Another view from the crew: Dani Mines this time. "A LRP set in a detention centre sat on the border between England and Wales for those trying to leave England. There were attendees from 12 countries, and 70 participants overall." "I'm going to ramble about my roles a bit. Starting from the more minor and... Continue Reading →
Playing the Quota: guest post by Julian Lynch
First post I've seen from the player perspective. "So, the Quota... it was a very interesting experience. Type 2 fun indeed." "For those who don't know it was a very Nordic lrp based around being in an immigration detention centre trying to get out of an economically and politically collapsing England and into Wales. The... Continue Reading →
Crewing The Quota: guest post by Charlie Holdway
Another set of Facebook posts, this time by Charlie Holdway. Starting with this, written during the event, which I absolutely love... "Crewing Quota. Report so far. Intense. Holy shit some people play hard. Further info later. May video journal." Post 2 - post-event. "These are the characters I played (except in Black Box scenarios) for... Continue Reading →
Crewing The Quota: guest post by Sarah Cook.
This is a couple of posts by Sarah Cook on her experiences of crewing The Quota which I've nailed together. Post 1 "Back from crewing for @The Quota, a Broken Dreams larp and Avalon Larp studio game where I was three distinctly, differently awful people. Unlike my usual awful people, none of them were funny characters. There... Continue Reading →
The Quota: guest posts
Helly and Rob came for dinner and we talked about bleak Nordic prison larps. I said "shall we do one?" and Helly said "Actually, I have this idea..." So said Simon Brind. The Quota was "a live role-play experience designed to explore some of the pressures and crisis points experienced by refugees and migrants" I've... Continue Reading →
Odyssey “retrospective”
In my professional life, we try and have a meeting after every chunk of every project to work out what happened, so next time we can improve what we can improve, and revel in what went well. There's been a flattering number of paeans of praise for Odyssey - not all of them written by me - and... Continue Reading →
The Game Of Roses 6: Start the examination
"Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!" The Life and Death of Richard the Third (V.5) I've just knocked out some thoughts here to have somewhere to put them. There's a lot of good, a bit of mixed and a bit of not so good. Good.... Continue Reading →
The Game of Roses 4: Levers
"But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive, nor take deep rooting from bastard slips, nor lay any fast foundation." Wisdom 4: 3-5 (King James version.) Last night, we had a meeting covering our progress with crew recruitment, and a little more work on the skeleton of the event. We're looking at the... Continue Reading →
The Game of Roses 1: early blogging
"I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within." The Life and Death of Richard the Third (I.3) I promised myself I'd blog the process of developing the game; a promise that didn't last as long as it might have done. However, I do have some drafts - these are verbatim from earlier this year, and mainly... Continue Reading →
The Game of Roses 5: A month of troublesome Tudors
But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them? The Life and Death of Richard the Third (IV.2) Poor form, really... We've had three meetings and not a blog post to record them. I'll get the current state of the game notes from Duncan and stick... Continue Reading →
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