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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…
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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: http://loki.pelilauta.fi/wordpress/?p=1842
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Sign-up Open for Halat Hisar (State of Siege)
Halat hisar, or State of Siege, has been covered on this site before. The sign-up for the Finnish/Palestinian cooperation has now opened: http://nordicrpg.fi/piiritystila/practical/sign-up/ Read more about the larp on their website: http://nordicrpg.fi/piiritystila/
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New Larp Festival in Palestina
Beit Byout is the first larp festival in Palestine! It will be held in Ramallah from Thursday, October 3 to Saturday October 5, 2013. This is what the organizers have to say: The Festival Beit Byout will be a festival with a number of larps from Palestine and the Nordic countries. In addition there will…
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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…
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Eirik Fatland on Safety
Famous larp theorist Eirik Fatland has written a piece about safe words and safety at larps. Here is the first paragraph of his text: So, there is a fairly standardized pair of safewords used at a lot of larps around here – “kutt” which means “Cut! Stop!” and “brems”, which literally translates as “brake!” and…
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Seekers Unlimited
Seekers Unlimited is an nonprofit organization that produces educational larps. It’s run by Aaron Vanek who’s active in the nordic larp scene. They have just released a video showcasing some of their work:
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The Verge Covering The Monitor Celestra
American tech site The Verge has written av The Monitor Celestra, a large scale Nordic style larp played in Sweden this spring. Check it out! http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/3/4391736/real-life-battlestar-galactica-larp-could-be-coming-to-america
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State of Siege – A Palestinian-Finnish larp project
Last August the larp Till Death Do us Part was organized as a cooperation between Norwegian and Palestian larp designers. It was the first bigger Palestian larp project and since then many projects has has happened in and in connection to the emerging Palestinian larp community.