Year: 2020
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Sleeping Areas, Off-Game Areas, and the Black/White Ribbon Metatechnique
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The black/white ribbon metatechnique, as used at Libertines (2020), to signal if you want play in your sleeping area or not.
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Beauty in Larp
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What makes a thing beautiful to do? In this text Jaakko Stenros and James Lórien MacDonald explore a general aesthetic theory for larp.
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Labor and Play
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Have you gone to a larp requiring more work than your day job? Have you done work in a larp and been compensated with fictional resources rather than money?
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The Paradox of Inclusivity
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Trying to provide a clearer vision of what inclusivity does, and can, mean; as well as offer practical advice to help us build more inclusive communities.
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Wyrding the Self
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Wyrding the self is the sustained effort to decolonize your body from the mythical norm, and begin the process of identity alteration.
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Sceneing and Storying
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The experiences we make in larping are collective. However, no two players share the same exact experience, even when playing in the same scene together.
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Ensemble Play
This article draws insights from different ensemble-driven art forms, and demonstrate how ensemble skills facilitate better play in larp.
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Know Yourself
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Once you understand what you can and can’t do, want and don’t want to do, it becomes easier to have good larp experiences and to co-create them with others.
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Emotions as Skilled Work
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This text is focused on the social and cultural aspects of emotion work and on our understanding of the skills involved in the context of larp.
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Metareflection
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When larping, we are often aiming to feel immersed. This article shows how other internal processes are active as well when we are roleplaying.