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[[File:Mixing_desk_of_larpMixing desk of larp.png|right|thumb|The Mixing Desk of Larp version 34, revised after revised after [[Knutepunkt 2013Larpwriter Summer School]] [[2014]]]]
'''''The Mixing Desk of Larp''' is a framework for organizing your thoughts about larp design. Look at it as a pedagogical tool more than a theory of larp design – it is an aid in visualizing the most important design choices a larpwright makes.''
For the [[Knutepunkt-books]] for [[Knutepunkt 2013]] the article ''The Mixing Desk of Larp'' was written by [[Martin Nielsen]] and [[Martin Eckhoff Andresen]] was written with updated names and descriptions.
=The fadersFaders=
Of course, there are endless numbers of faders that could possibly have been adjusted on the Mixing Desk of Larp. Here are some of the most important parameters that can be adjusted when making a larp. The ambition is that other larpwriters will add their own faders and remove the ones they don’t find fruitful when using this framework.
* [[360º]]
==Character creation responsibilityCreation Responsibility==
''Organizer vs. player''
==Runtime game masteringGame Mastering==
''Active vs. passive''
Some organizers consider their job done when the larp has started; then, they leave everything in the hands of the players. Others influence the game in different ways as it goes along. Are you an active or a passive game master when the game has started, during ''runtime''? Game mastering might also be of different sorts: the discrete ones, like sending instructed players into the game, or the extremely intrusive ones, like stopping the game and instructing the players to do a scene again differently.
==Story engineEngine==
''Collaborativity vs. competivity''
What motivates the players in your game? Having something to win or a goal to obtain, be it individually or collectively, can be an easy way to motivate players, especially for beginners. This is the competition approach. On the other hand, you often get more interesting stories and stronger player experiences when the players collaborate – for example, by deliberately getting their characters into trouble, i.e. [[Playing to lose|playing to lose]].
==Loyalty to settingSetting==
''Playability vs. plausibility''
==Communication styleStyle==
''Physical vs. verbal''
==Representation of themeTheme==
''Abstraction vs. simulation''
''Intrusive vs. discrete''
[[Meta-technique|Meta-techniques]] s are techniques for giving information to the players, but not the characters, during the game. Examples can be “inner” [[monologues]] that are played out during the larp. The players can hear these, the characters cannot, but nonetheless, they can be an aid for creating stronger drama. If meta-techniques are used in a game, they might be intrusive or discrete. Examples of intrusive meta-techniques are techniques that force all other players to stop while it happens, while a more discrete technique might be, for example, having access to a special room where players can go to act out scenes from the past or the future. This fader illustrates the combination of the amount of meta-techniques used and their degree of intrusiveness.
* [[Meta-technique]]
==Player pressurePressure==
''Hardcore vs. pretense''
There are some things in larp that are difficult to play out. Hunger, violence, sleep deprivation, drinking, sex and drug use might be examples. If you want to include these elements in your game, how do you do it? Do you put the pressure on the players as well as the characters by using with hardcore methods such as real alcohol, real food deprivation, and waking people at night? Do you shelter the players from the pressure on the characters by using replacements like boffer swords, fake alcohol, and telling the players to pretend to be hungry or sleep deprived? Hungry players will, of course, feel what it is like to be hungry, but their ability to role-play and enjoy other aspects of the game might be hampered.
=Open frameworkFramework=
The Mixing Desk of Larp is a work in progress. It’s a pedagogical tool aimed for presenting and structuring some of the most important design choices of larp in a convenient form. There are plenty of other faders that could be part of the Mixing Desk, and the framework is open to extensions.
* Degree of pervasiveness
=Video presentationPresentation=
Video presentation about the Mixing Desk of larp with [[Martin Eckhoff Andresen]] from [[Nordic Larp Talks]] [[2013]].
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=Source=
* [http://larpschool.blogspot.no/p/programme.html Programme for Larpwriter Summer School 2012] =External links=[http://larpschool.blogspot.no/p/resources.html Filmed fader-talks from the Larpwriter Summer School 2012] [http://nordiclarp.org/mixing_desk_of_larp.psd Photoshop File for editing your own Mixing Desk]
=External Links=* [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkcfpOLbv_dr2SI2iZk6Dnz9v30oLeCaU Filmed fader-talks from the Larpwriter Summer School 2013]* [http://larpschool.blogspot.no/p/resources.html Filmed fader-talks from the Larpwriter Summer School 2012]* [http://nordiclarp.org/mixing_desk_of_larp.psd Photoshop File for editing your own Mixing Desk]* [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24803335/The%20Mixing%20Desk%20of%20Larp.pdf The article about the Mixing Desk from the 2013 Knutepunkt-book]
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