp in [[Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories]] (2017)
 
*''Response to Ian Andrews'' - an article about player agency in story led larp in [[Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories]] (2017)
  
* ''Prebleed is totally a thing'' - article in [[Larp Realia - Analysis, Design, and Discussions of Nordic Larp]] (2016)
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*''Prebleed is totally a thing'' - article in [[Larp Realia - Analysis, Design, and Discussions of Nordic Larp]] (2016)
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*''College of Wizardry - part 1'' - a review of College of Wizardry 3 in [[Larp.Guide]] (2015)
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==Talks==
  
*''College of Wizardry - part 1'' - a review of College of Wizardry 3 in [[Larp.Guide]] (2015)
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*''Using lies to tell the truth: Player agency on epic scale'' - [[Larp Design Conference 2016]]
  
== Talks ==
 
* ''Using lies to tell the truth: Player agency on epic scale'' - [[Larp Design Conference 2016]]
 
 
[[Category:People]]
 
[[Category:People]]

Revision as of 14:58, 5 January 2019

Simon Brind
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Organization

Simon Brind is a writer, game designer, and PhD student. He is researching ‘Combat Narratology: Strategies for the resolution of narrative crisis in participatory fiction’ at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, (UWE), Bristol; primarily he is interested in the tension between the larp writer's vision and what the players make of it. He has been a larper since 1985 and a larpwright since 1986. He is a founding member of Avalon Larp Studio.

Editor of Once Upon a Nordic Larp... Twenty Years of Playing Stories (2017) together with Martine Svanevik, Linn Carin Andreassen, Elin Nilsen, and Grethe Sofie Bulterud Strand.

Games

Larpwright (designer/co-designer/writer)

  • System two (1986)
  • The Dream Game (1989-1992))
  • Deci Underground Campaign (1991-1992)
  • Zombie: The Gibbering (1994)
  • A Winter’s Tale (1999)
  • Dreams and Shadows (1999-2002)
  • The Washing of Three Tides (2001)
  • Into the Woods (2001)
  • Bel’s Faire (2002)
  • Cheerleaders of Satan in Bondage (2002)
  • Odyssey (2010-2016)
  • "Freakshow" (2017)
  • The Quota - Border Crossing (2017)
  • The Quota (2018)
  • Where Androids Die (character writer) (2018)
  • Avalon (2018)

Books

Articles on Larp

  • Playing Safe? - article in Re-shuffling the deck - The Knutpunkt 2018 printed companion (2018)
  • College of Wizardry - part 1 - a review of College of Wizardry 3 in Larp.Guide (2015)

Talks