A very interesting video report from a Polish larp inspired by The Hunger Games. It’s in polish but with full English subtitles.
Category: Documentation
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Book Review: Larps from the Factory
Danish larper and larp designer Oliver Nøglebæk has written a review of the larp script collection book Larps from the Factory.
Here is an excerpt from the review:
I know how much work the creators put into making this book and it shows. It is well written and consistent, which is extra impressive considering the huge number of people who actually wrote the larps in the book. It is also lovely to see a book that both celebrates a strong tradition of larpwriting and provides new opportunities to rerun the games or take them apart for use in new projects. It is definitely at in the top of my list of “most useful books on larp.” And together with the Nordic Larp book for the pretty pictures of big larps, I think we’re very well covered when it comes to approachable reading material to introduce the scope of norp to outsiders.
Read the complete review on his blog:
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Halat Hisar Photo Report
Larper and talented photographer Tuomas Puikkonen has posted his photos from the larp Halat Hisar (State of Siege).
Check them out here:
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KOLA 2013 Larp Conference Publication
Polish larp has reached a milestone: Very first international publication from this years KOLA conference now in english!
Please take a moment to browse through it, as it is a big step for polish larp and a huge effort on their part to make their scene available to the international larpers.
You can find the publication here:
http://issuu.com/wielosfer/docs/kola13-publicationYou can read about next years KOLA conference on their website:
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Report from H.P. Lovecraft Horror Larp Terra Incognita
Swedish larper Petter Karlsson has written a report from the HP Lovecraft themed horror larp Terra Incognita (Sweden, April 2013)
Here is a short video report to complement the longer text report:
Read the whole report here:
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PanoptiCorp 2013 Mini Documentary
UK based video production company Cosmic Joke has produced a mini documentary about the Danish 2013 re-run of the Norwegian 2003 larp PanoptiCorp.
Here is what they had to say about the video:
PanoptiCorp is originally a Nordic larp from 2003, which was re-imagined in 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It’s a satirical larp about an advertising agency, where players take on the roles of agency employees, pitching ideas to everything from an African dictator wanting an image makeover to an earnest businessman who wants to sell adult diapers. This documentary was produced by Cosmic Joke, as part of their feature length LARP documentary, Treasure Trapped.
For more info on the 2013 run of PanoptiCorp, see the event website:
http://www.rollespilsfabrikken.dk/panopticorpYou can also read this summary of the larp by Petter Karlsson which includes comments by the organizers:
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The Larp Factory Book Pre-Order
You can now pre-order The larp Factory Book through their IndieGoGo campaign. This is how they present the project themselves:
The Larpfactory Book Project will be a collection of 23 Norwegian ready-to-play larpscripts, written in English, and a website containing game materials and videos showing all methods and techniques mentioned in the book. The larps have all been run in The Larp Factory in Oslo and/or Trondheim – loosely organized networks that have been putting up low threshold stand-alone larps regularly for the last four years, and inspired larpers in other European cities to do the same. The book contains everything from relationship dramas, time travel dramas, existential dramas, teenage angst, murder mysteries to straight out comedies.
One really cool thing is that they’re giving you the option to buy one copy and give one copy away to a larper in a country where the price is too steep for most people.
Read more and order the book here:
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Kapo Documentary
A documentary about the Danish 2011 larp Kapo has been released on Youtube. This is what the author has to say about it:
The larp KAPO was held in Copenhagen in 2011. It was a larp about dehumanization, camps and values. This is the video documenting the project. It is made by Edith Tvede.
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Reports From the 2013 Larpwriter Summer School
Finnish blog Loki has posted a report in three parts from the 2013 Larp Writer Summer School
Read them over at Loki:
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Nordic Style Battlestar Galactica Larp in the US
American larpwrite Shoshana Kessock has written a report from a Battlestar Galactica larp she took part in writing and organizing at a recent convention. Here is a small excerpt from the text:
Tales of the Rising Star was an ambitious idea inspired by the amazing work done by the Monitor Celestra team overseas and fantastic full-immersion games like PST Productions Terrorwerks. The notion was trying to design a convention game inside the confines of a ballroom setting that would harken to the Celestra’s immersive atmosphere through prop-building and a focus on more freeform roleplaying styles. Players would get the chance to play one of five groups of characters aboard the Rising Star, a medical ship in the Colonial Fleet, as it escapes from the devastating nuclear attack on the Twelve Colonies of Kobol. Officers, Marines, Engineers, Medical Officers, Scientists and Civilians would work together to keep the ship from being destroyed as they dodged Cylon ships, tricky jumps, and of course internal pressure as they try to decide if they’ll join the ragtag fleet of Commander Adama or go their own way.
Read the whole report here:
http://shoshanakessock.com/2013/07/11/so-say-we-all-dexcon-2013-gets-some-bsg/