Thinking about stories and games and larp
Two big fears for organisers. No-one will show up Lots of people will show up and they will hate it Solution for 1 - not today. Solution for 2 - test and iterate. Yes, it's Learn-Build-Measure, it's lean, it's agile, it's testing assumption - and it's really tough to do in larp. How do you... Continue Reading →
Iva Vávrová again - this time she's "The Legion girl" not the dancing person. This is about walking in the snow. Legion explores an episode in Czech history, of volunteers who had to fight their way home through Russia. It's walking while playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3eZu5CxRfs To simulate marching 25 kilometres in the snow, we march them... Continue Reading →
A larp based on "The Marxist burlesque" interpretation of Hamlet. Inside Hamlet is almost now a series of larps, a tradition of larps based on the tale of Hamlet, with a design that lurches from theft and plagiarism of design ideas from earlier incarnations and other larps. This is as much of its story as... Continue Reading →
Day 2, and I've already missed one of the sessions I came here for. But this is two guys who are agile and lean startup coaches talking about the "lie of immersion". I mean, what's not to like. (Well, apart from the fact I use "immersion" to mean something entirely different to everyone else here...)... Continue Reading →
A side-conversation with a psychologist, a designer and a couple of other folk, which hit my professional life so directly, I wonder how much of my airfare I can get on to work's training budget... Maybe if I finish these scribblings into something coherent. Be there: ask the questions. "How are you feeling?" To use... Continue Reading →
Using sound and music in interesting fashions, we can tap into reactions and produce feelings in ways other media cannot. The design element of it is about the creation of these feelings intentionally. Anni Tolvanen talks about sound design in larp. Lack of design its *itself* a design choice, because your larp will have sounds.... Continue Reading →
This one I am here for on purpose. It's "How to hack for costume larps" - a cheat sheet for accessible costume larps. One of the speakers here is wearing layered black and a headscarf. *Now* I feel at home. Their disclaimers: Costuming is not reenactment. Costuming for larping is impression not accuracy Costuming is... Continue Reading →
As I was on the way to "You look like I want to play with you", I helped someone open up a room for her talk. Turns out is was to be about Valley of Shadow which "which heavily relied on blues dancing as a communication tool." I explained I knew the perfect people to... Continue Reading →
Caught a bit of this. largely by accident. Lessons from an Ars Magica table-top... A Kingdom-sim. Immersionist-simulationist in style. An epoch game! 15 real years in the playing. Three players, one GM, "all three to become king and die. " , in three eras of kingship, with players returning as important advisors to the realm.... Continue Reading →
John Shockley points out he is old, and has been lrping for 32 years, outside the UK for the last two and a half.... He noted a point of commonality - the spaces in between. Common to UK-tradition and Nordic tradition, he thinks. He has no answer. He wants a thinking. The fundamental assumption -... Continue Reading →
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