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The Immortal Legacy
A documentation piece on the larp Gothic by Avalon Larp Studios. Based on true events featuring Romantic poets in a story of gothic horror.
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Slow Larp Manifesto
There are larps that are not action-heavy, that don’t try to offer maximum amounts of drama or complicated plots. Lack of action or drama in a larp is often regarded as a design fault. We think Slow Larp should be recognized as a valid design choice that deserves more attention.
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Adding Larp to a Drama Teacher’s Curriculum – Year 1
Lindsay Wolgel is an professional actor and edu-larp enthusiast. She is currently the middle school drama teacher at a charter school in NYC. Learn about the ways she incorporated larp into her curriculum this past year, via in-class parties, a classroom podcast, creative writing prompts and more!
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The Spirit of Christmas
Midwinter Revisited is a larp about a sweatshop where elves are forced to endure long hours of tedious work while having to pretend they’re happy.
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Living the Dream: Larp as a Transformative Practice
Larp extends beyond wistful thinking and idle daydreams and starts the process of turning ideas into a physical manifestation.
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Imagining a Zero Carbon Future: Environmental Impact of Player Travel as a Design Choice
Addressing a convenient and uncomfortable blindspot of the community: aviation emissions in international larp.
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The Chinese Hotpot of Larp
After the explosive growth of the last five years, China now has the biggest larp business in the world. The emergence of pervasive games in China, the largest game market all over the world, was very fast and drastic. The most popular examples, escape rooms (ERs), and murder mystery games (MMG) called jubensha (剧本杀, script…
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Description of Larps using Textual Parameters
At The Smoke, larps submitted for the programme are described by answering a set of questions about various aspects of their design.
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Wielding the Magic of Anticipation
Maximizing the emotional impact of anticipation for better larp play.
