A larp is not a work of art.
It is a series of works, a cascade, each work inspiring the next.
There is the concept as it lives in the minds, conversations, whiteboards, and notepads of the larpwrights. The idea of the larp-to-be. But it is not the larp.
There might be a larpscript, neatly written to enable anyone to run the larp. A particular expression of the idea of the larp-to-be. But this, also, is not the larp.
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The following notes should be useful for people who have attended the Ritual Improv course and want to teach the same techniques to others. It won’t make much sense for those who haven’t.
Ritual improv at Knutpunkt 2010. Photo: Li Xin
This is larp. It’s improvised. I’ll make mistakes. You’ll make mistakes. You’ll forget parts of the back story. You’ll speak in a voice that’s not appropriate for your character. You’ll mispronounce words that your character knows perfectly. You’ll break a cultural taboo inadvertently. You’ll forget the name of your childhood friend.
And that’s OK. Continue reading Let’s make mistakes together (a pre-larp pep talk)
Every larp design, and the activity of designing larps itself, can be divided into two inseperable halves: (1) the system or procedure, which I’ll call “frame”, and (2) the components or unique elements inside the system, which I’ll call “canvas”.
(video courtesy of Nordic Larp Talks)
Full text and images: Continue reading Does Larp Design Matter? (Nordic Larp Talks 2014, video + transcript)
What is it larp designers actually design? Watch me try to answer this, and other hot-button questions of immediate practical concern in this 45-minute talk I did at Knutpunkt 2014.
Continue reading Elements of Larp Design (video + slides)
So you’ve had an intense larp experience, you’re feeling a bundle of emotion (positive, negative or both). What do you do to land? I asked this question on facebook, and received some 40 brilliant, and diverse, responses. Here they are:
Continue reading Landing after an intense larp
Or: why can it be so difficult to achieve a satisfying conclusion to a larp, and what can we do to change that?
Aristotle (Greek philosopher) was the first to describe the structure underlying most dramatic storytelling. It goes like this: Continue reading Dealing with the Aristotelian Curse
At this years larpwriter summer school, I had the chance to playtest an insanely cool larp with the working title The Bank Robbery. As a preparation for the larp, players stand around a table, using a schematic – the floorplan of a bank – to plan the great heist our characters will attempt.
The actual roleplaying begins with characters returning to their hideout after the heist has failed. The schematic is still there, on the table, helping us to remember the back story, and improvise coherently. But now it is also scenography : turning whatever room we are in into the secret meeting-place of gangsters.
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Players prepare for In Fair Verona by participating in an intensive tango course. Continue reading Compound and holistic